Sentence examples for contested past from inspiring English sources

Next week, Zochrot, whose activists include Jews and Palestinians, will connect the bitterly contested past with the hi-tech present.

The four civic crises belong to the available, still contested past, the one that hangs around and starts living arguments.

Scott Richard St Louis, 'The Contested Past (and Hopeful Future?) of the Historical Profession,' USIH Blog (21 June 2015): http://s-usih.org/2015/06/the-contested-past-and-hopeful-future-of-the-historical-profession.html.html

While the UN claimed that U.S. arrears totaled $1.2 billion, the U.S. government disputed that amount because of contested past debts.

Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past makes a unique and timely contribution to the transitional justice field.

Nothing Stable under Heaven reflects on the contested past, the turbulent present, and the unpredictable future, examining how individual and collective voices can be heard in an uncertain world.

Australia's Mr Abbott has in the past contested the basic fact of global warming.

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.

In the short term, for the next general election – which will still be contested under First Past the Post – my personal view is that there is potential in considering local grassroots electoral pacts where progressive candidates are standing, so as to give us the best chance of beating the Tories in 2020.

Traditionally a rivalry between the city's local inhabitants, who supported Mohun Bagan, and immigrants, who supported East Bengal, matches between the two have been fiercely contested for the past 89 years.

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.