Sentence examples for bitterly contentious from inspiring English sources

First, sexual and reproductive questions which have been bitterly contentious.

Decades of economic difficulties and bitterly contentious debates about the role of government have both contributed to the recent protests.

Wisconsin officials announced on Friday that critics of Gov. Scott Walker had met the requirements for a recall election, starting a bitterly contentious campaign cycle all over again.

Both also agree that it would be a bitterly contentious move, politically tortuous and possibly even self-defeating in the long run.

Land acquisition for expanding cities and industry is one of the most bitterly contentious issues in India, rife with corruption and violent protests.

"The debate over the Iraq war was bitterly contentious," said Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska and, like Mr. Hagel, a Vietnam veteran.

A contentious royalist press bitterly denounced the policies of the Assembly as spoliation and the Revolutionary atmosphere as a form of anarchy.

In polls and focus groups, the organization learned boomers would support an experiment with private competition in the government-run Medicare program -- a contentious provision that many elderly people, AARP's traditional constituency, bitterly oppose.

After its contentious $25 billion merger with Compaq Computer, the board and some top executives became bitterly divided over how quickly the computer business could grow and how it should invest in the future, according to a person with direct knowledge of the divisions within the board.

They are bitterly divided.

His parents separated bitterly.