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How to use contentious in a sentence

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The Crusades did manage to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights in Europe.
Otherwise, the situation could easily become much more messy and contentious.
It looks as if the only contentious affidavit is this one you are about to tell me about, Mr Douglas.
Will these be paid a hefty consultation fee, which will absorb the contentious surplus which started the kerfuffle?
Second, this shaky notion was based on a highly abstract and contentious branch of physics known as string theory.
At the same time, the new voting system will be instrumental in preventing the speaker from railroading contentious bills in a unilateral manner.
What are the contentious issues in those suggestions and are you worried the regulations may be railroaded through?
Families engaged in contentious, highly adversarial, and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well.
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.
Next time these parties meet to hash out national agreements, several contentious issues will need resolution.
It's been my impression that the prevailing contentious issues are pretty much two-sided.
The issue was expected to be contentious but the debate lasted just five minutes and was raised under Any Other Business at a meeting.
Never shy of taking risks, the series tackled such contentious issues as feminism and South African apartheid.
The nature and scope of the right to bear arms will remain contentious in the United States.
After decades of systematic study, the relationship between arms races and wars remains a contentious issue.
Other contentious issues may well keep the proposed law on the back burner during the current session as well.
The subpoena hearing, which is normally a tame affair, was contentious because the music industry sees it as a test case.
Midway through the period, he broke the scoreless tie on a contentious goal.
Perhaps the most contentious issue in this debate is the use of standardized tests to measure school performance.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
Then, he was trying not to be too contentious, but was irritated into retorting.
And meditating inordinately on light and controverted opinions, makes light, opinionative, contentious professors.
He is a curser and swearer, a nefarious pintious lyer, and a contentious person.
Ground the possession of which imports great advantage to either side, is contentious ground.
The pair were speeding away into the distant gray by the time that the contentious revellers became aware of what had happened.
His countenance had, perhaps for years, become so set in its contentious expression that it did not soften, even now when he was quiet.
He specialises in providing contentious construction advice and conducting litigation, arbitration and adjudication.
It follows that for any team there is a one in two chance of a specific contentious decision going against them.
There is nothing to indicate that he was contentious by nature.
Let them beware of the first approach of a contentious spirit.
Add thereto contentious suits, which ought to be spewed out, as the surfeit of courts.
Trademark dilution theory is one of the most contentious aspects of trademark law.
Three of these are not as contentious as Halsall appears to think, although it is true that much research has started from different premisses.
This decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal where the issue of causation, one of the elements of a delict, proved to be contentious.
Lukaszewski ABC, APR, Felloe PRSA is an expert in managing and counteracting tough, touchy, sensitive and contentious corporate communications issues.
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