Sentence examples for avoid contentious from inspiring English sources
The desire to avoid contentious issues is seen behind Mr. Obama's decision to curb his time here.
Instead, lawmakers, eager to present a united front, are trying to avoid contentious issues in the wake of Tuesday's attacks.
In Westminster as in Frome, most elected officials toe their party line and avoid contentious issues; maintaining the status quo to the detriment of progressive debate.
But lest anyone think they avoid contentious subjects: since being spurred to action by Pope John Paul II, the friars have episodically protested at abortion clinics in Westchester.
Both Mr. McGuinness and Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, seemed deliberately to avoid contentious language and to try to include the dead of other communities in the reverence of the occasion.
Given the way his England tenure became embroiled, eventually to crash and burn, in events surrounding John Terry, you may think he would want to avoid contentious situations in his new role as head coach of Russia.
With the battle over taxes and estate planning techniques about to heat up, one type of planning vehicle has avoided contentious debate: the special-needs trust.
Especially when talking to Western journalists, it avoids contentious issues such as the imposition of sharia law and its harsher punishments, such as stoning for adultery.
Shakespeare avoided contentious political and religious issues to dubiously illustrate Tudor England as having rejected medieval conflict and entered an era of harmony and prosperity.
But while avoiding contentious subjects may temporarily avoid disagreement, it also maintains the status quo -- and when the status quo is injustice, civility only serves to perpetuate that injustice.
He avoided contentious individual issues, instead focusing on overarching candidate themes, and, as he famously did for years, allowed pundits and politicians to prove themselves inconsistent through the use of archival video footage of the pundits and politicians themselves.
