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  • Her claim is beyond dispute.
    dispute = argument
  • She had a dispute with her landlord about whether the noise was unreasonable at a party she hosted.
    dispute = disagreement, argument, or conflict
  • We have a procedure for handling these kinds of disputes.
    disputes = disagreements
  • Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • Cases such as land disputes, common in our area, which used to be resolved quickly now took ten years to come to court.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements
  • The lawyer will record your response in case of a dispute.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • Ofttimes, in his absence, the trees bent round, carrying their freight of jays and squirrels engrossed in bitter dispute.   (source)
  • Atticus was proceeding amiably, as if he were involved in a title dispute.   (source)
  • "I think that was better than Finny's," said Elwin—better known as Leper—Lepellier, who was bidding for an ally in the dispute he foresaw.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement or argument
  • Our duty is not to blame this man or to praise that, but to settle the dispute.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
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  • He was called upon to arbitrate disputes as though he were an unofficial judge, and Rebecca also enjoyed the high opinion most people had for him.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements
  • * There's an arcane dispute waiting for anyone who wants to have one about the meaning of the phrase "West Coast offense."   (source)
    dispute = argument
  • Then one night he settled the dispute once and for all.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • For a second none of us said anything, and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements or arguments
  • I knew that her father wanted her to learn how to play the piano, but that she wanted to learn the violin, and that this dispute remained unsettled, with both sides standing their ground, until...   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • "I doubt he called on the dragons for every little dispute," said John, "but the possibility would certainly have been an effective deterrent."   (source)
    dispute = disagreement or fight
  • This was a territorial dispute.   (source)
  • That Nudge never quit yapping, and Angel and Gasman had gotten into disputes like whether the sky was blue and what day this was.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements or arguments
  • There are always wars and disputes and battles.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements
  • Other disputes have dragged on for weeks before reaching resolution.   (source)
  • Cool Heads Will Settle Disputes   (source)
  • Surely if there were any truth in the notion that reading fiction greatly increased our capacity for empathy then college English departments ... [would] be the one place where disputes are most often quickly and amiably resolved by mutual empathetic engagement.   (source)
  • It is a matter of dispute among historians whether the accusers focused more attention on the alleged religious crimes, or the alleged political crimes, of Socrates.   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • This arrangement would have worked well enough if it had not been for the disputes between Snowball and Napoleon.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements
  • He informed himself of the dispute, and only remarked: "Yes, we did have heavy losses yesterday."   (source)
    dispute = disagreement
  • ...the dispute ended in a short struggle,   (source)
  • Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.   (source)
  • The period was hardly, if at all, earlier than that of our story, when a dispute concerning the right of property in a pig not only caused a fierce and bitter contest in the legislative body of the colony, but resulted in an important modification of the framework itself of the legislature.   (source)
  • I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.   (source)
    dispute = argument
  • Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory;   (source)
  • Given Russia's long, heartless winters, its familiarity with famine, its rough sense of justice, and so on, and so on, it was perfectly natural for its gentry to adopt an act of definitive violence as the means of resolving disputes.†   (source)
  • Mom had a lot of Mamaw's fire, which meant that she never allowed herself to become a victim during domestic disputes.†   (source)
  • Lale is largely immune to the camp disputes.†   (source)
  • Our months of separation, the conversion, all the pain we caused our parents and neighbors, the disputes with them, the extra schooling.†   (source)
  • Since then, we'd used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.†   (source)
