Sentence examples for bitter contentions from inspiring English sources

In the absence of urgent crises or bitter contentions, the candidates huddle around the safe center like Boy Scouts around a campfire.

The Bhutto case, meanwhile, has become embroiled in bitter contention and violent intrigue.

In the case of the National Theatre and its later reworkings, this view has been a source of bitter contention.

The scope of the agency's powers, in particular, whether it should have independent ability to write and enforce rules, has been a point of bitter contention.

The process of writing a new constitution became the focus of bitter contention between the Islamists and a loose opposition comprising liberal, secular, and Christian factions.

As anyone with even a passing interest in sports knows, there has been bitter contention over the use of Native Americans as mascots.

Watt is returning to the Senate for a party that supports offshore detention, which has a legal and moral basis that remains the subject of bitter contention.

The waterfront of this small town with the big view has been a scene of bitter contention since Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in their famous duel of 1804.

There was bitter contention over how much was enough, and about the wisdom or necessity of small wars on the periphery, in places like Vietnam and Central America.

But the report gave no other details about the lurid allegations of corruption and a murder that toppled him and exposed bitter contention in the usually secretive Communist Party leadership.

In the middle of the marble palace that serves as C.P.A. headquarters (and that will serve, at least temporarily, as part of the U.S. Embassy, beginning next month), there is a painting of the World Trade Center towers — whose relevance to Operation Iraqi Freedom remains a matter of bitter contention.