contestation

Example Sentences

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Yet most are likely unaware of a new phenomenon occurring across college campuses, in which far-right organizers have sought to use them as a place for contestation, recruitment, and protest/counter protest.

From Salon

Its proximity to rich soil, with extensive olive groves and vineyards, and its role as a juncture between the Mediterranean, Europe and Asia, has also made it the subject of frequent territorial contestation.

From Seattle Times

But the postcolonial world, to quote a man more serious than most participants at Documenta 15, is not “a vulgar state of endless contestations and anomie, chaos and unsustainability.”

From New York Times

"We can expect more geopolitical contestation in the Asia-Pacific," he said, adding that Singapore would try its best to avoid being caught up in the "major power rivalry" .

From Reuters

"People are blind to the fact that this is just a contestation of power among the elite, and once it's over, the elite get together whether they won or not," he added.

From BBC