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Sentence count:125+1Posted:2016-10-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: combativedisputatiousdisputativelitigiousSimilar words: a bone of contentionconscientiouscontentintentionlicentiouspay attention tocontendconstitutional conventionMeaning: [-ʃəs]  adj. 1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits 2. involving or likely to cause controversy. 
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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.
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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.
More similar words: a bone of contentionconscientiouscontentintentionlicentiouspay attention tocontendconstitutional conventioncontinuouscontinentattentioninterventionconventionconventionalcontextcontestintentcontinuecontinuedsentencecontinuingambitiousbumptiouspotentialcontemplatepotentiallycontemporarysubconsciouslyconsciousnessintermittent
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