Sentence examples for disputed ground from inspiring English sources

Because today's religious right is determined to read the present back into the past, historians who write about faith and the founding find themselves on disputed ground.

Demand was made by the railroad company for possession of that portion of the quarter section which was within the granted right of way, and, upon non-compliance, an action of ejectment was brought in a court of the state of Minnesota to recover possession of the disputed ground.

It constantly is necessary to reconcile and to adjust different constitutional principles, each of which would be entitled to possession of the disputed ground but for the presence of the others, as we already have said that it is necessary to reconcile and to adjust different principles of the common law.

So they decided to hold on to disputed ground, and this led to further clashes.Eritrea, in its five years of independence, has been quick to pick fights: it has had shooting wars with both Yemen and Djibouti and vows to overthrow the Sudan government.

A more ambitious tactic would be to capture ground on Pakistan's side of the Line of Control (LoC) to interdict terrorists before they get across.Both strategies would have the virtue of confining the hostilities to what Pakistan calls "Azad (free) Kashmir", which it regards as disputed ground rather than as an integral part of its own territory.

They had been arrested for demonstrating in support of their leader, Alassane Ouattara, who may be banned from next year's presidential election on disputed grounds of nationality.

A mortgagee's claim to the property or sale proceeds, for example, may be disputed on the ground that the mortgage is not genuine.

Inasmuch as the right to contract is not absolute, but may be subjected to the restraints demanded by the safety and welfare of the state, we do not think that conclusion, in its application to the power to amend, can be disputed on the ground of infraction of the fourteenth amendment.

The appellant has been listed for several years in Annex I to the contested regulation and still the Community institutions refuse to grant him an opportunity to dispute the grounds for his continued inclusion on the list.

Moreover, he disputes the grounds of the value of expressivity given above.

The role of the press in Watergate is much-disputed ground.