The Crusades did manage to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights in Europe. |
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Otherwise, the situation could easily become much more messy and contentious. |
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It looks as if the only contentious affidavit is this one you are about to tell me about, Mr Douglas. |
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Will these be paid a hefty consultation fee, which will absorb the contentious surplus which started the kerfuffle? |
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Second, this shaky notion was based on a highly abstract and contentious branch of physics known as string theory. |
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At the same time, the new voting system will be instrumental in preventing the speaker from railroading contentious bills in a unilateral manner. |
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What are the contentious issues in those suggestions and are you worried the regulations may be railroaded through? |
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Families engaged in contentious, highly adversarial, and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well. |
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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. |
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Next time these parties meet to hash out national agreements, several contentious issues will need resolution. |
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It's been my impression that the prevailing contentious issues are pretty much two-sided. |
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The issue was expected to be contentious but the debate lasted just five minutes and was raised under Any Other Business at a meeting. |
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Never shy of taking risks, the series tackled such contentious issues as feminism and South African apartheid. |
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The nature and scope of the right to bear arms will remain contentious in the United States. |
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After decades of systematic study, the relationship between arms races and wars remains a contentious issue. |
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Other contentious issues may well keep the proposed law on the back burner during the current session as well. |
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The subpoena hearing, which is normally a tame affair, was contentious because the music industry sees it as a test case. |
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Midway through the period, he broke the scoreless tie on a contentious goal. |
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Perhaps the most contentious issue in this debate is the use of standardized tests to measure school performance. |
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Once you get over the self-conscious notion that this is a pastime for septuagenarians, it turns out to be enjoyable and mildly contentious. |
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It is not easy for third parties to intervene in bilateral contentious litigation. |
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After the conclusion of any contentious business carried out for a client, a solicitor must show on a bill of costs to be given to a client. |
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I therefore agree that the client care letter or any contentious business agreement should be attached to the bill of costs. |
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The most contentious, emotional and bitter arguments between the two parties often touch upon race. |
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He said the money from the land tax will be used for land reform, a contentious issue in the country. |
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The group as a whole has an incentive to keep the signal-to-noise ratio low and the conversation informative, even when contentious. |
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At precisely the same time, the young artist Theodore Gericault was searching for a contentious contemporary subject to monumentalise on canvas. |
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Up until this season the umpire closest to any suspicious or contentious incident would review the game tape and lay a charge if warranted. |
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Further frustration came when an equalising goal was disallowed by a contentious umpire decision. |
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This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country. |
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Its ramifications are contentious, and the principle's formulation is sufficiently elastic to accommodate a variety of constructions. |
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In a very rare, but not unprecedented move, the US Patent Office has nullified a contentious technology patent. |
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Since then, some critics have objected to the editors' contentious remarks and their narrow definition of Asian American literature. |
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Lack of car parking facilities continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the town. |
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As Bob Phelps mentioned, the size of the buffer zone separating GE and non GE crops on farms is contentious. |
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As more and more Indian and Pakistani businesses opened along Oak Tree Road and its byroads, parking became a contentious issue. |
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It is also pretty candid and honest and written by someone who writes well, even if what he is saying is sometimes contentious. |
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However, tolerance is a complex and even contentious concept open to several interpretations. |
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Whenever a politician takes a definite and contentious view on any issue, he or she is castigated for daring to articulate that opinion. |
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The marching by Orangemen through nationalist areas has been contentious since the organisation's inception. |
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The scheduled sessions had gone badly, both men playing a game of chicken as they moved from one contentious issue to another. |
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Putting humor to such politically hot and contentious issues is the best way to keep them in perspective. |
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The need to accommodate tramways was the reason for another hugely contentious scheme. |
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Most, if not all, of the contentious points have been resolved by the factions in the House. |
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One early sign of inadequately handled conflict is a lack of discussion about contentious topics. |
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In fact anomalous monism has proved to be a highly contentious position drawing criticism from both physicalists and non-physicalists alike. |
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One of the most contentious subjects in modern physics has been quantum mechanics. |
