Sentence examples for had been contested for from inspiring English sources

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian troops continued to pound the suburbs of Damascus on Friday, as fighting raged in Aleppo and as rebels in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour reported seizing an armory that had been contested for days.

The South China Sea has been contested for centuries.

In Britain the senior Camrose Trophy has been contested for several decades.

And there remains something particularly fraught about the whiteness of Italian-Americans, which has been contested for centuries.

There are at least a dozen varieties of motor sports extant in the United States, some of them having been contested for more than a century.

"We know there would have been bulldozers at our site," said Carolyn Ratcliffe, an officer of the neighborhood association that runs La Plaza Cultural, a large garden at East Ninth Street and Avenue C in Manhattan that has been contested for most of its 25 years.

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".

The idea of more oil drilling in Alaska -- part of the recommendations put forward by an energy task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001 -- has been contested for years on the ground that it could harm the region's environment.

Add two more bans (for left back Fábio Coentrão and winger Ángel di María) to the injuries to the defenders Pepe and Marcelo, and it becomes easy to understand why Real would blood a teenager in a match of this intensity — a match that has been contested for more than a century and stands at 88 victories for Madrid, 87 for Barça and 48 draws.

However, who may be identified as Melayu and what it means to be Melayu has been contested for many decades.

The concept of self-esteem has been around since about the 1940s and has been contested for almost as long.