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  • noun Plural form of contestation.

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Examples

  • For an astute account of the way the heart becomes emblematic of and imbricated in contestations about

    Notes on 'Shelley's Pod People' 2005

  • Today, controversies continue to rage over the need for increased hydroelectric power versus energy conservation as well as protracted contestations over Native rights, mercury pollution, loss of wildlife habitat, and other forms of cultural and environmental disruption.

    The Crees of Northern Québec The Nag 2009

  • Like most places, if most Ivorians have jobs and the future looks prosperous, many of today's contestations over citizenship, ethnicity and religion would most likely diminish in intensity.

    Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern 2011

  • However it could be argued that the history of criminal justice agencies is replete with examples of contestations by the powerful forces headed by the markets and its media.

    Speech by Mnyamezeli Booi during debate on the President���s State of the Nation Address in the National Assembly 2008

  • "The meeting did not produce an agreement and the matter has been referred to the negotiators because of contestations over key ministries," Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for the Movement for Democratic

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • "Colour"; Jean-Étienne Montucla, Histoire des mathématiques: dans laquelle on rend compte de leurs progrès depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; où l'on expose le tableau & le développement des principales découvertes, les contestations qu'elles ont fait naître, et les principaux traits de la vie des mathématiciens les plus célèbre (Paris, 1758), 2: 62; Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ....

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Sexual awakening is also rather interesting ... as a site of cultural and gender contestations, negotating the different identities and affiliations of being Asian, American and a girl/woman ... and ultimately in finding and locating the self.

    Shirley Shines Sharon Bakar 2006

  • Histoire des mathématiques: Dans laquelle on rend compte de leurs progrès depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; où l'on expose le tableau & le développement des principales découvertes, les contestations qu'elles ont fait naître, & les principaux traits de la vie des mathématiciens les plus célèbre. 2 vols.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • The violence we see today is a result of these contestations

    Caste and ethnic Violence in India Shantanud 2007

  • "I have been a member of the ANC for more than 50 years and there have been many contestations in the past, but never has it been characterised by such a high level of acrimony," she told the Sunday

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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