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The second area of concern is the contentious issue of passenger endorsements on licences for taxi drivers and bus drivers. |
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While these two terms declare themselves throughout, their strife is a contentious collusion, less apocalyptic than initiatory. |
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The contentious issue goes back 26 years to when Gulf Park used to be a finishing school for girls. |
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Analogous battles over school finance issues will likely become just as contentious and prolonged. |
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This last piece of evidence is particularly contentious and likely to feature prominently in the appeal. |
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Climate change legislation remained contentious and it seems likely that it will studied to death until it's too late to do anything. |
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It would impose an impossible burden on a jobbing printer to have to employ an in-house lawyer to vet contentious or controversial material. |
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I shall therefore summarise the parties' respective arguments on these contentious issues. |
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Some of the most contentious and disputed issues of our day are matters of bioethics. |
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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. |
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As I stated in the opening paragraph of my article, the issue is contentious and controversial. |
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There was no winner in Thursday night's debate, which was the most contentious of the four debates held so far. |
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The transgene contamination is certain to fuel the contentious debate over the use of genetically modified crops. |
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Thus, the structural trigger for detailed public debate on contentious matters would be gone. |
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It will spark months of contentious debate in Congress, where lawmakers will fight to protect their favored programs. |
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Frank, how do Americans view the very contentious debates over teaching evolution and intelligent design? |
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Her request was made during a contentious debate about raising admissions standards at Nevada's public institutions, which she opposes. |
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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. |
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As well, the contentious debate over the full disclosure of vulnerabilities will continue to rage amongst security stakeholders. |
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I feel somewhat guilty for dismissing what is certainly a very contentious debate in a few lines yesterday. |
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In 1996, after much contentious debate, Congress passed historic welfare reform legislation. |
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The development of regulations and guidelines for the emerging technologies has led to a contentious public debate about genetic engineering. |
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Nowhere is the debate more lively and contentious than in psychiatric genetics, but in truth there is a dearth of substantiated, empirical data. |
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In the commentaries that precede the extracts, the editor is at pains to present potentially contentious figures as unanimously acclaimed. |
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Cadorna would become one of the most contentious figures in the history of the war. |
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He was, and remains, a contentious figure, accused by some of scheming and power-mongering. |
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We have always been a contentious people without any hesitation to tear down our leaders. |
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At about the same time, the Pentagon's exultation of a contentious personality reflected an increasingly codified belief in speed. |
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A strongly contentious figure, he garnered many enemies as well as advocates. |
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A contentious or belligerent personality toward others is indicative of hyper-sensitivity and a feeling of never being fully understood. |
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The book fails to portray the bawdy and contentious woman who wanted always to be on center stage. |
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The Greeks did not have the capacity to write philosophy, because they were a contentious people. |
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A blow to the nose, sharply given by an experienced pastor during a congregational debate, can put a contentious layperson into a stupor. |
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As between solicitor and client in both contentious and non-contentious costs the taxing officer starts with the retainer. |
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A still more contentious area surrounds the question whether the defendants, or either of them, should be permitted to make purchases. |
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My Lord, you will be aware of the contentious nature of this litigation between the parties. |
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Are there other examples of the Supreme Court resolving contentious moral questions based on ambiguous constitutional text? |
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Very competent counsel represented the parties and settled many of the contentious matters. |
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Of course, there would be limits to this freedom, such as where a party is giving contentious evidence in an arbitration. |
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The century-old organization used to be at the mercy of the often contentious parties in Italy's coalition governments. |
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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. |
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When counsel appears as a witness on a contentious matter, it causes two problems. |
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They are inapplicable to orders made by a court of unlimited jurisdiction in the course of contentious litigation. |
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The Convention has thus not resolved some of the contentious extraterritorial claims by some states. |
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We must find an accord, even if it involves the imposition of peace keeping force between the contentious parties. |
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The most contentious item was a 2,600 home cinema system including a 40 in flat-screen television. |
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He was rash, arrogant and obstinate, contentious, envious and malicious, covetous and corrupt. |
