What's the difference between disputed and uncontested?

Disputed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dispute

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
  • (2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (3) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (4) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
  • (5) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
  • (6) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
  • (7) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
  • (8) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
  • (9) The calls were organised after the administration unsuccessfully asked FBI officials to dispute the accuracy of stories, the Post said.
  • (10) Australian Border Force staff involved in a dispute over pay and conditions have been stood down without pay in an attempt to head off industrial action.
  • (11) Nguyen Van Hai criticised the government for its handling of tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
  • (12) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
  • (13) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
  • (14) It is unclear if the steps against Australian advisers have any connection to the Manus dispute.
  • (15) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (16) The role of the macrophage in destruction of virulent treponemes is disputed.
  • (17) The Cabinet Office review was presented at the weekend as an exercise largely focused on the Unite union's strategy of leverage , a form of protest outside the homes of senior executives involved in industrial disputes.
  • (18) Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land.
  • (19) However, certain principles should not be disputed, since nowadays there is hardly any doubt as to their validity.
  • (20) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.

Uncontested


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, that only applies when the dropped ball is uncontested, as they often are inside the area.
  • (2) It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations to deal with low-level uncontested cases within days or even hours of arrest.
  • (3) The testimony relating to the Gadahn video was uncontested by the defence, even though the video was released several months after Manning was arrested in Iraq where he was working as an intelligence analyst.
  • (4) Sturgeon will take over as SNP party leader on Friday after an uncontested leadership election, but will not formally be sworn in as Scotland’s first female first minister until her expected election by MSPs on Wednesday and a formal swearing-in ceremony on Thursday in Scotland’s supreme civil court, the court of session.
  • (5) And yet, in all probability, there will never be a set of clean, uncontested, verifiable facts, set out like exhibits in the public domain, for us all to handle.
  • (6) At the frontline, the picture is murkier but richer: there's plenty of data (at least in acute settings) but this is rarely uncontested and often hard to unpick.
  • (7) Ten years ago Mexico completed a velvet transition to democracy after 71 years of one-party rule with the opposition winning an uncontested victory in presidential elections and the economy growing at 6.6%.
  • (8) It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations so they can deal with low-level, uncontested cases within days or even hours of a suspect's arrest.
  • (9) But if you believe ideas have power, then you must believe in the power of bad ideas to harm when they are left uncontested.
  • (10) Many accounts, including the club's version on its website, cite missile throwing by Italian fans as the spark for violence, a claim contested by other eye-witnesses, but the broad facts are uncontested.
  • (11) 3.50am BST Heat 65-64 Spurs, 6:26 remaining, third quarter Uncontested layup for My Australian Guy gives the Spurs a brief lead, but it's oh so very brief as Rashard Lewis, Rashard Lewis, hits another three-pointer.
  • (12) Uncontested is the contribution of chronic hyperglycemia in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy.
  • (13) China knows it is becoming an uncontested superpower; indeed its newfound muscular confidence was on striking display in Copenhagen.
  • (14) Qwabe says: “I was trying to think about how the world would have reacted if it was a Houlocaust comeback or something which is globally uncontested as historical injustice.” Kiran Benipal, a classics student and co-founder of Rhodes Must Fall In Oxford, says it’s rare a week goes by in Oxford without an incident of racial discrimination or insensitivity.
  • (15) The diagnostic value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is uncontested.
  • (16) The real argument is uncontestable: that by dragging this out, elderly victims might never achieve justice and redress for their appalling treatment.
  • (17) Temporary atrial pacing leads have uncontested utility for diagnosis and treatment of postoperative supraventricular arrhythmias.
  • (18) Our unanimous report, Children in Military Custody , found that the uncontested facts (we did not rely on disputed ones) showed Israel to be regularly violating at least six important provisions of the UN convention on the rights of the child as well as the ban in the Geneva conventions on transporting prisoners across frontiers – something to which Israel, of all countries, should be sensitive.
  • (19) The monkeys hit the target in significantly less time on contested than on uncontested trials.
  • (20) We have concluded that the 1,400 figure is a conservative one and that RMBC and South Yorkshire police (where some also dispute the figures) would do better to concentrate on taking effective action rather than seeking to continue a debate about the numbers.” Casey said she considered it an uncontested fact that children in Rotherham were “sexually exploited by men who came largely from the Pakistani heritage community” and that not enough was done to acknowledge this, stop it happening, protect children, support victims and apprehend perpetrators.