Sentence examples for contested region from inspiring English sources

For starters, water and land are in short supply in the heavily contested region and almonds are notoriously thirsty.

While there are proposals for casinos in Albany, Tyre and Nichols, the most hotly contested region is Orange County because it is so close to New York City.

KAMPALA, Uganda — More than 100 people have died in clashes over the last week in a hotly contested region of Sudan, authorities said Thursday.

Speaking to supporters in a state heavily dependent on the auto industry, Mr. Obama drew an explicit link between China's trade policies and the economic travails of voters in this closely contested region.

Of the 37 incidents that involved violence, 30 occurred in the dry and bitterly contested region formed by Israel and its neighbours, where the upper end of the Jordan river was hotly disputed, and skirmished over, before Israel took control in the 1967 war.

Most importantly, Bayh would help attract votes for Obama in the battleground Midwest, the most hotly contested region in the country.

After hearing for months that they were on the verge of losing control of the House, Democrats said the decisive victory by Mark Critz, a Democrat, in the blue-collar district formerly represented by the late John P. Murtha, showed they remain competitive in the kinds of hotly contested regions Republicans need to win to have a real chance of capturing the House.

The outcome, in a district that Senator John F. Kerry carried for the Democrats in the 2004 presidential race and Senator John McCain for the Republicans four years later, gave Democrats confidence that they can hold off Republicans in hotly contested regions, despite the difficult political climate for them and President Obama.

Accounts were also opened from the United States, the United Kingdom, and contested regions elsewhere in the Middle East.

Her stories include one of the most detailed accounts of the mechanisms by which Russians fought in the contested regions of east Ukraine.

The resolution also called for both nations to remove their forces from Abyei, arguably the most iconic of numerous contested regions along the border.