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She's the sort of contentious cuss who would be flipping the bird to the courts no matter what the circumstances. |
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While the futurology may be contentious, I believe there are considerable merits in the cautionary approach outlined in this book. |
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The more contentious of the two is the Women's Reservation Bill, which decrees a one-third reservation of parliamentary seats for women. |
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It was stated that contentious propositions are often highly offensive to the public in general. |
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The proposed democratization in a field that had previously recognized providers as the sole authority was very contentious. |
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He writes well, and prudently avoids antagonizing others engaged in dealing with this very contentious subject. |
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It's potentially a contentious process, so, yes, people will be duking it out in various ways. |
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Arguments over final salaries and divvying up the remaining assets became painfully contentious. |
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Filmmaker Diana Whitten trailed Gomperts for seven years, capturing contentious missions to Spain and Morocco. |
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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. |
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Mr Wearing said he expected there would be a higher number of contentious applications that would increase demands on the committee, its sub-committee, clerks and consultees. |
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I don't like breaches and I am not a particularly contentious person at all, but if my back is against the wall I can certainly muster all my inner forces. |
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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. |
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Members have a right to debate these contentious issues thoroughly. |
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These were complex, troubled, frequently contentious people. |
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What these beneficiaries of social mobility urged on contentious workers was pious resignation, and in no city did they sermonize more harshly than in Rouen. |
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The most contentious issue is likely to be a provision encouraging commissioners to facilitate voluntary co-operation by witness to be heard in private. |
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In the long run the most contentious issue is likely to be wages. |
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By midnight though, the contentious page remained unaltered. |
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Of course controversies and contentious issues have emerged. |
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Thus the issue remains contentious and unresolved at this time. |
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It was the first case brought under the voting Rights Act, so the hearing proved contentious. |
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But in the Democratic Party, people who take contentious positions are weeded out. |
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The alleged move has apparently sparked rumors that Wintour and Westwood have a contentious relationship. |
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That is a very real concern, as is the fact that the Minister has the power to resolve any contentious or unresolved issues to do with scopes of practice. |
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Although Tanzania is one of the least densely populated countries in eastern Africa, control and access to productive lands has become an increasingly contentious issue. |
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The yearlong deliberations occur mostly online, with three mostly civil, occasionally contentious in-person board meetings a year. |
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They lectured on the tenets of the Newtonian system and valiantly defended contentious issues of Newtonian natural philosophy against attacks from critics. |
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Lin suggested that the legislature could initially review only funds to control the epidemic and leave more contentious issues for further discussion. |
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This article examines the contentious and frequently litigious relationship between convents and the families of professed nuns in early-modern Spain. |
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Mark is a member of the firm's regional construction and engineering group having specialised in contentious and non-contentious construction law for over ten years. |
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And what inspiration will a new CEO bring to that very contentious party? |
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After a contentious debate, members of the committee finally voted to approve the funding. |
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If he says something overtly contentious on Twitter about rape and pedophilia, what does he expect? |
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As the overall economic picture in the United States continues to brighten, the job market remains a contentious issue. |
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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. |
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Other questions of organizational control are also contentious. |
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The clashes broke out after police used water cannon to disperse crowds who had gathered to protest at a contentious Orange march through the area. |
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And the commissioners wisely left untouched the most contentious issues, such as voter identification laws. |
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The priests conclude that there is common ground on even the most contentious topics that pit science versus spirituality. |
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A decision on the contentious breakwater, a rail spur for trains to offload and collect cargo, has delayed the tender process since the team first met in September last year. |
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By all accounts, her husband was contentious and physically abusive. |
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It became a model, rarely emulated, of how digital tools can be used to find common ground in a contentious society. |
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The precise derivation of the word has always been as contentious as it is obscure but it is tempting to see some shared lexical kinship with our New Year festivities. |
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Furthermore, the Prime Minister has had no difficulty in finding Parliamentary whips to organise majorities even for the most contentious legislation. |
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But Boredom, defensively subtitled A Lively History, is in fact a spirited, no-nonsense guide to a surprisingly contentious topic. |
