Sentence examples for occupied contested from inspiring English sources

More precisely, they featured displacement, occupied contested territory, wrestled with their characters' slippery identities.

She knew that trans individuals occupied contested ground, and that there were people who would argue that, for three decades, she had enjoyed the benefit of male privilege.

Dr. Dutkowsky is well aware that he occupies contested territory, both intellectually and theologically.

There is a real risk that the North will now simply occupy all contested border areas — and possibly the oil fields inside South Sudan — and refuse to leave unless pushed out.

"We are not occupying any contested area," said South Sudan's minister of information, Barnaba Marial Benjamin.

— In a peaceful end to a treetop standoff, four protesters descended from a redwood at University at California, Berkeley, on Tuesday, after 21 months of occupying a contested campus grove.

In the October 7th Oral History Workshop at Butler Library Avner Gvaryahu, a member of Breaking the Silence (BTS), presented a book of collected oral histories from soldiers doing just that; questioning the ongoing military strategy of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) as it continues to occupy the contested zones that tie Israel and Palestine together.

One possible reason for the insensitivity to stem location is plasticity, the ability of trees to lean and/or to adjust crown development so as to occupy less contested spaces ([Longuetaud et al. 2013]; [Muth and Bazzaz 2003]; [Rouvinen and Kuuluvainen 1997]; [Schröter et al. 2012]; [Seidel et al. 2011]; [Stoll and Schmid 1998]; [Umeki 1995]).

Because what's happening in Baghdad and other contested or occupied cities – not just the surveillance, but the militarisation too – is going to happen here.

Why is it that of the three hundred and nineteen million people in the US, the presidency is often occupied or at least contested by a handful of families - with names such as Kennedy, Romney, Bush, and Clinton?

The ownership of the Greek occupied eastern Aegean islands was contested by the Ottoman Empire which claimed them as their own.