Sentence examples for a contentious one from inspiring English sources

The line between education and enterprise has always been a contentious one — on one hand there is something to be said for entrepreneurship spurring innovation, but on the other is the idea that access to good education, and the best we as a society have to offer, should be at the disposal of everyone, not just those who can pay.

The issue has become a contentious one between residents who want a ban on trapping on public lands and others who say a ban would be an attack on a Western way of life.

Rihanna and Chris Brown's relationship is not only hard to keep up with (are they on? Are they off?), it's also a contentious one ever since that fateful night at the Grammys four years ago.

The validity of the clinical assessment as the 'gold standard' measure on which the validation was based is a contentious one in dentistry.

While Britain has recently stepped up security at its airports and on its airplanes, the question of armed guards is a contentious one and is opposed by the powerful pilots union.

This point is still a contentious one.

The issue of ivory sales has long been a contentious one.

However badly it ended, Dr. Shaikh's brief tenure was not a contentious one.

The cost of stock options is a contentious one in many ways.

The literary prize suggests a rarefied world, but it can also be a contentious one.

I was watching a Republican debate it was a particularly contentious one, and the talk of a contested convention was getting more heated, and I thought, Wow, I wonder how they'd feel about having open carry there?