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Perfecting this technology would not only diffuse a contentious ethical and political issue, it is also the ideal solution from a scientific perspective. |
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It's a contentious film, both in terms of style and substance. |
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The most contentious matter on which the moderates tended to side with Bowdoin and the radicals concerned Bernard's animadversions on crowd action. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Although many agreed that this system was not compatible with separation, the introduction of a new system was highly contentious and hotly debated. |
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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. |
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These contentious issues concern two perplexities in particular. |
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A small, dark, contentious people known as the Picts held sway over the islands until the eighth and ninth centuries, when Viking invaders arrived. |
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Even the contentious Two Ladies is effectively staged on a vaulting horse with the lubriciously mounted Emcee sandwiched between two female gymnasts. |
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Considering that Merritt as a singer has a contentious relationship with pitch, he is perhaps not in the greatest position to argue for the sacrosanctity of his tunes. |
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Now the tables are turned on the university's contentious president. |
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The Continuing Record extends to eleven volumes and includes serious, contentious allegations back and forth between the parties and other deponents. |
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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. |
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There are few issues more contentious than directors' share dealings. |
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The coercive powers of the State should not be employed in either side of a debate over contentious morality, but they should be employed to uphold the free choices of adults. |
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This issue is the most contentious in a laundry list of redactions Feinstein has now asked the White House to reverse. |
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The Mejdi tour was the first time Tel Aviv University student Tamar Elman had heard guides debate such contentious issues. |
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One of the most contentious no-votes came from the liberal democrat M.P. Sarah Teather. |
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In his meteoric rise through the ranks, his posting as chief constable is not his first high-profile position, and certainly not his first contentious one. |
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Since then, the state of the practice in microenterprise development has been moved forward by creative practitioners, contentious political battles and dreamers. |
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The relationship between law and ethics, from Selma to Ferguson, is tenuous, and often contentious. |
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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. |
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Jurisdiction is often a crucial question for the Court in contentious cases. |
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Jurisdiction over such matters, as well as marriages and wills remained contentious in Bracton's day. |
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Stranded Pakistanis or Biharis are a contentious dispute between Bangladesh and Pakistan. |
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They also permit countries to reach agreement on a framework that would be contentious if every detail were to be agreed upon in advance. |
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The rejection considered the most contentious was of the European Elections Bill, against which the Lords voted five times. |
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Another possibly contentious issue for post-START negotiators was the conventionalization of nuclear-capable launchers. |
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Most newspapers try to cover contentious issues even-handedly, which, while virtuous, tends to offend both sides. |
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Aside from clashes over a range of social, welfare, labour and economic policies, the most contentious topic has been universal suffrage. |
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These points have been contentious, particularly from the 1930s to the 1950s in athletics, and until the 1970s in cycling. |
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Recognition of the Irish border was politically contentious and unpopular with Irish nationalists. |
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The most contentious issue at Dumbarton and in successive talks proved to be the veto rights of permanent members. |
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On 22 February, the bridge was demolished to prevent its capture, a decision that has since been extremely contentious. |
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The military and political results of the Burma campaign have been contentious on the Allied side. |
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The Gibraltar Football Association applied for full membership of UEFA, but their bid was turned down in 2007 in a contentious decision. |
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As a result, the trend for unicameralism as well as other political system reforms are more contentious in the Philippines. |
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The saltire has occasionally served unofficially to represent Northern Ireland and been considered less contentious than other flags flown there. |
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The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a contentious area in theory and in popular political movements. |
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Several contentious clauses, including one that allowed for only one political party, were changed in the following years. |
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The Army was a deeply unpopular profession, one contentious issue being pay. |
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Nevertheless, the place of local Cantonese language and culture remains contentious. |
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Demutualizing is highly complicated, cumbersome, costly, and, often, contentious. |
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The strength of his sincere belief in the tenets of this movement led him to ignore the more contentious side of its dogma. |
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However, this point is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship. |
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That court would sedulously avoid meeting contentious issues and would sit in resplendent dignity aloof from the issues of the day. |
