Sentence examples for contested figure from inspiring English sources

Levine is preëminent among American conductors, yet he remains a curiously contested figure.

For most of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed — a highly contested figure, but let's call it a million years — it has made good adaptive sense to be fearful, cautious, timid.

Taylor Mill may therefore be destined to remain an essentially contested figure in the history of philosophy.

Won't that also make him, inevitably, a more flawed and contested figure?

It is a contested figure, but historians now point to well over a million Africans dying during the middle passage.

But even more than these brief uproars, what once made Steiner such a contested figure was the question of just what type of bearer and interrogator of high culture he was.

In the latest episode on Sunday, the United States military contested figures released by The A.P. on Iraqi casualties in July.

The players seem willing to accept a 50-50 split of revenue, enough to make the teams profitable as a group even by the clubs' own contested figures.

Despite the extenuating circumstances outlined earlier, in my view the newspaper should have found a way of publishing a letter or some other response from David Elstein about the contested figures.

Few events in American history have generated as much commentary as the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, and George Armstrong Custer has become one of those contested figures who have been mythologized to the point of caricature: glorified as a romantic figure of frontier individualism and reviled as a glory-seeking avatar of genocidal hatred.

The Fed has contested this figure, but in Friday's report, Bloomberg repeated the assertion that borrowers were left better off than they had been before.