Mansel admitted that pollution had occurred but stressed it had been unintentional and contested the source, which he said was 'the draining of dirty water from the main yard and from the road into the brook' and blocked pipework.
Political stories were often contested, from sources with a potential interest in particular outcomes, and/or were outright falsehoods.
An energetic anti-Thatcher counterculture, from the start of the Greenham Common peace camp in 1981 to the 1990 poll tax riots that helped bring her down, meant that her dominance was almost always contested, rarely a source of apathy.
British sources contested that second-rank status.
The 36 voided elections will be contested again next week, a source said today.
WASHINGTON — TransCanada said Monday that it would reapply for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canadian oil sands formations in Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, assuring that the fiercely contested project will remain a source of political heat throughout the presidential campaign.
Many researchers [ 11, 12, 14, 15, 18- 28] have contested that the most likely source of Campylobacter to broiler flocks is the environment (i.e. horizontal transmission).
In 1992 a US Senate report on Asian organised crime – which has been contested for not citing its sources – listed Heung as a senior figure on a Sun Yee On organisation chart, explaining the group was "linked to a wide variety of criminal activities, including heroin trafficking and control of the entertainment industry in Hong Kong".
What they apparently contested was songwriting credit, a common source of tension in bands, and one that Wareham describes well.
It's a take that is both contested and corroborated by our other source.
Its burgeoning domestic markets are fiercely contested, so its firms want new sources of advantage like Western brands and marketing expertise.
