Sentence examples for if contested from inspiring English sources

These two straight lines are the oldest (if contested) parts of Labrador's current land border.

Drafting only men would undoubtedly run aground if contested in court.

By increments, the BNP became a constant, if contested, fact of British municipal life.

If contested, this could lead to investor or supply chain problems or, in the worst case, extremely costly litigation.

But scrums aren't dangerous if packed properly, if policed, if contested by players – forwards – schooled in scrummaging.

All the facts are in; all the social science is long settled; the constitutional positions are clear, if contested, and the wiser way known and shared by mankind.

That much was known, if still contested.

Both major parties will be pleased that newly imposed spending limits - amounting to £15.8m each if they contested every one of the 659 parliamentary seats - are in force.

If its contested bid to build an aerial refueling tanker for the Air Force is successful, it will also shift production of its A330 cargo planes to Mobile, Ala., although that is not included in its new cost-cutting.

"Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts," Gilens and Page write: Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise.

The art world, for its part, is inclined to skewer certain groups although not others -- and, as during the Ofili brouhaha, it is fair to wonder: would the defenders of a work like Ms. Cox's react similarly if a contested image were of Martin Luther King rather than Jesus?