Sentence examples for contested in terms from inspiring English sources

What we are, perhaps distinctively, is a nation where law is "essentially contested" in terms of rights, including the right to touch an inner thigh and say it was an outer.

While certain economic effects of having a HSR connection have been clearly identified and are subject to little criticism, other supposed benefits have been contested in terms of their size, their duration, and whether they occur automatically [23, 56, 87, 113, 115].5 This ambivalence is obviously an issue.

A 2011 analysis by Andrew Reeves of Washington University in St Louis, which examined nearly 1,000 presidential declarations between 1981 and 2004, shows that such declarations are twice as likely in states that are closely contested in electoral terms as in those that are not.

More than the beauty of the walk, there's the beauty of the towers — a beauty that was, and perhaps still is, contested in architectural and urbanistic terms, and which Zemeckis, in the face of any such objections, affirms and displays throughout the movie.

More than the beauty of the walk, there's the beauty of the towers a beauty that was, and perhaps still is, contested in architectural and urbanistic terms, and which Zemeckis, in the face of any such objections, affirms and displays throughout the movie.

This is not to shift blame but to acknowledge that forms of traditionalism and fundamentalism can in a sense be modern, even late-modern, across large parts of the world -- and that they can and should be contested in modern, usually secular terms without any loss of cultural or religious identity.

He was re-acclaimed in 1893 and 1894 before stepping aside voluntarily after his third term, never having been contested in an election.

The pole vault is not contested in the Paralympics.

That was contested in the brutal heat of the first week.

And the cabins are hotly contested in divorces.

Often the benefits are contested in addition to the risks.