Insurance is less contentious, but leasing is giving companies the jitters.
The exact position of the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic has been less contentious but not without its problems.
The transformation of Buckhead, strictly a commercial venture, has proved to be less contentious.
Once everyone had agreed the rules, ran the theory, the pay game would be less contentious.
For Mr. Obama, who is to speak on Friday, the appearance is likely to be less contentious because of his new policy on deportations.
It would be unlikely that Pfizer would want to take over a combined Sanofi-Aventis because of antitrust issues, but a purchase of either company or their cast-off assets would be less contentious.
And among a largely urban electorate, issues like subsidized housing, public transportation and funding for the arts, for example, can be less contentious than in places where suburban and rural residents have to be taken into account, too.
Some reforms could be less contentious, however, including allowing foreign investors to buy government bonds, thus relieving pressure on the balance sheets of local banks.A cautious approach to liberalising the domestic financial sector is viewed as having protected India's financial institutions and thus the economy from the worst of the crisis in global financial markets.
And even philosophers who did accept calculation tended to reject Moore's ideal consequentialist values as unacceptably extravagant; if right acts promoted goods, those had to be less contentious and more empirically measurable ones such as preference-satisfaction.
Castro's amendment could be less contentious because it would not grant green cards, as the Enlist Act would.
