Sentence examples for before contentious from inspiring English sources
With less than a month to go before contentious polls, Nigeria is facing a perfect storm.
Others describe people who had committed no crimes before contentious encounters with police landed them in jail.
The visit comes as Trump struggles to balance appeals for national unity with partisan campaign rhetoric just a week before contentious midterm elections.
The rock formations in Texas and North Dakota were thought to be largely fruitless propositions before contentious exploration methods involving horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — the blasting of water, chemicals and sand through rock to free oil inside, known as fracking — gained momentum.
Even before the contentious talks actually started, U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani scheduled a meeting that took months to arrange.
Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the introduction of internment, and it was also the morning before a contentious annual parade by dissidents in Ballymena.
The guidance leaves it to each individual university to decide what period of notice is required before a contentious meeting is allowed to go ahead.
He made his last payment to the London institution in March 2002, before the contentious payments are alleged to have been made.
But speaking just before the contentious vote, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said that those calling to reopen the rescue deal against the wishes of the European Central Bank were "living in fantasy land".
I don't remember being open to such input when as a 22-year-old hopeful I was with the last England (pedantically, 'MCC') team to visit South Africa before the contentious but wholly correct refusal to 'play with apartheid'.
Others are questioning the wisdom of sacking Mackay, who had overseen victories over Manchester City, Swansea, West Brom and Fulham and creditable draws with Everton and Manchester United before his contentious departure.
