How To Use Contentious In A Sentence

The basis of its case appears quite arbitrary and rests on contentious historical documentation. Times, Sunday Times
Most contentiously, the applicant must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.
This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the new voting system will be instrumental in preventing the speaker from railroading contentious bills in a unilateral manner.
It is not easy for third parties to intervene in bilateral contentious litigation.

Public religious education has been an increasingly contentious topic in Britain. Christianity Today
The challenge of a book which begins to hybridize these two sometimes contentious communities is impressive. Christianity Today
Subsequent attempts to address the issue proved contentious. Times, Sunday Times
That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
In our religiously mixed household, it's an uncontentious celebration. Times, Sunday Times
The economic benefit that is claimed will come from this is highly contentious. Times, Sunday Times
One area that remains contentious is that of auditing. Times, Sunday Times
It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas.
Thus the issue remains contentious and unresolved at this time.
Canada is a federal system whose powers are formally and sometimes contentiously divided between the national and provincial governments.
Advertising has also been blamed for maintenance of a contentious concept that long-haired, fair-skinned women with aquiline noses have the monopoly on attractiveness.
On the other hand, reopening contentious matters or permitting one or more of the parties to add to their case or make a new case should rarely be allowed.
As if to confirm the notion that Europe's contentious politicians are finally getting their arms around the crisis, one of the continent's wobbliest financial dominoes, Portugal, managed to sell more than a billion euros' worth of its long-term debt at lower than expected interest rates. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
Public religious education has been an increasingly contentious topic in Britain. Christianity Today
And, contentiously, isn't this not that dissimilar to the intellectual tactics of Anti-Semites?
Panel shows the contentiousness of immigration issues.
He took up the cause of persecuted and imprisoned writers across the globe, met world leaders and made fearless, contentious speeches. Times, Sunday Times
The BJP reinducted Jaswant Singh into its fold 10 months after he was expelled for contentious lines on Mohammad Ali Jinnah that the leader had written in his book, and by which he stood today too. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
Linda Krausen, a South Pasadena resident who attended a contentious town hall in Alhambra earlier this month, marveled at the difference. Archive 2009-08-01
After 33 years, the photographic gallery has not only outgrown its premises, tucked away frustratingly out of view in Castlegate but, more contentiously, it has outgrown York too.
Lewis was one of the first to popularize this ‘lexical turn’ in applied linguistics, and he did so energetically, if, at times, contentiously. September « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
Now at one level this line of argument seems quite uncontentious.
Most, if not all, of the contentious points have been resolved by the factions in the House.
He also says that in making these views heard, he is always careful to avoid issues which are politically contentious. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever a politician takes a definite and contentious view on any issue, he or she is castigated for daring to articulate that opinion.
The interlocking ways in which a vast country shaped an individual poet, even as he shaped its contentious, loosely confederated poets, is the subject of Aidan Wasley's "The Age of Auden. Keeper of the Affirming Flame
The Greeks did not have the capacity to write philosophy, because they were a contentious people.
The Cowboy's reply was in French, the tone contentious, touched with arrogance. CORMORANT
Most contentiously, the treaty provided for the partition of Ireland, as six Ulster provinces remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland.
Of course, there would be limits to this freedom, such as where a party is giving contentious evidence in an arbitration.
When referees make contentious decisions players are going to be upset, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.
The adversarial nature of contentious proceedings before the International Court ensures that the parties are readily identifiable.
He adds, somewhat contentiously, that Argentina and Britain "both have a good claim to the Islands". Falkland Islanders should have their say
The best that can be said is that transferring resources across regions is less difficult and politically contentious than doing so across national boundaries. Times, Sunday Times
The challenge of a book which begins to hybridize these two sometimes contentious communities is impressive. Christianity Today
But as I sat there and contentiously played the role of the loyal opposition, it occurred to me that, as I wrote above, Roger didn't really care much about all that.
Many a politician has built a ministerial career on making otherwise contentious subjects stupendously boring. How local government cuts will damage the NHS
Up until this season the umpire closest to any suspicious or contentious incident would review the game tape and lay a charge if warranted.
It will spark months of contentious debate in Congress, where lawmakers will fight to protect their favored programs.
They are inapplicable to orders made by a court of unlimited jurisdiction in the course of contentious litigation.
Yesterday Mr Green also made some contentious comments about the Crown Prosecution Service's decision that the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead has "no case to answer" after it exhibited a 1ft high statue of Jesus with an erection. Pink News
Another contentious topic discussed was how to minister to the large number of Catholics with failed first marriages who have divorced and remarried in civil ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
Abortion is a highly contentious issue.
He refrained from reaching any firm conclusion, but said that it was plain that the entirety of the claimants' cases was contentious to a degree.