  • Other villagers, including Nya's uncle, would resolve any disputes that arose.†   (source)
  • …had something to do with writing or else with futuristic transportation, but he couldn't decide which), and moved on to question twenty-one, which read: "After the fall of the Russian Empire, when a failed attempt to create a Transcaucasian Republic with Georgia and Armenia led to the creation of the country Azerbaijan (which currently disputes with Armenia the territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region), from what key powers did Azerbaijan …."†   (source)
  • And all the great disputes of paleontology were carried out in this fashion-including the bitter debate, in which Grant was a key figure, about whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded.†   (source)
  • And every year that I've visited the island, there are the familiar disputes regarding what kind of owl it was—or even if it was an owl.†   (source)
  • …after various distribution catastrophes which had now been set right; the advertising campaign had offended some elderly bishops so another was devised; then came the problems of success itself, unbelievable sales, I new production quotas, and disputes about overtime rates, and the search for a site for a second factory about which the four unions involved had been generally sullen and had needed to be charmed and coaxed like children; and now, when all had been brought to fruition,…†   (source)
  • So they were overwhelmingly solo practitioners, handling wills and divorces and contracts and minor disputes, and in the Depression the work of the solo practitioner all but disappeared.†   (source)
  • But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.†   (source)
  • See also L. M. Kopelman, "Children as Research Subjects: Moral Disputes, Regulatory Guidance and Recent Court Decisions," Mount Sinai Medical Journal (May 2006); and J. Pollak, "The Lead-Based Paint Abatement Repair Maintenance Study in Baltimore: Historic Framework and Study Design," Journal of Health Care Law and Policy (2002).†   (source)
  • She sat erect, speaking calmly, saying that a few white people lived not far from her house, yet there had been no racial disputes.†   (source)
  • They spoke, but the words were about meaningless facts, nothing that could lead to disputes or misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • Firing squads had been busy day and night settling ancient theological disputes and it was estimated that at least a quarter of a million Sunis had been slaughtered in the first two days of the New Prophet's occupation.†   (source)
  • That Harriet Monroe also loved Root seems beyond dispute.†   (source)
  • Graphed the frequency of doorway delivery-time disputes.†   (source)
  • Rap sessions and high-priced attorneys have proved to be effective tools for ending labor disputes.†   (source)
  • Thousands of cases of property disputes already clogged the country's courts.†   (source)
  • "There are discrepancies that are beyond dispute," says Simon.†   (source)
  • I know about the daily disputes in the Lamp courtyard, but Nathaniel leaves there each day for the solitude of the Second Street tunnel.†   (source)
  • Most of his business associates viewed those disputes as if they were matrimonial arguments, in which both parties are right.†   (source)
  • HIGH COUNCIL: the Landsraad inner circle empowered to act as supreme tribunal in House to House disputes.†   (source)
  • I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.†   (source)
  • The activities of the council were mundane, making decisions on room disputes or claims of theft or unneighborly behavior, and also on relations with other houses on the street.†   (source)
  • The Bjurman marriage had lasted fourteen years, and the divorce went through without disputes.†   (source)
  • On the sixth day of every week, from morning until noon, she grants an audience to everyone who wishes to bring requests or disputes before her.†   (source)
  • Ida and Vivaldo buried their disputes in silence, in the mined field.†   (source)
  • Prefects were responsible for preventing disputes, not provoking them.†   (source)
  • Their disputes, however, became more and more difficult to reconcile.†   (source)
  • It was a site where ancient Norse met to settle legal disputes and make political decisions.†   (source)
  • But in recent years, disputes over soccer in public parks were occurring more frequently around fast-growing cities like Atlanta, due largely to the influx of immigrants—particularly Latinos—from soccer-playing cultures around the world.†   (source)
  • But an exam given at the University of Georgia in the fall of 2001 disputes that idea.†   (source)
  • There were frequent disputes about chair time in the salon room, played out against the overpowering smells of perm solution and burning hair.†   (source)
  • The other men did well too, although there was some grumbling and many small disputes.†   (source)
