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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.

The exposure of the company files has contributed to Trafigura's climbdown after three years of bitterly contested legal battles.

Some of his teammates publicly contested his presence out of fear they could be infected if he were injured and bled during a game.

Lin contested the divorce, claiming that she refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night because she was too tired and was ill.

That story was quickly contested. No guns were collected from the scene, and the victims said the police's claims were bunk.

Another contested issue was that of divorce.

Near the end of the Clone Wars, Felucia was one of the key contested worlds during the Outer Rim Sieges .

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

South-East Asia has seen how China is ready to bully Japan over contested waters in the sea between them.

Beijing Guoan contested the group stage of the ACL this year and are in a strong position to qualify for the tournament for a second time.

It will now be contested every time the Lions tour Australia, and is named after the only man to ever play for both the Lions and Australia.

In a statement, GE said Mr Immelt's remarks had been taken out of context and contested the accuracy of the reporting.

For these volunteers, they created special phone lists, available through the Web, of other veterans to call in tightly contested states.

The matter has been contested in a blizzard of law suits ever since.

If all your originally controlled Graveyards become contested or enemy-controlled, you will resurrect in Graveyards towards the enemy bases.

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

"We just wanted to challenge him, " said Bryant. "Even the shots he made were contested shots. "

But yes, elections aren't democracy: An openly contested and fairly decided election is only a precondition to democracy.

Mr Bhanot also insists that India will be ready to host the Games, to be contested by 8, 000 athletes from 71 nations in October next year.

My current project focuses on potentially contested practice where few norms seem to prevail.

It is notable, too, that very few of these deals were contested, at least publicly.

Mrs Pardiggle is one of the more loathsome characters in Charles Dickens' Bleak House, the tragic story of a contested will.

The fuse is lit when the contested activity is at last allowed to proceed, despite the outstanding claim.

The concept of self-esteem has been around since about the 1940s and has been contested for almost as long.

It is fair to say that the XML namespace specification is amongst the most contested of the basic XML specifications.

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

But he needs to prepare the ground at home for a decision that is contested both by the opposition and by many in his own party.

The long-cherished freedom of the EU's citizens to live and work anywhere in the union is sometimes contested too.

Due to contested claims, there's been little detailed exploration of the area -- and speculation has only added fuel to the fire.

The Dutch perinatal mortality rate is one of the highest in Europe, though the cause is contested.

To predict the outcome of this, consider how Chinese investments were a contested issue in the recent election campaign in Zambia.

The Oscars scored its biggest audience in three years, bolstered by a crop of widely seen movies and a closely contested race.

Election officials in several closely-contested states say Democrats are turning out to vote early in greater numbers than Republicans.

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

Among the local ballot measures to be decided on Election Day, California's Proposition 8 is perhaps the most fiercely contested.

When political power is not publicly contested at all, electability is irrelevant and expertise can give the ambitious an edge.

Indeed his Islamist movement won the only general election, in 2006, that it has contested.

The big refinery at Brega, in the contested coastal area between the two sides, is out of order.

The boardroom has been an arena where power is contested ever since the first top-hatted directors sat around the first burled oak table.

Mr Romney then won Wyoming two days later, but since the other candidates barely contested that state, his victory generated little buzz.

So had they contested a larger number of the seats, they would have done even better.

The sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1964 by the Japanese, although it was never contested as a demonstration sport at the Olympics.

Mte guardian of the Yangtze River by the throat, has always been contested.

When play restarted almost immediately a bouncing ball was contested and water and sweat flew off the players' heads.

Both countries depend on imported oil and gas, and one of their territorial disputes involves a contested gas field in the East China Sea.

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

Through their cultural meanings and uses, emotions enable social identities to be created and contested, to become fixed or alter.

Since the nominated bank has contested the issue, we shall appreciate your opinion.

And we don't believe that China should be allowed to resolve disputes in contested waters by coercing smaller nations.

The blackbirds contested with one another for nesting territory.

Due to the peculiarities of the first-past-the-post voting system, the opposition won just six out of the 87 contested seats.

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

The principle of balance, fairness and neutrality has always been contested.

Yet those conditions would require Col Gaddafi to pull out of all the cities that are currently contested.

In biology, the notions of symbiosis, group selection, evolutionary psychology are contested, to be sure.

Kuwait does have freely contested elections to parliament and freedom of expression, but the primacy of the royal family is not questioned.

