Sentence examples for was disputed for from inspiring English sources

The governor's race in Washington State in 2004 was disputed for eight months.

Although the constitutionality of the division of the province was disputed for some years, Papua and West Irian Jaya were officially recognized as separate entities by Megawati's successor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

By the Treaty of Al-Ṭāʾif in 1934, it was given to Saudi Arabia, but the boundary was disputed for decades by Yemen (Sanaa) and later by the united Yemen state until the two countries finalized demarcation of the border.

The location of the history and legacy of Wimbledon F.C., as well as the honours won by the club, was disputed for five years after the relocation's confirmation on 28 May 2002.

Exactly what happened in Beit Hanoun will be disputed for some time, most likely.

However, the effects of even low doses of BPA have been disputed for years.

However, the ownership of these valuable islands has been disputed for decades, with Japan, Taiwan and China all claiming they are rightfully theirs.

The term is disputed, for sometimes it is applied to blundering, unheroic protagonists (Schweik in The Good Soldier Schweik, say).

He noted the soundness of the reports — of the 50 million the company issued last year, only 3,600 were disputed for inaccuracy.

They sign a declaration of good intentions, the wording of which has been disputed for days by their Sherpas before the actual gathering.

The play's provenance has been disputed for three centuries; the eighteenth-century writer Lewis Theobald claimed to have adapted it from the lost Shakespeare and Fletcher work "Cardenio".