"contesting the fact" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to introduce an argument against an accepted truth. For example, you could say: "Contesting the fact that smoking is bad for your health, some scientists argue that cigarettes can provide certain health benefits."
They did so not by contesting the fact that the gag order stymies competition — for that was impossible to disprove.
Most often, the protests against recent changes aren't about what's outlined in the Bologna vision; rather, they are rather "contesting the fact that the changes have not been thought through, planned properly, and funded properly," Crosier says.
In other words, it seems that Dan Wagner is contesting the fact that Shiny Media is not in administration, when a company he owns, Cansas Digital Ventures, is now part owner of all the old Shiny Media assets.
And what does that tell him about the intel that led to his capture in the first place?" And based upon what Mickum knows -- and can divulge -- about the legal filings in the case, it would seem that the government is, indeed, not contesting the fact that Abu Zubaydah was not a member of al Qaeda.
In January, an association of research institutes, of which the Hutchinson Center is a member, wrote the Pulitzer board, attaching a list of material contesting the facts and context in the series.
Mulligan said Hasan appeared to be taking on a "tried and true" defense strategy of not contesting the facts but rather offering an alternative reason about why they occurred.
However, while we believed when we filed our most recent compliance report in December 2011 that we were distributing the BCS software to all relevant PCs as required, we learned recently that we've missed serving the BCS software to the roughly 28 million PCs running Windows 7 SP1". Almunia agreed that Microsoft does not appear to be contesting the facts.
"With the convictions and pleas of guilty, we hope Suffolk County Council will not be contesting the facts of the matter and we can get on with discussing the level of compensation for each person.
In his exhortation, he doesn't contest the fact that global capitalism is uniquely productive.
The State does not contest the fact that the prosecutor's remarks violated the constitutional rule announced in Griffin.
M. HERZOG: You therefore contest the fact that the laws on forced labor were issued under pressure by you?