A possible reason that American sports may be more fairly officiated is that the games are very stop/start so there are opportunities to review contentious plays. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
It portrays the West falsely and contentiously.
Often the question at issue will be the application of uncontentious principles of public law to a particular factual situation.
Relations with Israel have long been contentious and border skirmishes are fought periodically between the two nations.
This quietly provocative documentary cuts right to the heart of America's most contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence
There have been no protests about people who feel their right to debate a contentious assertion in the NDT has been quashed by over-zealous topic starters.
Relationships like these rarely survive a contentious legal action like this. The Sun
Benedict also discussed his contentious speech in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which provoked the ire of the Muslim world; denounced drug abuse; explained what he described as the impossibility of ordaining women as priests; and, with surprising candor, said that if he did not feel up to the task of being pope, he would resign. The Seattle Times
So, in that sense, I hoped you would find that sort of thing uncontentious, because, again, this is in no way detracting from the quality of the work which you do with your dogs.
One of the contentious areas is vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
It was also a reform which concentrated on a single, highly contentious aspect of transplantation law and ignored long-standing proposals for reform and European initiatives.
But the moves for exemption are likely to prove highly contentious, coming as they do in the run-up to elections to the Scottish parliament.
The panel noted that “since patenting business methods would involve a radical departure from the traditional patent regime, and since the patentability of such methods is a highly contentious matter, clear and unequivocal legislation is required for business methods to be patentable.” Business method patents ‘face rough ride’
He also has the responsibility of deciding the appropriate action for changes where rejection would be contentious.
He was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987 but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious debate that focused on Bork's archconservative legal views. Adam Winkler: Romney's Bork Barrel Politics
The Convention has thus not resolved some of the contentious extraterritorial claims by some states.
Another contentious topic discussed was how to minister to the large number of Catholics with failed first marriages who have divorced and remarried in civil ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most contentious areas of debate concerns the ‘stability’ of contracts.
In the spirit of sorting out some of the absurdity from the more reasonable discourse going in the environmental discussion, let's look at some of the issues which seem to bring on some of the most contentious debate. Supporting Sanity Over Fear: TreeHugger Examines The Most Contentious Environmental Debates
Subsequent attempts to address the issue proved contentious. Times, Sunday Times
While this recognition with respect to hazard is contentious, there is no hesitation to provide intellectual property rights via patents to each new kind of nanoparticle to identify it as "new. MRZine.org
Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues, and the agenda is usually set by the police.
Now the tables are turned on the university's contentious president.
She'd been expecting a sweet, unfortunate boy that she might perhaps feel some compassion for, but at the moment all she should feel for this contentious lad was anger.
One contentious issue is the percentage at which the vote becomes binding. Times, Sunday Times
As the key mechanism for the pretrial procedure, summary judgment plays a special filterative role in handling non-contentious cases of civil procedure.
Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.
Selection in the forwards appears more straightforward and less contentious. Times, Sunday Times
With so much potential contentiousness, how does cooperation start?
Importantly, when spouses divorce, figuring out what they own and how it all should be divided is often one of the most contentiously debated topics.
This new play is all about the contentious issue of legal aid. Times, Sunday Times
However, which musicians deserve the, ah, extra strokes is another, much more contentious, matter.
Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires," so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed. 'Social Network': Password Is Perfection
Complexity research has attracted a lot of attention, but the field remains contentious.
The concern is not with the way scientists and geographers parcel out land in manageable pieces, although this is where the contentiousness surrounding bioregionalism resides.
The Continuing Record extends to eleven volumes and includes serious, contentious allegations back and forth between the parties and other deponents.
Yet the finer details needed to implement this idea in the context of international trade have proven contentious and divisive.
In what follows, I use this painting to define the broad outlines of the Renaissance, touching on some of the key ideas and concepts that are central to an understanding of what is meant when this contentious term is used.
Trading in the stock of other public companies is a contentious use of shareholders' funds. Times, Sunday Times
Never shy of taking risks, the series tackled such contentious issues as feminism and South African apartheid.
Accordingly, the view that government would be better off regulating rather than owning various key utilities, including media and telecommunications, is now ideologically uncontentious.
A particularly contentious issue in medieval military debates concerns the longbow: was it a revolutionary or an evolutionary weapon Jim Bradbury turns his attention to this question in The Medieval Archer Boydell, 1985, convincingly challenging the conventional view that the longbow was a new and devastating weapon only fully adopted by the English after the experience of Edward I’s armies against Welsh archers at the end of the thirteenth century. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare
We have always been a contentious people without any hesitation to tear down our leaders.
Solicitors acting for their clients in contentious business of any kind frequently have to write letters which are or may be defamatory of their clients' adversaries.
