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But the declarations made at the meeting did not say how forests should be protected, and this is now being hotly contested.

Clearly, only the biggest and most flexible companies are going to be able to compete in such a rich and hotly-contested market.

The hotly contested home-affairs ministry, which oversees the police, is theoretically to be shared between the MDC and Zanu-PF.

And legal recognition of our families has become one of the most hotly contested issues on the national, state and local political scenes.

These as-yet undefined spaces will no doubt be hotly contested and fought over.

Third is the award for Most Aggravating On Hold Message, which in 2008 was as hotly contested as ever.

All 10 registered crews will be in action and a preview on this hotly contested category will appear next week.

The elections promise to be the most hotly contested during the Kurds' current golden era of autonomy.

Mr. Koolhaas's design won a hotly contested competition for the CCTV contract involving some of the world's most prestigious architects.

In 2009 China began to expand its claim to the South China Sea, a claim hotly contested by its neighbours.

The most hotly contested award is always for the silliest job title.

The most hotly contested seats were for Western Europe. Austria and Turkey beat out Iceland for the two seats allocated to this region.

The idea of opening up the domestic retail market to foreign retailers has been hotly contested over the past several years.

Th is hotly contested segment represents a massive 20 percent of the total global market.

The World Cup may be the planet's most hotly contested sports championship, but it's not an event that rewards chest thumping.

Welcome back to Old Trafford for what I think will be another hotly contested season.

Of course, the details of MRV are hotly contested, especially by China, whose concerns about sovereignty almost sank the entire deal.

Russia's presidential contest stands in sharp contrast to America's hotly-contested presidential primaries.

As smartphones become more popular, the market for advertising on the devices is becoming more hotly contested.

The abortion debate came at the end of two hotly contested days in the House of Commons.

The interpretation and applicability of the law to digital realm has become hotly contested.

of the financial minister is hotly contested among politicians.

But the dotted line that marks out this ambition on Chinese maps is hotly contested by just about everyone else.

The goal is to clear insurgents from the hotly contested Helmand River Valley before the nation's August 20 presidential election.

If a Sino-American war is inevitable, it is now generally assumed that a hotly contested South China Sea may be its epicenter.

Such jobs are hotly contested, despite the clubs' poor financial state.

But whether journalism is a profession is a hotly contested question.

In the hotly contested US corporate loan market in the 1980s, foreign banks claimed a market share of half or more.

"On many of the issues the parties share common ground. On others, the facts are hotly contested. "

on those hotly contested moral and religious questions.

This seat is being hotly contested by the politicians.

The French Senate has approved by a comfortable majority a hotly contested plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

The two teams well-matched, and the game was hotly contested.

It will now be hotly contested again.

In the world of aid agencies, this notion has been hotly contested.

But the most hotly contested point is the nature of Larsson's relationship with his family.

Large buy-out firms have all kinds of reasons to want to avoid hotly contested auctions for big companies.

"I'm sure this market will be pretty hotly contested in China, " Mr Ji says.

that at least in some of the hotly contested debates