Sentence examples for chief contention from inspiring English sources

The chief contention of Mr. Mourdock and other angry debtholders was that unsecured creditors, notably the United Auto Workers union, were unfairly being paid ahead of investors who owned pieces of Chrysler's $6.9 billion in first-lien debt.

His chief contention was that PSG – like Real Madrid or Barcelona in Spain, or Bayern Munich, eight points clear at the top of the Bundesliga – have it relatively easy while the English Premier League, with its exhausting, competitive schedule, is the one true test.

His chief contention was the existence of a hereditary, or atavistic, class of criminals who are in effect biological throwbacks to a more primitive stage of human evolution.

There are, inevitably, points of contention, disputed penalty calls, strangely disallowed goals that the Milan chief executive might have played up.

Autonomy was the chief point of contention, but not the only one.

The chief point of contention is residuals -- the amount of money paid to writers for subsequent use of their scripts after a movie's initial run or a television show's initial broadcast.

One of the chief areas of contention in Hollywood labor negotiations is the rate of residuals that actors, writers and directors receive from DVD's, whose sales and rentals have exploded since the last contract was negotiated.

The chief bone of contention was over the "school" that Kitaj had assembled-a personal selection of artists who had chosen to live in the city-and his coinage was subjected to semantic quibbling which has not ceased to this day.

The opposition has certainly cited economic conditions as a major grievance, but the chief point of contention is President Alexander Ankvab's more liberal (relatively speaking) policy towards ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia, primarily concentrated in the Gali region.

Sources familiar with the situation say the chief point of contention is a union demand for changes in the system of submitting workplace disputes during the life of a contract to binding arbitration.

The pontiff even raised the issue of his papal authority, one of the chief points of theological contention between Roman Catholic and Eastern churches.