Indeed, high-risk and expensive tasks would be likely to come under greater scrutiny if they were contested on the basis of quality, efficacy and cost, not professional titles (as illustrated by the case of the podiatric surgeons and natural therapies below).
But scrums aren't dangerous if packed properly, if policed, if contested by players – forwards – schooled in scrummaging.
The unquestioning use of mental illness diagnoses as if they are un-contested and capture meaningful and invariant individual-level diseases is difficult to justify, and may have harmful consequences.
That much was known, if still contested.
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?
Even if a contested Republican convention selects another nominee, the party has been badly hurt.
That would mean more financial hardship, less access to health care, and -- according to a large, if occasionally contested, body of research -- higher mortality.
Smith replied that in his interpretation Rhodesia was required to keep Whitehall informed, but prior British concurrence was not necessary; if Britain contested this, the Prime Minister said, then surely the 1957 entrustment had never meant anything.