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

The darkness returned to the no-man's land contested by the Taliban and opposition forces north of the capital.

If the allegation of the depositor is contested, the burden of proof shall be governed by the applicable law.

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

Tyrants' abuse of the principle of "self-determination" has been contested since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It didn't feel like a semi-final. The last one Chelsea contested in this competition was against Manchester United .

Another potential advantage for UAS is that future designs may be better able to survive in contested airspace than manned aircraft are.

The opposition contested the results in several constituencies and rowed over the allocation of some seats by a proportional system.

The soldiers will be living with the police in mud-walled outposts and conducting daily foot patrols alongside them into contested areas.

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

Besides a free press, the country now has vigorously contested elections at all levels, from president down to village chief.

Another example is priority inheritance, a locking policy that defines how lock synchronization is managed when a lock is contested.

It was a characterisation of the situation that the Chinese agency has not publicly contested.

Election results have been almost always contested, leading to a rash of coups and mutinies.

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.

Both cities have plausible bids, which means the decision is likely to be contested.

Opposition supporters have reacted angrily to the outcome of this bitterly contested election.

A closely contested August election in Australia means a few swing votes in Parliament could torpedo the deal.

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

Bush, the victor of the bitterly contested 2000 election, became leader of a divided nation on a rainy Jan.

The Cup is currently contested during the annual Six Nations championship, and has become a fixture of the rugby calendar.

Quantification, he wrote, "is more readily contestable and likely to be contested. "

With the country's soaring real estate prices, property has become a lucrative asset and is frequently contested in divorce cases.

She contested her first World Masters Athletics Championships at the age of 74.

Far from being settled, the fundamentals of healthcare policy are still contested.

The Confucian tradition is diverse and contested, but Confucians today typically defend two key values: political meritocracy and harmony.

The top three Republican posts in the House of Representatives are unlikely to be contested.

In all this, France has played a key, and often contested, role.

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

But several French judges contested the fairness of the competition, saying the Bordeaux selections weren't high-quality.

He expects the final at Wembley to be fiercely contested, but he is also anticipating plenty of goalmouth action.

Each election, no matter how bitterly contested, thus ends with an expression of national unity.

Contested issues have included supposedly confiscatory taxes, a law that threatens media freedom and central-bank independence.

It gives everyone their very own soap box. You can express your ideas and views and expect to be contested.

For non-contested applications, the Board has delegated its power of approval to the Secretary.

The Mandela Challenge Plate is contested by South Africa and Australia during the annual Tri-Nations competition.

But this embarrassed Mr Netanyahu anew: the budget was found already to include a provision for the contested benefit for the haredim.

Some also believe that the contested Spratly and Paracel islands sit on vast oil and gas reserves, a claim yet unproven.

After last summer's contested presidential election, Ahmadinejad appointed Mashaei First Vice-President.

Mr Romney has also won three races, but two (Wyoming and Nevada) were in states that his rivals barely contested.

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.

The supremacy of the consumers is not contested by any capitalistic institution.

Moderate "blue dog" Democrats, typically elected in closely contested districts, did especially badly in November.

Mark was so childish that he left the meeting just because some representatives contested his ideas.

Obama's first stop was Japan, a key U. S. ally and the host of a large (and increasingly contested) U. S. military presence.

Bring in the political philosophers. And who decides on the highly contested trade-offs between privacy and security, efficiency and equity?

The March 14th alliance, a Western-backed coalition, retained its parliamentary majority in a tightly contested election in Lebanon.

The protracted and bitterly contested bidding war highlighted the intense demand for telecoms assets in developing markets.

Hobbes contested the scientific systems of the natural philosophers Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.

He had once contested the seat , and ever after been regarded as an authority upon the nation's affairs.

The North Korean envoy contested the independence of the South Korean inquiry into the incident.

THE memory of Auschwitz, the best-known symbol of the Holocaust, is fiercely contested.

The politics: After oil and water, coltan might soon be among the world's most contested resources.

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

The company has contested numerous fines, including two in January totaling more than $130, 000 related to mine ventilation.

The tests have been available in the US for some time, but their reliability has been contested, sometimes in court.

Beijing already has postponed a second round of talks with Japan on contested undersea gas deposits in the East China Sea.

these circumstances the contested Decision must be annulled but the parties must bear their own costs.

41 events are scheduled to be contested, making the most events to be ever competed in history of the Asian Games.

