Sentence examples for contested in the past from inspiring English sources

These decisions -- part of the enshrined Swiss idea that the people decide -- have rarely been contested in the past.

The issue of what to do with refugees who land on Britain's bases in Cyprus has been hotly contested in the past, and a group of Iraqi Kurds who landed there in 1998 have never left.

Murray is extremely unlikely to catch either Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal in the world rankings before the end of the year, but having won two and reached the final of the other Grand Slam he has contested in the past 12 months, he has proven his class at the ultimate level.

"Any problem I have," she said, "I call him and he takes care of it". Gurule, who is running for reelection, said council elections have not been contested in the past because "we are doing a fairly good job.... Most of the people seem to be happy". Others say the town hall meetings are examples of a machine culture that is meant to keep the same people in power.

Memory and history never belong solely in the past; they are contested in the here and now, as freighted with politics as any other aspect of the present.

The pole vault is not contested in the Paralympics.

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

In most democracies, elections are hotly contested in the media.

The LRT has been hotly contested in the local media.

This issue was hotly contested in the years that followed.

Patents on genes have been repeatedly contested in the courts.