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The Zaha Hadid-designed Aquatics Centre provides the wow factor for London's Olympics but its legacy is contentious. |
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There were contentious debates over the clipper chip, online wire tapping, and encryption. |
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They always require Treasury approval because they are usually novel, contentious and potentially repercussive. |
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Three noted scriptwriters of the Hindi film industry shed light on the contentious issue. |
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The question of the hierarchical exclusion of ADHD in the presence of pervasive developmental disorders is a contentious one. |
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Although the subject is contentious, a number of considerations suggest that human activities were pivotal. |
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The Australian Cricket Board have called for the increased use of new technology in an attempt to reduce contentious leg before wicket decisions. |
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Quebec's identity has been contentious since the 1760s when the British completed their takeover of what was then called New France. |
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The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction. |
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Occasionally, the author editorializes or provides critical analysis on more contentious topics such as Thatcherism. |
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Since the Peace of Westphalia, the Upper Rhine formed a contentious border between France and Germany. |
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The issue remains contentious, though most analysts resist the model that technology simply is a result of scientific research. |
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Arkansas has long had a contentious relationship with alcohol. |
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The proposal touches on many aspects of the contentious tollway reform debate, including the restructuring of the tollway's huge debt burden. |
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The dispute involves one of the region's most contentious leaders. |
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Mostly contentious, borders may even foster the setting up of buffer zones. |
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Equally contentious has been discussion about the date of the khaganate's disintegration. |
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Article 31 of the statute sets out a procedure whereby ad hoc judges sit on contentious cases before the Court. |
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A comprehensive survey is further complicated by sometimes contentious membership and identification. |
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In the Anglican church in the 19th century, the role of ritual became a contentious matter. |
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The death penalty there remains a contentious issue which is hotly debated. |
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Free trade proved contentious, as did the issue of equal rights before the law. |
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The creation of a national flag proved contentious, designs acceptable to one side typically offending the other. |
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That was renamed the Family Division when the admiralty and contentious probate business were transferred elsewhere. |
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In practice, however, such decisions are made in contentious cases only after a reference is made to the House of Lords. |
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Unfavourable comparisons between National Health Service waiting lists in England and Wales were a contentious issue in the first and second Assemblies. |
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The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. |
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The relationships between these three lineages is contentious, and all three possible different hypotheses have been proposed with respect to which group is basal. |
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This tendency gives this dual federalism model a number of traits that generally are ascribed to confederalism, and makes the future of Belgian federalism contentious. |
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A single judge can handle normal contentious and penal cases. |
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And the 82nd-minute winner, direct from Adam Worton's corner kick, was equally contentious as the home side complained it should have been a goal kick. |
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That would normally bode well for Senate passage, except the lame duck session will have some much more contentious, much bigger issues taking up its very limited time. |
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New Latin American Cinema both feeds into and is fed by the contentious and at times contradictory nature of Latin American culture, social politics, and economy. |
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The scene of a tinhorn gambler popping one of these slick little argument-settlers out of his sleeve during a contentious poker game is a staple of the horse opera. |
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Mitch Daniels has revived a contentious proposal to lease the Hoosier Lottery to a private operator, saying the money could fund a proposed college scholarship program. |
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Limited housing availability is a contentious yet critical issue for the Isles of Scilly, especially as it affects the feasibility of residency on the islands. |
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This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended. |
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After contentious protests, gambling was illegalised by the legislature. |
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The legal argument was complex at the time and remains contentious. |
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This perspective on their imperial past only recently shifted with prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende's contentious call for the return of the VOC mentality. |
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However, evolution remains a contentious concept for some theists. |
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Providing dating for this distant period is difficult and contentious. |
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With these linked themes in the background, he wrote a long series of contentious biographies of historical figures, including Oliver Cromwell, James II, and Napoleon. |
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The Centre will not shy away from contentious issues like conversion, proselytising, extremism and fundamentalism and will pursue honest conversation. |
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In addition, the decline of Socialism and the fall of Communism in the late 1980s had removed much of the support for some of the more contentious Part XI provisions. |
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