But it means that the story line is contested, there's no clear-cut resolution, you never have agreement on what exactly happened.

[color=#000000]The top three Republican posts in the House of Representatives are unlikely to be contested.

Indeed, in the last parliament the opposition won just two contested seats, and that was considered a goodish result for them.

The Churchill Cup was introduced in 2003 and is contested annually by England Saxons , USA, Canada and two to three invitational sides.

Since then the two companies have bitterly contested every technological innovation.

The US Security and Exchange Commission's civil suit against Goldman Sachs will be vigorously contested by the defendant.

Such resistance may be difficult for Beijing to overcome since telecoms policy is a contested area between different arms of the government.

The FIA has contested its legality on the basis that no parts exerting an aerodynamic influence may be mobile.

The Confederations Cup is contested by each of the six Fifa Confederation Champions, along with the World Cup winners and host nation.

But with continued ground fighting in contested areas, helping the rebels remains a challenging and complicated goal.

Because most Amazonian ranches are illegal, or their ownership is contested, ranchers and banks are reluctant to invest in them.

The potential financial rewards mean that salvage rights are sometimes legally contested by several parties.

The Cook Cup is played for on a home and away basis by England and Australia, and was first contested in 1997.

The job of reconciling tribal factions in post-Qaddafi Libya is likely to be contested with equal vigour.

All are contested by eminent thinkers , in practice when not in theory , and have still more controversial implications .

We've also added a war score effect if the contested title is left with no controller change for some time.

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

Teachers use the internet for discussion of controversial topics questions with contested answers.

Mr. Perez initiated divorce proceedings against Mrs. Perez in 1997, but she contested them.

As with every other twist in the Iraqi saga, the meaning of this latest turn is fiercely contested.

The contested territory in northern India lies in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

His claim to his deceased father's fortune was fiercely contested.

The classical works on the history of traditional Chinese thinking are currently contested and challenged.

Vernon has usually appointed its officials, rather than electing them, since positions were not even contested.

A long-simmering row between China and Japan over a group of contested islands in the East China Sea erupted again.

BP has contested the fines and says it is now in 'constructive' discussions with OSHA.

Even with more goodwill, this exercise would be contested.

After a secret, contested vote, the islands were deemed out of danger.

In May, Cambodia called on the ICJ to force Thailand to withdraw troops from the contested territory surrounding the temple.

In an election that is closely contested across the country, Poplar and Limehouse is a neck-and-neck, three-horse race.

Vietnam launched a fresh round of licensing this year for blocks it says are not in contested waters.

The Tri-Nations is the premier southern hemisphere competition. It is contested annually by Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Badminton was contested as a demonstration sport during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Judges use a multi-part test, that does not include love, to approve a contested divorce.

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

The opposition had never won a GRC, and usually contested fewer than half the seats.

The Hopetoun Cup was introduced in 1998 to be contested in perpetuity by Scotland and Australia.

Is there any overt collusion among private equity firms to avoid fiercely contested auctions?

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

Three candidates contested the leadership of the party.

It is a different question whether belief in a personal God should be contested.

The old rulers of the Soviet Union were terrified of facing contested elections.

The tournament is contested annually by England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

One is a contested order framed by strategic rivalry between the US and China.

Columbus contested the measurements claiming that the world was much smaller than widely believed.

And warnings have been issued by people closer to the edge of contested waters.

A new report today quotes Egypt's state news agency MENA as saying that Alwaleed gave up his claim to the the contested land.

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

Foreign convicts' appeals against deportation will no longer be contested, in order to liberate their beds. Others will be paid to go home.

In the 2008 tournament, five major events are being contested, as well as four junior events and four invitation events.

We can expect ground to be contested across Afghanistan, and, sadly, we can also expect more casualties across the coalition.

Though alarmed by clashes with China in the contested East China Sea, Japan has had five prime ministers in three years.

Tensions are also rising over sovereignty and navigation rights in the contested South China Sea.

Nearly half a century after China's invasion, it remains largely undefined and bitterly contested.

of the financial minister is hotly contested among politicians.

Diego suffered a lot a lot for this unexpected exclusion and the Argentinian public opinion contested the trainer.

But this argument was strongly contested by the Bush administration.

If conflict breaks out over Taiwan or various contested islands, America would rely on air and naval units.

Consequently, in the domestic realm, words were frequently contested.

