Sentence examples for disputed status from inspiring English sources

The city's disputed status led to carefully negotiated security arrangements.

First is the disputed status of the territory.

The varied nomenclature reflects the island's uncertain status and protean, uncertain and disputed status.

Mr Geelani says protests will continue until India accepts the "disputed" status of Kashmir.

Political difficulties over China's own accession to the WTO are also emerging, because of the disputed status of Taiwan.

A deal on Kashmir's disputed status is unlikely, as is a change in Pakistan's handling of terrorist suspects.

And Israeli negotiators are talking about postponing any final Palestinian declaration of independence for several years more, as discussions continue on security issues, the repatriation of refugees, and the heatedly disputed "final status" of Jerusalem.

This moral sentiment will be tested next month when a slew of cases involving cycle couriers in London dispute their status as self-employed contractors.

Still, it would take a brave critic to dispute the status of "Some Like It Hot," just as it would take a historian of the highest subtlety and resourcefulness to explain, before a tribunal of his peers, why the most entertaining cultural spectacle of the last hundred years has been, by common consent, a pair of full-grown American males wearing falsies.

The fact is that there is no brighter object than Pluto at a similar distance away from us, so there was no reason to dispute its status.

The first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from 1871 to 1875; scholars dispute its status as a major league.