Sentence examples for through contestation from inspiring English sources

The problem is not that norms such as the responsibility to protect are empty but that they evolve not just through consensus, but also through contestation; not just with the excitement of success but also with the emotional responses to failures to protect.

Indeed, even the general strike on 13 December was due to the channeling of economic grievances and political contestation through the Tunisian General Labor Union, in existence since 1946.

Part III (chapters eight through ten)—"The contestation of electoral rights in the Member States of the European Union"—embarks on a very interesting analysis of the development of inclusive and exclusive voting rights in individual Member States as a result of immigration in western Europe and the breakup of the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia in central and eastern Europe.

It is how Britain's "living constitution", in Walter Bagehot's phrase, has emerged, through parliamentary grandstanding and contestation, and the process has provided good sport for those concerned.

She ethnographically explores this horizon, through forms of by-passing, contestation and surveillance.

This is the first election since independence where you have keen contestation and equally matched contestants.

When identity operates as a site of contestation, the channels through which it is mediated such as music and dance become sites of contestation themselves.

It can also mean proper, dig-deep contestations through which we test each other's ideas and in which we show ourselves willing to be uncomfortable as we ourselves are tested.