1. Both views are highly contentious.

2. She has some rather contentious views on education.

3. Try to avoid any contentious wording.

4. Abortion is a highly contentious issue.

5. Sanctions are expected to be among the most contentious issues.

6. Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.

7. When referees make contentious decisions players are going to be upset, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

8. Finally, there is the contentious issue of time-expired projects.

9. The particular reasons are more contentious.

10. Inflation had become a particularly serious and contentious subject.

11. However, the third assumption is more contentious.

12. Courses can be instrumental or diversionary but not contentious.

13. In liquor he became sullen and contentious.

14. The third approach is most contentious.

15. Logging on public lands is a contentious issue.

16. Sometimes his segmentation is highly contentious.

17. Abortion has always been a contentious subject.

18. Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues, and the agenda is usually set by the police.

19. Whatever the eventual outcome of this contentious issue, it is not likely to be resolved in the near future.

20. Blake often stretches concepts with contentious boundaries into diaphanous holdalls.

21. The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both.

22. One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.

23. Your identifying the most contentious point at issue was commendable.

24. The question of divorce and remarriage in church remains highly contentious.

25. Setting the fees for each pollutant would be highly contentious and beset by political wrangling.

26. Or would these moves have made the parish more contentious, poisoned the nurturing atmosphere,() and proved ultimately self-defeating?

27. The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.

28. Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.

29. But the mechanism of direct action is unknown and the subject remains highly contentious.

30. It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be, if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out.

1. Abortion is a highly contentious issue.

31. The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue.

32. Yet the finer details needed to implement this idea in the context of international trade have proven contentious and divisive.

33. It could contribute to encouraging Gingrich to be a less contentious figure.

34. The exclusion of school-leavers from the unemployment figures is a more contentious issue.

35. Neither President Clinton nor Bob Dole cares to plunge into that particular contentious thicket these days.

36. However, which musicians deserve the, ah, extra strokes is another, much more contentious, matter.

37. The contentious meeting came as controversy over Clinton fund raising continued to escalate.

38. The most contentious issue in the early days of the second session was the collegiality of bishops.

39. Even a decade ago, that would have been a contentious assertion.

40. The last bar on my pub crawl is the most contentious.

41. Outside the state apparatuses public opinion was becoming increasingly polarized over the contentious issue of greater state powers.

42. Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.

43. He also has the responsibility of deciding the appropriate action for changes where rejection would be contentious.

44. The interpretation of the private language argument is highly contentious.

45. The books fictionalize a fundamentalist reading of the New Testament's contentious Book of Revelation.

46. The Ballet and the cavernous, gilt-trimmed Wang are locked in symbiotic, occasionally contentious embrace.

47. The adversarial nature of contentious proceedings before the International Court ensures that the parties are readily identifiable.

48. Pretty technical stuff this, with enough contentious issues to make every boar farmer's hair curl.

49. Magona's reexamination of a highly contentious political event leaves no easy answers.

50. The Senate vote marked the end of a long and contentious battle over the minimum wage that began last year when Sen.

51. With so much hype surrounding the Internet and its potential for commercial opportunities, market research has been a contentious issue.

51. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

52. Morrison awarded them a contentious penalty try after Leicester's pack brought down Bath's drive from a lineout.

53. Such claims might be contentious, but it would be odd to see them as meaningless.

54. UDCs: gainers and losers One of the most contentious issues surrounding UDCs is that of gainers and losers.

55. If a written constitution is contentious from its beginning, it will not command respect, and it will not be obeyed.

56. Another contentious issue is whether the revisions themselves are legal since they were passed without notification to the opposition.

57. The ultimate determinants of real investment, whether by foreign or domestic firms, remain a contentious issue in economic theory.

58. Michael Scott describes the practical proposals put forward in a new report on this contentious issue.

59. He was intimately involved with many of the most contentious issues in the three years of design and construction.

60. The tutor-librarian model, and title, was for some years highly contentious in the library profession as well as among many teachers.

61. As a role model, she is a highly contentious one.

62. How significant are the changes brought about by the introduction of this concept is more contentious.

63. There were several contentious rights of way matters still outstanding, some of which were linked to the bypass.

64. One of the earliest theories has also been one of the most contentious.

65. There is no long-term advantage in avoiding contentious and divisive issues.

66. In 1634 the Reverend Thomas Hooker, finding Massachusetts too crowded and contentious, began to petition for the right to leave.

