Sentence examples for a contentious split from inspiring English sources

The I.R.L., formed by the speedway's president, Tony George, after a contentious split with CART in 1996, had already decided to implement new rules for engines, chassis and gearboxes for the 2003 season to make the cars safer.

So when Dick and Liz said of a contentious split in beliefs, they "dealt with it privately," they meant it same way most families do: they didn't deal with it at all.

The left-leaning Socialist Party's major problem is François Hollande, the most unpopular French President of the modern era, who has presided over a contentious split in his Party over the question of whether France's economic troubles call for a move to the right.

Heather Podesta, whose divorce from fellow super-lobbyist Tony Podesta is shaping up to be a contentious split, says in a new court filing that she wasn't the only one moving on to a new relationship as the couple's marriage unraveled.

With less than a week remaining until the Electoral College is to cast its votes, the justices in the core ruling that the Florida court was wrong to order a recount found a way to speak with one voice, avoiding a contentious split, but no sooner had they done so than they started bickering again among themselves.

It also marks the second occasion in roughly a year in which Hendricks has dropped a contentious split verdict in Las Vegas, after failing in a title bid against UFC hall of famer Georges St-Pierre last November at UFC 167.

They had been told that Sturm, who earned a contentious split-decision victory over Birmingham's Matt Macklin in 2011 before holding St Helens fighter Martin Murray to a draw, was on the slide.

The Federal Communications Commission voted in a contentious three-two splitoto relax rules limiting ownership of TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers.

It's an adventure Rahal has not experienced for seven years, ever since the contentious split in the Indy car circuit between the CART and the Indy Racing League tours, leaving CART and Rahal out of the Indy 500.

Suddenly, the scene turns contentious, split between cries of "Keep playing, children" and "Don't quit your day job".

"Love on the Rocks," read the front page of the New York Daily News in the first of many stories about their contentious split.