All 6 Uses of
dispute
in
1984 by Orwell
- In practice no one power ever controls the whole of the disputed area.†
p. 187..5 *
- All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods.†
p. 187..6
- It should be noted that the fighting never really moves beyond the edges of the disputed areas.†
p. 188..0
- Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.†
p. 193..1
- Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas round the Equator and the Pole: no invasion of enemy territory is ever undertaken.†
p. 195..9
- Those whose attitude towards the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories.†
p. 215..8
Definition:
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(dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over