Sentence examples for a hotly contested issue from inspiring English sources

The League of Conservation Voters and other environmental groups that oppose the Alaska drilling say the study should go far to offset the main argument -- new jobs -- that the Teamsters and other unions used to persuade 36 House Democrats to vote a month ago for the drilling, a hotly contested issue in Congress.

This social problem is a hotly contested issue.

But the timing is a hotly contested issue, among sleepy relatives and New York bureaucrats alike.

In 1998, Indian gambling was a hotly contested issue, with both sides spending $88 million, the nation's costliest campaign ever.

However, with the development of polyphony, beginning in the Middle Ages, it became a hotly contested issue, particularly after the invention of keyboard instruments, which have fixed tones.

And oddly, perhaps, in a city where grotesque planning decisions are often made with scarcely a murmur from the public, the fate of the zoo has turned into a hotly contested issue.

Barbecue is a hotly contested topic.

The decision by the Florida Supreme Court was an ordinary exercise in statutory interpretation, admittedly dealing with an important and hotly contested issue, but one governed by state laws that long antedate this election.

The Presbyterian church's meeting continues Friday and is scheduled include a vote on another hotly contested issue: same-sex marriage.

The sharia bill is the most hotly contested issue in a war between liberals, who want to preserve a balance between Islamic and modern values, and traditionalists who would nudge the country towards theocracy.

Dr. Levin's letter discussed pensions at length, largely because that is the most hotly contested issue in the dispute.