Sentence examples for contested said from inspiring English sources

"It's still being very vigorously contested," said Barbara G. Quackenbos, a lawyer whose firm is one of several handling the plaintiff cases.

"Obviously, this is an election that's going to be very tightly contested," said State Senator Bernard F. Kenny Jr., the Democratic committee chairman in Hudson County.

"Any presidential visit to Israel is highly sensitive because Jerusalem is the crucible of three world religions, and everything about the Holy Land is highly symbolic and usually contested," said Martin S. Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel.

"It would be a disaster to have an election whose legitimacy was contested," said Noah Feldman, an assistant professor of law at New York University, who was a constitutional law adviser to Mr. Bremer earlier this year.

"This is a rear-guard action by governments which are not used to these assets being contested," said Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

"We are not afraid of them [sanctions] being contested," said Bell. "We fully anticipate there will be challenges.

Ms. Soltesz-Benetton had initially sought a recall of the issue, which the magazine's lawyers had contested, saying it could violate the First Amendment.

The distinction between public and private — where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted, the ways that it is embraced or contested — says much about a culture.

The defense had also argued during jury selection at the first trial that prosecutors used race as a basis to try to exclude a black woman from the jury, an assertion that prosecutors vigorously contested, saying they sought to exclude her because she was a social worker who might be predisposed to the defense.

"The race to speechify AOL was significant and hotly contested," says Yankee Group's Gurley.

The fact that we don't know the exact number, because the very data (both public and private) are politicized and contested, says a lot.