The effort is likely to take years, and to be contentious from beginning to end.
The workplace regulations covering what is called ergonomics have taken a tortuous and contentious path, beginning a decade ago when then-Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole started the rule-making process.
But, as relations between the Senate and the White House became more contentious, Presidents began to do it more often.
Some of the most contentious cases begin in state courts but are then allowed to migrate to federal courts.At the top of this hierarchy sits the Supreme Court.
The stranger is fidgety and anxious, and at first Changez's elaborate self-justifications for his contentious sentiments begin to suggest that perhaps he is a more sinister figure than he allows.
Mailer wrote two erotically hyper-charged novels in this period, "The American Dream" and "Why Are We in Vietnam?," but, as the country's mood became hotly contentious, he began writing an expansive new form of journalism, which, for its evocative power and philosophical reach, has never been equalled.
As Raw Story reported, a particularly contentious exchange began when state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, the only Democrat to testify, explained her opposition to the bill by reading letters from her constituents.
SABMiller's play for Foster's has been contentious from the beginning.
The incarceration of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay was highly contentious from the beginning.
The withdrawal ends an unusually public and contentious debate that began when the president declared in a televised interview in June that Mr. Bernanke would depart, opening the replacement process to public scrutiny before a nominee was even named.
