Sentence examples for widely contended from inspiring English sources

The presence on the jury of oligarchs businessmen widely contended to be the ruling force in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union incurred skepticism regarding the fairness of the selection process.

"It is widely contended, and not just by radical outsiders, that most Home Office-funded research is: almost entirely atheoretical fact gathering ; narrowly focussed – generally on a recent spending or administrative initiative or piece of legislation; and designed to be, and in its final product invariably is, policy-friendly" (Morgan and Hough 2007: 54).

Although this security move has been widely contended by everyone from flight attendants to victims of 9/11, these potentially dangerous items will join a long list of questionable carry-on cargo.

Though the zone blitz and other schemes that LeBeau created have been widely copied, Tomlin contends that there is a big advantage in having the guy who wrote the play running the play.

Entire fields of study, from traditional literary analysis to political and military history, are simply not widely taught anymore, Mr. Johnson contended: "Even students who want to learn don't have the opportunity because there are no specialists on the faculty to take courses from".

Similarly, Stewart found that that the definition of evidence varies widely among health practitioners and contended that it may be framed or constrained by the culture of a particular health service.

City officials contended that, with the police widely praised for exercising restraint during the protests, the demonstrators were deprived of bloody encounters and now sought to create an issue with allegations of jailhouse brutality.

They contended that slavery had not been, as widely portrayed, an inefficient system destined for collapse, with slaves living in virtual concentration camps and worked to death.

For years, he has been a prophet without honor in his own land, celebrated in the United States for his support after the Sept. 11 attacks, but widely disparaged at home for becoming, as his critics contended, "Bush's poodle".

Participatory foresight has also been recognized as a means to alleviate the widely discussed crisis of representative democracy and strengthen the contended legitimacy of established power mechanisms and structures.

But in an interview last week, Roberta Ahmanson, a member of the institute's board and the wife of Howard Ahmanson, a banking heir from California, contended that the institute's orthodoxy resonated more widely.