  • I like disputes.†   (source)
  • "Tor'lin ker'ru, justice mushrooms; induce feelings of liking and love in those who eat them; used in elvish courts of law to settle civil disputes."†   (source)
  • Alba made an effort to take an interest in her studies again, and he turned once more to his political activities, because events were taking place at breakneck pace and the country was torn apart by a series of ideological disputes.†   (source)
  • This bothers Cedric, and yet the desire to make himself belong actually intensifies as word spreads of the disputes with Rob.†   (source)
  • Ten years in the trenches and his office was still filled with wills and deeds and two-bit contract disputes, not one decent criminal case and no promising car wrecks.†   (source)
  • Even among the opposition, there wasgrowing agreement on the need for unanimity, "harmony," a healing of disputes.†   (source)
  • I knew I had caused the disputes more than half the time, and it was Patsy who would make amends.†   (source)
  • Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People's Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities.†   (source)
  • A few shootings occurred in turf disputes, and many of the fun lovers and shoppers decided that the scene was too colorful and that to be seen here was to be marked as a victim.†   (source)
  • Aren't there disputes?†   (source)
  • The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.†   (source)
  • Noting that databases can now be searched for texts hundreds of years old, writer John Rosen thai believes computers are giving descriptivists an advantage: For years when it came to settling language disputes, the pre-scriptivists have held the upper hand.†   (source)
  • During the Middle Ages, bitter disputes arose over our direction.†   (source)
  • Their disputes with Kemp's people seemed petty indeed against the weight of the disaster that had befallen the towns.†   (source)
  • Grim first half is beyond dispute.†   (source)
  • But nobody could really get moving until a few disputes got hammered out.†   (source)
  • Driblette's head wagged back and forth "Don't drag me into your scholarly disputes," adding "whoever you all are," with a familiar smile.†   (source)
  • There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters--all to be settled without force of arms.†   (source)
  • Did he not, again and again, have to drink from holy sources, as a thirsty man, from the offerings, from the books, from the disputes of the Brahmans?†   (source)
  • "Tiger hunts, border disputes with neighboring kingdoms, keeping up the morale of the harem, a bit of botanical research-things like that-the stuff of life," said Sam.†   (source)
  • I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes.†   (source)
  • In regional disputes, his regional responsibilities will likely guide his course.†   (source)
  • Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defense of the farm.   (source)
    disputes = disagreements
  • "My dear friend," says he, pleasantly, "how can you advise my avoiding disputes?"   (source)
    disputes = disagreements, arguments, or conflicts
  • He brought a commission to supersede Mr. Hamilton, who, tir'd with the disputes his proprietary instructions subjected him to, had resign'd.   (source)
  • Our disputes were often brought before our father, and I fancy I was either generally in the right, or else a better pleader, because the judgment was generally in my favor.   (source)
  • And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes.   (source)
  • On this he did not then explain himself; but when he afterwards came to do business with the Assembly, they appear'd again, the disputes were renewed, and I was as active as ever in the opposition, being the penman, first, of the request to have a communication of the instructions, and then of the remarks upon them, which may be found in the votes of the time, and in the Historical Review I afterward publish'd.   (source)
  • Possibly, as they dislik'd my late intimacy with the members of council, who had join'd the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the House had long been harass'd, they might have been pleas'd if I would voluntarily have left them; but they did not care to displace me on account merely of my zeal for the association, and they could not well give another reason.   (source)
  • Once there had been bitter disputes, the intersection closed by sporadic sniper fire.†   (source)
  • Once a week, she held an open court to resolve the Varden's various disputes.†   (source)
  • As you can imagine, ABC News disputes this study vigorously.†   (source)
  • It was the task of the sons of the Ixhiba or Left Hand House to settle royal disputes.†   (source)
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  • Do you dispute the allegation?
    dispute = challenge, or argue that it is not true
  • She disputes his claim.
