Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested.
The seat was being hotly contested among the politicians.
The divorce is likely to be more keenly contested.
Russia's presidential contest stands in sharp contrast to America's hotly-contested presidential primaries.
She contested her first World Masters Athletics Championships at the age of 74.
The abortion debate came at the end of two hotly contested days in the House of Commons.
Perhaps because of the stakes, medical research into the relative risks of home and hospital births is bitterly contested.
Another example is priority inheritance, a locking policy that defines how lock synchronization is managed when a lock is contested.
Diego suffered a lot a lot for this unexpected exclusion and the Argentinian public opinion contested the trainer.
But it means that the story line is contested, there's no clear-cut resolution, you never have agreement on what exactly happened.
Armed with this information you can confront your wife with confidence. You are sure to win the conversation. The divorce is likely to be more keenly contested.
Foreign convicts' appeals against deportation will no longer be contested, in order to liberate their beds. Others will be paid to go home.
No sooner had President Barack Obama signed the bitterly contested federal budget deal than financial markets gave their verdict by nose-diving.
It argues that ads of unlicensed websites selling medicines or treatments are illegal as well - a view contested in the industry and among lawyers.
“Pregnancy is an extremely contested area of human relationships, ” says Miller. “It’s likely that there are women who try to get pregnant on purpose in order to maintain or change a relationship.
But not only do liberals dislike the Senate bill, dozens of moderate Democrats also worry that voting for an unpopular reform bill may hurt them in hotly-contested elections this autumn.
The western part of the island of New Guinea was once a Dutch colony, but has been Indonesian territory since a highly contested 1969 plebiscite known as the "Act of Free Choice."
The government has been expected to address the restoration of the judiciary first, before moving on to what is expected to be a hotly contested struggle to elect a new President.
At its meeting with China, ASEAN agreed on "guidelines" for implementing a 2002 declaration on a "code of conduct" to minimise the risk of conflict in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
