Sentence examples for it was contested by from inspiring English sources

Later it was contested by Venetians, Serbs, and Turks.

Subsequently it was contested by the Italians, Albanians, and Turks, to whom it succumbed about 1430.

Although the positivist mood prevailed at least until World War I, it was contested by a rival current of thought that from the 1890s onward began to assert itself.

But it still came as a bit of a shock when the Wilsons made what they thought was a routine move to register the trademark of their hot product — a flat pretzel snack called Pretzel Crisps — and it was contested by none other than Frito-Lay, the 800-pound gorilla of the snack food market owned by PepsiCo.

For example, football fans can no longer dream of jumping the hoardings and running the game from the centre circle, pie in hand, Jan Molby style, while rugby used to be a whole lot more engaging when it was contested by pot-bellied policemen and half-cut solicitors with anger management issues from the Borders.

This doctrine, however, was disapproved elsewhere It was contested by the government of the United States; and was renounced by other states.

It is contested by national teams and is organized by the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF).

It is contested by the world's best players - Sinclair, USA forward Abby Wambach, Japan's Homare Sawa and Brazil's Marta were all here.

It is contested by hermeneutic (interpretive) difficulties in the categorization of the different Taoist schools, sects and movements.

It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships, along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country.

It is contested by 32 clubs, which in the 2014 15 season includes the 30 members of the Scottish Championship, Scottish League One and Scottish League Two.