    disputes = challenges
  • The Cunninghams married the Coninghams until the spelling of the names was academic— academic until a Cunningham disputed a Coningham over land titles and took to the law.   (source)
    disputed = challenged
  • But if the Oracle said that my son should be killed I would neither dispute it nor be the one to do it.   (source)
    dispute = challenge
  • Who were these common resentful farmers to dispute his royal right?   (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue that it is not valid)
  • ELIZABETH: I cannot dispute with you, sir; I lack learning for it.   (source)
    dispute = argue
  • They wanted to dispute the central premise of my report, the part in which I insisted Marley was the world's worst-behaved animal.   (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue that it was not true that)
  • "I'm hardly wearing any," Bert said, as Wes put a hand over his nose, disputing this.   (source)
    disputing = challenging (showing disagreement about)
  • "The claim," he said, "has been made by one of Arthur's own kinsmen, and as such ought not to be disputed."   (source)
    disputed = challenged (argued about)
  • There's no disputing what we found.   (source)
    disputing = challenging (arguing about)
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  • Frog's experience was limited to practice yard and tourney ground, so he did not think it was his place to dispute the verdict of such a seasoned warrior.   (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue or disagree with)
  • Juries in the common-law courts of New York State determine disputed facts.   (source)
    disputed = challenged (argued about)
  • He said: "The other two deaths have resulted from the administration of drugs. That, no one will dispute, is easily compassed by a person of the smallest physical strength."   (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue that it was not true that)
  • Without disputing a truth so momentous, we must be allowed to consider this version of Mr. Dimmesdale's story as only an instance of that stubborn fidelity with which a man's friends—and especially a clergyman's—will sometimes uphold his character, when proofs, clear as the mid-day sunshine on the scarlet letter, establish him a false and sin-stained creature of the dust.   (source)
    disputing = challenging
  • While we were disputing this, a waiter came to tell me two gentlemen below desir'd to speak with me.   (source)
    disputing = debating or arguing about
  • Doctors raving and disputing, death's pale army still recruitin'.†   (source)
  • Even the annoying customers, like the red-haired woman who ran the toy shop and disputed her change at least once a week, didn't trouble me.†   (source)
  • The very first one read: The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?†   (source)
  • As for the settlement of the disputed deed, you can be sure the Indians were not the beneficiaries of the resolution to that difference of opinion.†   (source)
  • " "You shouldn't get so upset," I said to my mother after she disputed a charge of two extra dollars because she had specified chrysanthemum tea, instead of the regular green tea.†   (source)
  • Norta, the Lakelands, Piedmont, Prairie, Tiraxes, Montfort, Ciron, and all the disputed lands in between.†   (source)
  • It carries an enchantment by which it can identify the first human to lay hands upon it, in case of a disputed capture.†   (source)
  • "But are you not," he said, "a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus Twelve, the Magic and Indefatigable?"†   (source)
  • No one disputed his account or tried to add individual testimony.†   (source)
  • How the tabloids got hold of that story is hotly disputed.†   (source)
  • Every faith with more than a million followers was represented, and they reached a surprisingly immediate agreement on the statement of their common goal: "We are here to remove a primary weapon from the hands of disputant religions.†   (source)
  • I think first of all that he felt the whole Church of Reason was irreversibly in the arena of logic, that when one put oneself outside logical disputation, one put oneself outside any academic consideration whatsoever.†   (source)
  • It can be disputed, obviously.†   (source)
  • From The Shadow Exploded: Documented Facts and Specific Conclusions Derived from the Case of Carietta White, by David R. Congress (Tulane University Press: 1981), p.34: It can hardly be disputed that failure to note specific instances of telekinesis during the White girl's earlier years must be attributed to the conclusion offered by White and Stearns in their paper Telekinesis: A Wild Talent Revisited-that the ability to move objects by effort of the will alone comes to the fore only…†   (source)
  • Some were dispatched in a day, others were disputed for years.†   (source)
  • THE FOX BROTHERS train has been moved off the siding, and the hotly disputed elephant car is now hitched directly behind our engine, where the ride will be smoothest.†   (source)
  • In the corner of the parking lot above the disputed patch of grass in Milam Park, there was a cracked and aged sign that in faded lettering proclaimed the name of this public space to any who might pass by—ARMISTEAD FIELD.†   (source)
  • This, in turn, earned each of us private face time with the senior officer, who demanded to know if I disputed the charge, shot number 316 in the prison rule book.†   (source)
  • Edward had disputed their verdict, but I'd let it go.†   (source)
  • Dish had assumed that, as a top hand, he would have a point, and no one disputed his right, but both Bert and Needle were unhappy that Soupy had the other point.†   (source)
