contention

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Arguing & disagreeing
agent provocateur
alienate
alienated
argue with someone
argumentatively
bone
conflict
flame
hammer
lock hornsidiom
non-consensual
pick
piggy in the middle
provocateur
quarrel
quibble
says who?idiom
set someone against someone
the fur fliesidiom
throw

Examples of contestation

contestation
But we also need to recognize the limits of this measure of contestation, limits that dictate caution in our interpretation.
Centrifugal forces arose from within villages, besetting religious life with internal contradictions and contestation.
Democratic contestation seems to be particularly important in countering ethnic fractionalisation's tendency to worsen corruption in noncompetitive political environments.
The dialectic between resisting and reinforcing gender norms - the tension between contestation and consent - highlights the role of individual personality in navigating social organisation.
Many of these ambiguities of usage were devalued and minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period.
In order to understand the politics of evaluation, therefore, we need to consider both its role within political discourse and its contestation within society.
She describes the ways in which older people's identities are subject to just as much contestation as younger people's.
Nor did they feel compelled to design political strategies based on organized contestation.
When this is attempted, one researcher 's judgments are susceptible to another 's contestation, which can in turn be challenged, and so on.
Rather, it was the outcome of contestation and compromise between multiple loci of power, both within and outside the former colonial boundaries.
Not surprisingly, post-disaster reconstruction is an arena fraught with political, ideological, and economic divisiveness and contestation.
Yet, while both are associated with superior employment performance, the two combinations produce very different distributional outcomes, making them subject to political contestation.
They ensured that 'colonial medicine' remained entangled in local contestations over medical authority.
However, many scholars missed the point that the process also involved a considerable degree of resistance and contestation as well.
The close correlation between democratic contestation and executive restraints makes it difficult to distinguish very sharply between their effects on developmental governance.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.