Sentence examples for contested visions from inspiring English sources

Portrait photography in 1865 was no longer innocent about national bonds and national belonging — war changed the politics of portraiture by showing the nation conflicting and contested visions of itself.

Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and remote frontier, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world.

The paper contributes to notions of 'hybrid' historical geographies of irrigation by focusing on contested visions for irrigation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

Through 16 generations, American ideas of liberty and freedom have grown larger, deeper, more diverse and yet more inclusive in these collisions of contested visions.

The importance of this is that perceptions of justness are powerful determinants of human behaviour and, consequently, many environmental conflicts arise from contested visions of what constitutes 'just' environmental management.

While the two sides contested their visions of party destiny, an already fraying unity seemed to disintegrate.

The current debate over capital punishment is no longer focused on contested moral visions about taking a life but rather on the effectiveness, accuracy and cost of the agonizingly detailed, superficially rational, regulatory universe the Court has brought into being.

Our findings suggest the hypothesis that the gap between the enthusiasm of policymakers and technologists for telehealth and telecare and their more limited uptake in practice may be at least partially explained by this contested organising vision.

"People would ask, 'Hey, why do you guys have an orange?'" Now the City Council will decide this month among hotly contested bids and competing visions of how to honor history and a type of architecture that gave the world doughnut-shaped doughnut shops, elephant-inspired carwashes and hot-dog stands in buns.

Upgrading the grid, to beyond Germany as well as within it, would reduce waste and the risk of instability.But the vision is contested.

These contested spaces often reflect competing visions for the city.