But it was a less contentious race than the one two years ago.
Because many utilities' profit margins were regulated in 1990, the distribution was a less contentious issue when Congress set up the acid rain program.
On the face of it, landscape is a less contentious means of definition, since our islands have distinct and indisputable features.
In a recent interview via e-mail, Ms. Lepore discussed why death is a less contentious subject than conception, why the word "parenthood" had to be invented and more.
She was a less contentious choice for the prize than another nominee on the short list, Edward J. Snowden, the American intelligence contractor whose revelations about American and British electronic surveillance have angered those governments.
In recent years it has been a less contentious ceremony, used to mark her silver and golden jubilees in 1977 and 2002, and the reopening of the restored Commons chamber in 1950 after it was hit in Blitz.
She is a less contentious and more media-savvy presence than her father, but has taken advantage of xenophobic currents and a sense of populist disgruntlement in French society to take second place, in polls, ahead of Sarkozy and behind Strauss-Kahn.
Michael McConnell was a less contentious choice.
Treatment of elderly NSCLC patients with cisplatin-based regimens has been a less contentious matter nowadays but toxicity remains a major issue.