  • After Muhammad died in Aisha's arms (according to Sunni doctrine, which is disputed by Shiites), she took on an active and public role, in a way that annoyed many men.†   (source)
  • The details of his death are still disputed by Pakistan's authorities, but the story Mortenson had pieced together from talking to Haramosh villagers was this: Gillette and his wife had been approached by porters who insisted that they hire them.†   (source)
  • I'm not disputing you.†   (source)
  • Then, every sentence had to resound in both English and French, which made the discussion take twice as long, or rather more than twice as long, since all the French had some English and kept interrupting the interpreter to correct him, disputing every word.†   (source)
  • Neighboring Somalia decided this was the time to press its claims on disputed territory in the Ogaden Desert that even the vultures did not want.†   (source)
  • And now it was also I and not only Reb Saunders who was able to listen to Danny's voice only through a Talmudic disputation.†   (source)
  • Because the boundary line had been disputed for so long, everybody knew exactly where it was.†   (source)
  • Have you recorded your wise disputations?†   (source)
  • He stood in front of the suite's narrow mantel of white marble as though it were a classroom blackboard, his hands clasped behind him, an agitated professor about to question and lecture simultaneously an annoying, disputatious graduate student.†   (source)
  • Among the surprises of the unfolding drama, as tensions increased, was the extent to which the ardent, disputatious John Adams held himself in rein, proving when need be a model of civility and self-restraint, even of patience.†   (source)
  • It was this long line of tongues that had given us the name Labrador, for it was unmentioned in either the Bible or Repentances, and they may have been right about the cold, although there were only two cold months in the year now — Tribulation could account for that, it could account for almost anything…… For a long time it had been disputed whether any parts of the world other than Labrador and the big island of Newf were populated at all.†   (source)
  • All the instincts bred into him at Burundian schools warned against disputing a teacher's statements, but he couldn't help himself.†   (source)
  • The Diem assassination was America's point of no return in terms of involvement, and while there are many who debate whether or not the United States had a hand in his death, there's no disputing that the situation only got worse from there.†   (source)
  • "All this," said the Tisroc, "is a question for the disputations of learned men.†   (source)
  • It was said that he even won the respect of his father, but this point was disputed.†   (source)
  • With all due respect, Signore, you'll have to convince me," Nicolo challenged, thinking, awakening, ready for ten hours of disputation.†   (source)
  • Southern Valley's not even disputing it.†   (source)
  • I never disputed it.†   (source)
  • The systems had been disputed by the Rangora for nearly sixty years.†   (source)
  • The facts were not disputed.†   (source)
  • In May the boats left to gig for halibut, Mark and Jim accompanying them for two days' fishing in Knight's Inlet, a wild, lovely and lonely land, the boat rolling in the tidal sweep, the seals disputing each fish.†   (source)
  • Disputing.†   (source)
  • But although they made no claims, they evidently had their own special rights over the dead man, and no one questioned or disputed the undeclared authority that they had unaccountably assumed.†   (source)
  • But when the Commission, acting wholly along party lines, awarded the disputed states and the election to Hayes with 185 electoral votes to 184 for Tilden, the South was outraged.†   (source)
  • I share his social goals, and wish that we could be allies instead of disputants in the cause of education reform.   (source)
    disputants = people involved in an argument
  • ...and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point—   (source)
    dispute = challenge (argue or disagree with)
  • As yet Sir Thomas had seen nothing to remark in Mr. Crawford's behaviour; but when the whist-table broke up at the end of the second rubber, and leaving Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris to dispute over their last play, he became a looker-on at the other, he found his niece the object of attentions, or rather of professions, of a somewhat pointed character.   (source)
    dispute = battle or contest
  • We therefore had many disputations.   (source)
    disputations = debates or formal arguments
  • I was conscious of an impropriety in my disputing with a military man in matters of his profession, and said no more.   (source)
    disputing = challenging, arguing about, or fighting over
  • ...in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs.   (source)
  • You know I love disputing; it is one of my greatest pleasures; however, to show the regard I have for your counsel, I promise you I will, if possible, avoid them.   (source)
  • But I was scarce fifteen, when, after doubting by turns of several points, as I found them disputed in the different books I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.   (source)
    disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
  • …I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves, believing it was better to spend what time I could spare from public business in making new experiments, than in disputing about those already made.   (source)
    disputing = challenging, arguing about, or fighting over
