Inventing images: constructing and contesting gender in thinking about electroacoustic music.
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As the fine arts became commodified and politicized, images of rule too became possessed, interpreted, and contested by subjects.
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By monumentalising the past through the dead, the authority and status of particular elites are announced, confirmed or even contested.
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Our understanding of the causal forces that bear upon our current circumstances is bound to be limited and often contested.
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The office bloc ballot is designed so that the names of candidates are grouped together under the title of the office they are contesting.
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Established candidates contested these nominations to the convention.
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First, election contests in both chambers have tapered off considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century.
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With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations.
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The machinery developed here is quite general, but the main application is to two-candidate contests.
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Electorally contested 'swing' regions tended to be the beneficiaries of national subsidies rather than others.
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In this period, there have been 352 races where incumbents have been contested and where data are available.
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Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality.
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Their status was contested by both markets and state hierarchies and their independence was constrained and manipulated.
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While donors generously finance post-conflict or founding elections, funds become scarcer for subsequent electoral contests.
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Among the terms used are 'minimal phrase ' and 'phonological word ', both of which have contested meanings in the literature on phonological theory.
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Collocationswithcontest
contest
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annual contest
Making the record of the most home runs inannualcontestand most home runs in a single round.
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athletic contest
A pentathlon is anathleticcontestof five events.
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close contest
Interest in elections is greatest when there is aclosecontest.
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