Sharpness, it turns out, is a surprisingly complex and contentious notion.
"Vaccination of wild apes is certainly a new and somehow contentious notion," says Boesch.
The new formulation is less determinate and more contentious, for it relies on "meaning," an ambiguous and theoretically contentious notion.
Such a scenario would support the contentious notion (Lambert & Hoffmann, 1994; Stutzin et al, 1999; Shennan, 2008) that VRAC is molecularly distinct from a postulated volume-stimulated organic osmolyte/anion channel VSOAC (Jackson & Strange, 1993).
"The Enron Corporation is used as a convenient synecdoche for the whole contentious notion of free markets, although really it was a special case," he avers, with a dose of ten-dollar vocab.
It's an entirely subjective, disagreeable and contentious notion, but I'd argue that we're in the same sad, lion-shaped boat.
Its devotees and true believers divided into groups, each of which worked on a proposal to promote, promulgate, or prototype this (currently) weird, new, and contentious notion.
This works against the popular, if contentious, notion that men are "visual," while women need an emotional connection -- or at least a narrative -- in order to derive pleasure from sex.
Purdue University officials today announced that they have completed a review on controversy swirling around Purdue nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan, the chief proponent of the contentious notion that sound waves can cause bubbles to collapse in a way that yields energy.