67. It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas.

68. If granted, the taxing officer assesses the costs on the same basis as for costs in contentious matters.

69. Costs in contentious cases are more complicated because a successful party may normally recover some of the costs from the losing party.

70. Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.

71. The most contentious planning issue was perhaps the question of retailing.

72. Standards are one of the most contentious issues in education.

73. Politically the situation was contentious and Rhee had not shown the correct touch in tackling domestic problems.

74. It is not the only contentious matter to have been exercising the lady's mind.

75. A public inquiry is usually employed, however,() only if the appeal involves a very large or highly contentious development.

76. The most contentious debate had centred on the issue of religious education.

77. Hardly ever, except perhaps when focusing on especially contentious and critical issues.

78. Jessica was yet another contentious subject my sister and I best avoid, I remember suddenly.

79. There are proposals for less contentious but equally important Bills.

80. The subject is contentious enough in all conscience - the independent film.

81. Eikhl was contentious, shouted,(http:///contentious.html) and snorted laughter through a single nostril.

82. That was even true of de Gaulle's other main preoccupation in these years - his ambitious and contentious foreign policy.

83. The contentious rules will once again be opened to public debate, Thompson said.

84. One particularly contentious area in the field of health and safety is the valuation of human life itself.

85. Complexity research has attracted a lot of attention, but the field remains contentious.

86. Axworthy pointed to other contentious issues between the two neighbors that require resolution.

87. While the sale will go through the contentious issue will re-emerge in the run-up to an expected spring election.

88. Smuts had gone on to much more contentious matters.

89. His imprisonment had been a contentious issue in Israel.

90. A hard, contentious look came into his eyes.

91. She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.

92. Lam, who was also the firm's Beijing managing partner, practices in all areas of contentious and non-contentious IP, with a particular emphasis on consumer electronics and telecommunications.

93. On the contentious matters, we have handled many tenant and landlord disputes with extensive experience on the extension of lease, right of re-entry, breaches of covenants and their remedies.

94. The system of participation in distribution in the civil execution proceedings is always one of contentious points in theoretical circle and practical circle of civil procedure law.

95. The valuation of stocks is a difficult and sometimes contentious matter.

96. Evaluation is actually neither problematic nor contentious in technical and functional areas.

97. Meanwhile, in the land of the living, making provision for the remains of the dead is one of crowded Hong Kong's most contentious issues.

98. Foreign investment in tobacco has been a contentious issue for years.

99. What historiographical points have been particularly interesting, or contentious, or murky?

100. The facilitation of the contentious procedure and the diversification of the summary procedure have already become the basic trend of the legislation development of the criminal procedure.

101. Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.

102. The hippies'etymology is contentious.

103. Yet another contentious issue in the manufacture of infant formula involves the omission of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).

104. It offered no relief for American forest products - which are among the most contentious trade issues.

105. The convictive standard of criminal contentious testimony is the principle of guiding and standardizing the criminal criterion activity.

106. Her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence.

107. Do avoid potentially contentious subjects such as religion, sex or politics.

108. The limits on debit-card swipe fees -- one of the most contentious regulations to arise from the financial crisis -- were finalized by the Federal Reserve Board in June and take effect on Saturday.

109. Foreign investments in Indian tobacco have long been a contentious issue.

110. 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.

111. As in other debates over contentious issues, the question is to what extent over-the-top rhetoric reflects popular sentiment and to what extent popular sentiment is stirred up by rhetoric.

112. It is better to dwell in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.

113. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.

114. Mr. Sanchez's comments came Thursday during a contentious conversation with the comedian Pete Dominick on satellite radio.

115. Our practice, which builds on over 30 years' experience, is one of the most highly regarded and advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious IP.

116. Rodney was a cheerful, elegant and gregarious if rather contentious man.

117. It became a contentious domestic issue in Britain in 1970 s.

118. The conciliation proceedings is the optimization grouping which realizes the case and contentious procedure in front of the front yard, it is just with one of the best ways of efficiency to reflect.

119. The Dialer and Answering Devices meetings were so contentious that no report was published.

120. His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem so contentious and Chinese cultures so passive, when compared to each other.

121. What the OMB statement did do, however, was up the stakes in what is setting up to be a contentious, high-stakes period before the government runs out of money in a matter of weeks.

122. But the level from which output will now grow is more contentious.

123. The explanation of contracts is a contentious clause interpreted by the court or the arbitration tribunal.

124. Proposals to eliminate tariffs entirely on some industrial goods are also a contentious issue.

125. The contentious vote has raised tensions in the South American country.