Mondex captured the creative costume award during a highly contested Halloween dog show.

As people of holding scientific technique and knowledge, employees become objects who are contested by companies day by day.

Fluorescent bird droppings may help shed light on contested predictions in ecology.

The two runners contested the race closely it was nip and tuck all the way.

What makes Vergeer's winning streak even more remarkable is that many of her matches have been tight, closely-contested affairs.

The US, already seeing its power contested, is unwilling to surrender sovereignty.

Later Depp contested ensuing media reports that dubbed the actor a 'European wannabe'.

Even the humiliation of trailing in a poor third in a hitherto keenly contested game no longer mattered very much.

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

Count of calls made to the Enter method that were not contested.

The state's largest pension fund immediately contested those numbers.

Deadline for receipt of ballots in a contested election.

BANKING. FORMS OF GUARANTEE FOR CONTESTED TAXES OTHER THAN DIRECT TAXATION.

Moreover, the case has a bearing on several other bitterly-contested lawsuits.

They often play a big role in contested mergers and could exert pressure on NYSE's board to talk to the predators.

Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested.

The pact agreed on Monday will address the resolution of disputes in the contested South China Sea.

Three candidates contested the leadership.

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

Yussef works in the Palestinian refugee camp of Deheisha, teaching history, that most contested of subjects in the Middle East.

The Indian Ocean is fast becoming a zone of contested influence between Beijing and Delhi.

He not only protested, but contested, and with some vehemence .

mrs . morel and annie almost contested with miriam who should listen best and win his favour.

The divorce is likely to be more keenly contested.

Perhaps because of the stakes, medical research into the relative risks of home and hospital births is bitterly contested.

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the incumbent, Joseph Kabila, has won the fiercely contested presidential election.

That question is more open and more contested than at just about any other time in Chinese history.

During the match, the Lazio fans constantly contested President Lotito.

Acer is the first Taiwanese company to enter the contested ranks of global Olympic sponsors.

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

Count of calls made to Enter that were contested.

Most of the remainder of the 268 contested seats are held by smaller parties or independent candidates.

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. "

The Dave Gallaher trophy is contested every time New Zealand meet France.

This failing was less grating when only two parties contested most seats.

British sources contested that second-rank status.

Now contested every year by England and Scotland, the history of the cup began in 1872 in Calcutta.

on those hotly contested moral and religious questions.

This seat is being hotly contested by the politicians.

Japan would then have a true two-party system in which political power and ideas are genuinely contested.

Veterans contested the rule as violating another federal law, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Takeovers among drug companies may become more contested as patents expire and they seek growth through acquisitions.

The other is the fiercely contested "digital home" market.

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

The leadership election will be contested by four candidates.

And, in a democracy, every decision is contested.

And the case has a bearing on several other bitterly contested lawsuits.

At Australian Open 2012 the men's singles championships will be contested for the 100th time.

Division One will be contested in 2010 by six teams: Georgia, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Spain.

It is caught in the middle: The story has a contested beginning and an uncertain ending.

But this approach was going to be contested.

The referee 's decision was contested by the loser.

Mr Rudd contested the Federal seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party in 1996.

She contested her husband's claim on the property successfully.

The most politically contested issues, such as bulldozing slums to make way for the contestants' village, have largely been settled.

Yet, besides the PAP, six small parties contested this poll.

Of the three portions divided by the Allahabad ruling, the most bitterly contested-the site of the mosque-will go to a Hindu group.

"Contested Will" is dense with lives and stories and argument. It is also entertaining.

He hopes they will win him more customers in the fiercely contested Chinese market.

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

The soldiers contested every inch of ground.

A total of 476 events in 42 sports will be contested by athletes, making it the largest event in history of the Games.

The Bledisloe Cup is contested annually by New Zealand and Australia.

What is doubtful is how seriously ESPN contested the bidding process.

This year a total of 476 events in 42 sports will be contested, making it the largest event in the history of the Games.

How long their relationship was physical is contested; Chopin struggled with intimacy.

Our centers are getting anywhere from 54 percent to 57 percent of contested rebounds -- that's top three in the league.

The plaintiff contested the will.

Not only is Webber eleven years older than Red Bull's new arrival, Vettel has contested 97 fewer races but already won twice.

Gore contested the election in court.

The Centenary Quaich has been contested on 121 occasions by Scotland and Ireland.