Sentence examples for a contentious affair from inspiring English sources

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The match promises to be a contentious affair as the Ticos struggle to remain in the mix for one of three automatic berths from the Concacaf region to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The removal of the mayor of the state's largest city by the governor would be a contentious affair, even given that Mr. Kilpatrick is facing a rising tide of resentment in Detroit and across Michigan.

Even in New York, where large-scale development is always a contentious affair, Atlantic Yards has been a long-running story of a tenacious developer and an equally implacable opposition.

The departure, although a surprise, was by no means a contentious affair.

Prior to Trump's inauguration in January, the Democratic primary for governor of Virginia was not expected to be a contentious affair.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's coronation in Philadelphia has turned into a surprisingly contentious affair.

"Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair, but the alternative three more years of destabilizing dysfunction is worse," Flynt writes.

The public comment before the moratorium vote was a seven-hour long, contentious affair fraught with numerous outbursts and raucous chants.

Last month, Ms. Richardson met with the heads of the student societies, an annual and usually contentious affair.

The arraignment underlined what observers of the 9/11 prosecutions have long suspected – that this is going to be a very drawn out and contentious affair.