Sentence examples for contentious action from inspiring English sources

The EPA will take far more ambitious, and contentious, action in June 2014 when it proposes new rules to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants, which are the country's single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

His most contentious action came two decades later, when he became the handler of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy who pleaded guilty in 1986 to selling classified intelligence to Israel.

The Major Episodes of Contention project (a data project run by Professor Erica Chenoweth at the University of Denver) suggests that nonviolent resistance campaigns have become the modal category of contentious action worldwide.

The 27 regulators, led by France's CNIL, gave Google three to four months to make changes to its privacy policy — or face "more contentious" action.

The most contentious action came in the second game as Hoover raced out to an 8-3 advantage fueled by a pair of aces from senior John Tranquena.

The most contentious action from the NLRB this year had nothing to do with Liebman at all, although she wound up caught in the crossfire.

Many of his most contentious actions – a tough-on-crime bill that sent incarceration rates soaring, stand-your-ground gun laws, protection of corporate interests, attacks on union rights and many more – have borne the Alec seal of approval.

Many of Walker's most contentious actions – a tough-on-crime bill that sent incarceration rates soaring, stand-your-ground gun laws, protection of corporate vested interests, attacks on union rights and many more – have borne the Alec seal of approval.

And in the polls, contentious actions receive negative favor.

And cameras can also clarify the often-contentious actions of armed police.Yet the new kit also brings challenges.

Revolutions are historically rare, whereas contentious collective action, centered on social movements, is a broader theoretical field.