Inevitably, the raising of contentious matters will cause conflict. Working with Teenagers
Morrison awarded them a contentious penalty try after Leicester's pack brought down Bath's drive from a lineout.
The tone suggests the contentiousness of those uncertain times.
Only the ceaseless exercise of power, especially by the weighty “great powers,” might hold contentious states in tenuous equilibrium. What Would Wilson Do?
Obama, who earlier was described as deflated by the sudden turn that has seen his popularity drop, called for a bipartisan approach to this and other contentious bills. The Guardian World News
I think it's a fairly uncontentious point that doesn't need arguing so much as it needs action.
One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.
The issues are often contentious and experts expressing different opinions can equally sincerely hold valid views. Times, Sunday Times
This new play is all about the contentious issue of legal aid. Times, Sunday Times
However, which musicians deserve the, ah, extra strokes is another, much more contentious, matter.
It was a worthy angle on a contentious issue. Times, Sunday Times
It is not easy for third parties to intervene in bilateral contentious litigation.
It is also pretty candid and honest and written by someone who writes well, even if what he is saying is sometimes contentious.
He was always reluctant to put contentious matters to a vote, preferring to proceed by consensus. Times, Sunday Times
The aim of this highly contentious policy is to restrict the numbers of expats who may otherwise end up settling in Bermuda on a more permanent basis.
To call something liberal is to make a necessarily contentious claim about what liberalism should mean. The Times Literary Supplement
And that will be politically contentious too. Times, Sunday Times
Sex and reproductive control have to become less contentious issues.
In both he proved an often contentious, always uncompromising individual. Times, Sunday Times
Lack of car parking facilities continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the town.
A contentious and nuanced debate within our polity that is therefore sure to continue is the one about the value and meaning of neo-conservatism.
The race to succeed Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) was contentious from the start. Democratic National Committee transfers total $20 million
The programme tackles some of the more contentious issues of copyright and privacy. Times, Sunday Times
Climate change legislation remained contentious and it seems likely that it will studied to death until it's too late to do anything.
The subpoena hearing, which is normally a tame affair, was contentious because the music industry sees it as a test case.
The economic benefit that is claimed will come from this is highly contentious. Times, Sunday Times
However, tolerance is a complex and even contentious concept open to several interpretations.
Even the name of the war proved contentious; for years the government spurned the term civil war as dignifying the conflict and preferred bandit war. Bloodlust
Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.
He meant the simple issue of mind over matter, but he was picking at one of the most contentious areas of sports science. Times, Sunday Times
Arguments over final salaries and divvying up the remaining assets became painfully contentious.
Most contentiously, Pakistan's military ruler has allegedly agreed to allow a multinational force to be stationed inside the country's borders.
The scheduled sessions had gone badly, both men playing a game of chicken as they moved from one contentious issue to another.
It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas.
They are often contentious, depending on the sensitivity of the site, as is the case with this proposal, sponsored by the Jordanian ministry of tourism and antiquities, in the magical city of Petra.
The Steering Group treats this argument as uncontentious.
But it was the proposals for a speed limit in the bay that proved the most contentious. Times, Sunday Times
Other questions of organizational control are also contentious.
But while there is contentiousness, there is hardly a debate.
In the old-school commercial tradition, it exists to provide much-loved shows in a straightforward and uncontentious manner.
The meeting comes as the Bernanke waits for what promises to be a contentious vote in the Senate on his nomination to another term running the U.S. central bank for another four years. Market News
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Writing under the alias John MacUre, he created a highly contentious picture of the life of junior doctors, which attracted praise from the junior ranks of the medical professional for its accuracy.
The question of divorce and remarriage in church remains highly contentious.
Families engaged in contentious, highly adversarial, and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well.
Public religious education has been an increasingly contentious topic in Britain. Christianity Today
That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system. Marcelo Giugale: Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform?
One of the contentious areas is vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
The contentiousness also reached Washington, where the Justice Department approved the plan although staff lawyers concluded that it diluted minority voting rights.
He also says that in making these views heard, he is always careful to avoid issues which are politically contentious. Times, Sunday Times
By midnight though, the contentious page remained unaltered.
Did such groups welcome or avoid contentious debates?
Moreover, in order to achieve agreement in time for either of these conventions to be signed at Rio, it had proved necessary for many contentious or complex issues to be sidestepped or fudged.
After all, the inquest is often the only public forum in which contentious deaths such as those in custody are subjected to public scrutiny. Terrorism: 7/7 inquest proves value of a system of independent scrutiny
There is nothing contentious or political about them.
These contentious issues concern two perplexities in particular.
I therefore agree that the client care letter or any contentious business agreement should be attached to the bill of costs.
