The phrase "a highly contested issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a topic or subject that is the focus of significant disagreement or debate among individuals or groups.
Example: "The proposed changes to the education system have become a highly contested issue among parents, teachers, and policymakers."
Alternatives: "a fiercely debated topic" or "a contentious matter".
How to handle interviews with fringe and extreme voices is a highly contested issue.
Since the 1990s the exclusive right to use Internet domain names has been a highly contested issue.
These are among the fundamental reasons why the character of the Israeli state remains a highly contested issue within Israel itself.
The regulation of selenium pollution is, for example, a highly contested issue in mountaintop coal mining in West Virginia and in agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley in California.
Mr Gul is very similar to Mr Erdogan he has pursued very much the same political career and his wife, like Mr. Erdogan's, wears a veil, a highly contested issue in secularised Turkey.But while Islamic influence these days is synonymous with backwardness, under the AKP Turkey has seen remarkable economic growth and modernisation.
This suggests that, even leaving aside the fact that that rate of overdiagnosis is a highly contested issue, the concept itself is difficult to understand.
Although the issue of the monetary value-versus-cultural value is a highly contested topic of debate, Stealing Shadows subliminally articulates the ever-present disparity between the two.
The Symbol case addresses a different but highly contested issue dealing with patents that are not issued until years after their filing, after others have developed marketable products.
Importantly, the application of a phylogenetic approach to discern between convergence and parallelism alleviates some of the operational difficulties of separating these two concepts, thereby allowing a meaningful, quantitative way of assessing repeated evolutionary patterns (for reviews of this highly contested issue see: [ 11- 13]).
The IWHC welcomed the explicit call in the agreed conclusions for accessible and affordable healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive health services, such as emergency contraception and safe abortion for victims of violence – another highly contested issue over the past two weeks.
