Sentence examples for contested land from inspiring English sources

"The adults of course knew that the land we were on was contested land or had been contested land," Trillo told me.

His father's tales of unremitting labour and contested land fell on ears better attuned to the music of Michael Jackson.

In a Solomonic judgment, the United Nations voted to divide the contested land into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

Here, it introduces the idea of displacement — a nomadic existence on contested land — and the threat of containment, if not imprisonment.

He has also found much more talk among Zionist leaders -- as well as among British and Jordanian leaders -- of the desirability of transferring Palestinians off the contested land to avoid conflict.

All along the roads in this small, bitterly contested land, drivers encounter reminders of how divided, and entangled, Kosovo's ethnic groups remain, 10 years after the territory declared its independence from Serbia, its neighbor to the north.

By including different voices from activists, practitioners and scholars, the symposium "Contested Lands: Territory, Resources, and Identity in Contemporary Canada" will analyze and discuss the complexity of the current debate within Canada around two key themes resources and territories.

It was also expected to consolidate Israel's rule over the contested lands of Judea and Samaria.

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands.

In real life, to schoolchildren as well as to adults, the American army is seen and heard everywhere in the capital, from helicopters whirring through the air (as drones do above more contested lands) to the concrete barriers and concertina-wired sandbags that have turned the streets of central Kabul into tunnels.

Accordingly, it appears that most of them have given up on the peace process: Only 38percentt say a peace deal should still be sought with the Palestinians, and two-thirds of Jewish Israelis don't consider the West Bank — the contested lands conquered by Israel in the 1967 war — to be occupied territories.