In an interview with People magazine granted shortly after her husband made it through his famously contentious confirmation hearings, Ginni said, What [Anita Hill] did was so obviously political…Her allegations…remind me of the movie Fatal Attraction, or in her case, what I call the fatal assistant. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
At about the same time, the Pentagon's exultation of a contentious personality reflected an increasingly codified belief in speed.
Its opening sentence, "Life is difficult", introduced a tome which argued, uncontentiously and sensibly, that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it. BatesLine: October 2005 Archives
Democrats splinter in contentious health care reform debate White House announces press conference first on Twitter
These bods were so concerned about their safety they were using assumed names - due to the numerous death threats their contentious web site had provoked.
The question of divorce and remarriage in church remains highly contentious.
It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas.
Such strategies can help cut through contentious debates by providing plans of action that all can agree will play out no matter whose view of the future proves correct.
First, a decades-long drought turned fertile lands in the north of Darfur into desert (in a process known as desertification), which made land use and land rights much more contentious. Joel Whitney: My Interview with the Columbia Professor Who Says There is No Genocide in Darfur -- It's an Environmental Crisis
Or would these moves have made the parish more contentious, poisoned the nurturing atmosphere, and proved ultimately self-defeating?
The afternoon might have turned out differently had two contentious incidents gone their way before then. Times, Sunday Times
These were complex, troubled, frequently contentious people.
Samantha Womack, who exited EastEnders after its contentious baby-snatching storyline, is larky in voice and sparky in demeanour but and this can't have been due to her broken toe has a disconcerting habit of swinging her arms up and down as if trying to take off. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
There was no winner in Thursday night's debate, which was the most contentious of the four debates held so far.
Western countries have become increasingly concerned about so-called "home-grown" terrorism in recent years, and surely the arrest of an American for plotting a 9/11 anniversary attack would be seen by some as a cue to reopen contentious debates about how America balances liberty and security. The Economist: Daily news and views
The biggest single problem for the regime is the oppressed, contentious Shi'ite minority, who are fortuitously located just where the largest oil deposits sit.
Since then, interest in the question has continued with an undiminished level of unsettled contentiousness.
One of the contentious areas is vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
The road has proved to be a contentious issue, splitting the village of Hilperton into two camps, one supporting the application, the other campaigning against it.
This is all presented as utterly uncontentious.
The regulations have proved contentious with nurses who say many such relationships end in marriage. Times, Sunday Times
Frank, how do Americans view the very contentious debates over teaching evolution and intelligent design?
Tired of the contentiousness of extremes in conflict?
That leaves the contentious matter of change, which breeds such torrid objections. Times, Sunday Times
The most contentious issue is likely to be a provision encouraging commissioners to facilitate voluntary co-operation by witness to be heard in private.
And that will be politically contentious too. Times, Sunday Times
My Lord, you will be aware of the contentious nature of this litigation between the parties.
Will these be paid a hefty consultation fee, which will absorb the contentious surplus which started the kerfuffle?
Back to the original point -- because of new ownership at Fantasy, John Fogarty is finally able to release a collection of hits now, after 35 years of contentious litigation between Zaenz and himself. Archive 2005-12-11
Citizenship is centred on the notion of autonomous individuals - by definition, adults - making choices about who runs the government and engaging in contentious debate.
The challenge of a book which begins to hybridize these two sometimes contentious communities is impressive. Christianity Today
I think, to focus on something Trent said earlier, the fact that our foreperson came in dressed today in sweats to me indicates, number one, there's some sort of contentious argument going on in that jury room.
It remains a highly contentious way of looking at the world. Times, Sunday Times
Here are two statements that should be uncontentious but which are not. Times, Sunday Times
Within archaeology, Mr. Binford was known as a contentious advocate for his ideas. Archaeologist Dug Beyond Artifacts
By all accounts, her husband was contentious and physically abusive.
It's been my impression that the prevailing contentious issues are pretty much two-sided.
He was always reluctant to put contentious matters to a vote, preferring to proceed by consensus. Times, Sunday Times
All these are, by definition, absent from the contentious realm of politics. Times, Sunday Times
Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
A Wedding dress disasters often result in highly contentious legal cases. The Sun
Furthermore, the Prime Minister has had no difficulty in finding Parliamentary whips to organise majorities even for the most contentious legislation.
It amazes me that it has taken so long for this matter to come to court, when it has for many years been a contentious issue.
The challenge of a book which begins to hybridize these two sometimes contentious communities is impressive. Christianity Today
One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.
Despite the contentiousness of her vacation behavior, it is still my opinion that she should have been allowed to continue as a newscaster in Youngstown.
Despite the contentiousness of a mandatory fee for a universal transit pass, it did pass by a small majority.
The need to accommodate tramways was the reason for another hugely contentious scheme.

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