"It looked worse than it was," said De Jong of his contentious challenge on Alonso.
In Brookhaven, Supervisor Brian X . Foleyheld onto his post despite a contentious challenge from the Republican Robert DiCarlo.
The ensuing Green Movement demonstrations were the longest and most contentious challenge to the theocracy since the 1979 revolution.
Water resources management is a contentious challenge in Southern Africa.
It is bold, contentious and challenges convention.
Later that afternoon, Maria Sharapova grew contentious and challenged no fewer than five calls.
"Which means avoiding over-reliance on Westminster voices, making efforts to find new voices even if they are contentious, and challenging their own assumptions on the accepted consensus".
The purging of ballot lists before the election, the contentious and inconclusive challenges to the results, and the protracted delay in forming a new government since then have all deepened the ethnic, sectarian and societal cracks in a newly democratic state as fragile as an ancient Babylonian vase.
This bracingly contentious but spatially challenged and cursory show is worth seeing, if only because it is the first in an American museum to survey the functional and semifunctional objects designed during the last three decades by artists, in this case 18 well-known Minimalists, post-Minimalists and post-post-Minimalists.
Then he handed some roses to his sobbing wife and the pair left the stage, thus ending this year's most contentious and expensive challenge to DC's Republican establishment.
Her tenure has been so contentious, two men are challenging her re-election bid in November, the first time an incumbent president has been opposed.
