Sentence examples for contested regional from inspiring English sources

Basque nationalists won a bitterly contested regional election today, crushing the hopes of mainstream Spanish parties to seize the initiative in the country's troubled northern region.

It accuses Washington of abandoning its historical policy of neutrality on contested regional maritime claims after America gave its full-blooded support to Japan ruling that its military forces could fight abroad again.

Bisley reviews the EAS' rationales and its progression over the past twelve years, but argues that its potential could also be frustrated by "Asia's increasingly contested regional order".

After all the happy parity talk based on hotly contested regionals, the final pits irascible Geno against pit bull Pat, the fourth such occasion in the last 10 years.

The TMVP that runs the eastern provincial council and many local councils contested the regional elections together with President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling coalition.

How can someone with such a retiring manner lead an organization undergoing a hotly contested reformation, riddled with regional rivalries and subject to competing demands from the great powers and the nations of the developing world?

He shared the Spanish Main with Jean Lafitte until 1823, when he became the sole major threat in the hemisphere until his death, a title that would only be contested by lesser or regional freebooters such as Charles Gibbs, Mansel Alcantra (also spelled Alcántara) or Samuel Hall Lord.

(UK): "Regional power and contested hierarchy: Ethiopia, an 'imperfect hegemon' in the Horn of Africa". (September 2018) By Sonia Le Gouriellec.

So is the recent fate of the hotly contested Statute of Autonomy, a regional constitution negotiated between Catalonia and the national government in 2006.

As the midterm elections draw near, it is becoming increasingly clear that control of the Senate, where the Democrats have a one-vote margin, may hinge on what happens in a few closely contested, sparsely populated states where regional concerns outweigh big issues like the economy, taxes, corporate malfeasance and even Iraq.

Forty constituency seats and 20 regional seats were contested.