  • If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.   (source)
    disputation = a debate or formal argument
  • I continu'd this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if…   (source)
    disputed = challenged, argued about, or fought over
  • We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship.   (source)
  • The utility of this currency became by time and experience so evident as never afterwards to be much disputed; so that it grew soon to fifty-five thousand pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, building, and inhabitants all the while increasing, till I now think there are limits beyond which the quantity may be hurtful.   (source)
  • We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship.   (source)
    disputatious = inclined to challenge or argue
  • …of going to New York, as the nearest place where there was a printer; and I was rather inclin'd to leave Boston when I reflected that I had already made myself a little obnoxious to the governing party, and, from the arbitrary proceedings of the Assembly in my brother's case, it was likely I might, if I stay'd, soon bring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an infidel or atheist.   (source)
    disputations = debates or formal arguments
  • No one appeared interested in disputing her choice.†   (source)
  • That might be disputed, but it certainly isn't a church.†   (source)
  • Mr. Cross called out, his tone clearly disputing this.†   (source)
  • This is the way He wanted me to be and I ain't disputing His way.†   (source)
  • Flipping back to the beginning of the test, Reynie read the very first question again: "The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?"†   (source)
  • We had no doubts about the exact placement of the Kenmores or the Dowlings; Owen disputed my notion that Maureen Early and Caroline O'Day were in the top row—he SAW them nearer the bottom.†   (source)
  • Disputed encounters with nature are also popular; my days here are most enjoyably spent in identifying species of bird and mammal and fish and reptile and, unfortunately, insect—almost none of which is well known to me.†   (source)
  • And in the morning, long before the child stirs, I hear the gulls and I think about the tomato-red pickup cruising the coastal road between Hampton Beach and Rye Harbor; I hear the raucous, embattled crows, whose shrill disputations and harangues remind me that I have awakened in the real world—in the world I know—after all.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 14 Disputed It was too much for both of us, seeing him here, now, after already accepting that we'd never see him again, after believing that we'd lost him forever.†   (source)
  • But one fact not disputed is that the profits from his first several kills enabled the assassin to set up an organization that might be envied by an operations analyst of General Motors.†   (source)
  • Some in the Disputed Lands.†   (source)
  • Since he and Orik had arrived in Tronjheim, three days ago, the thirteen chiefs of the dwarf clans had done nothing but argue about issues that Eragon considered inconsequential, such as which clans had the right to graze their flocks in certain disputed pastures.†   (source)
  • Lord Willum's sons Josua and Elyas disputed heatedly about who would be first over the walls of King's Landing.†   (source)
  • I disputed the allegations of the state that the aims and objects of the ANC and the Communist Party were one and the same.†   (source)
  • As once he had seen the Declaration of Independence uniting the different and often disputatious states in common cause, Adams now saw the Constitution as the best means possible "to cement all America in affection and interest as one great nation."†   (source)
  • THOMAS STONE HAD a reputation at Missing for being outwardly quiet but intense and even mysterious, though Dr. Ghosh, the hospital's internal medicine specialist and jack-of-all-trades, disputed that last label, saying, "When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious."†   (source)
  • They called such discussions bitul Torah, time taken away from the study of Torah, and looked upon all the disputants with icy disgust.†   (source)
  • 'I considered disputing this, but as he'd said the same thing about Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, I figured it wasn't worth the argument.†   (source)
  • He had soldiered in the Disputed Lands across the narrow sea, riding with the Second Sons for a time before forming his own company.†   (source)
  • He recited about a third of the page word for word, including the commentaries and the Maimonidean legal decisions of the Talmudic disputations.†   (source)
  • But he said nothing, and after the disputants had been half carried, half dragged, from the lunchroom he returned immediately to the math problem we had been discussing.†   (source)
  • And then someone said — people disputed afterwards whether Lucy or Edmund said it first — "You're not — not Eustace by any chance?†   (source)
  • I imagine," Fiedler continued, indicating with his head the motionless figure of Mundt in the front row, "that it is not disputed by the defendant that he was in Copenhagen on June twenty-first, nominally engaged on secret work on behalf of the Abteilung."†   (source)
  • Together we beat a world, you and I, for nothing really wanted us here and everything disputed our coming.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha realized, with a sudden shock, that he was assisting in the choosing, disputing with Taraka over the virtues of this or that matron, maid or lady.†   (source)
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