Sentence examples for apple of contention from inspiring English sources
Visit the Clore galleries at Tate Britain and you see Frazer's Turner in paintings whose very titles, such as Apollo and Python, or The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides, are relics of a classical culture we've almost lost.
I told Debby there was no way I could skirt-around the contentious political agenda and religious biases -- the "bones of contention" or "apples of discord" -- that surround her father, Pat Boone, one of the most successful Pop singers of all time.
Another point of contention for Time Inc.'s parent company, Time Warner, was the control Apple wielded over pricing, and the 30 percent commission it demanded for magazine subscriptions bought through its App Store.
But bones of contention remain, notably insurance.
They've hated themselves out of contention.
Canada is 14th, surely out of contention.
There lies the bone of contention.
Clothing was also a point of contention.
Such losses are the cost of contention.
