Sentence examples for contentious claims from inspiring English sources

The method, known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," and the disposal of the return water has elicited contentious claims about both the science and economics of gas extraction.

There's lots of good stuff in it, as well as some contentious claims, and I'll probably mention it a couple more times this week.

Rival politicians frequently accused him of exploiting public fears about immigration, as he made contentious claims about people feeling uncomfortable living next door to Romanians and awkward when others spoke foreign languages on the train.

Peter Skyte Public member, Network Rail I leave it to other readers better equipped than I am to address some of the hugely contentious claims made by Ian Birrell.

The Vatican document repeated many of the contentious claims of a document issued in 2000 by the Vatican office on orthodoxy, which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger headed for more than two decades before being elected pope in 2005.

The unsure performance by Fallon is likely to raise questions about the aggressive way in which the Tories are making highly contentious claims about Labour that often fail to withstand scrutiny.

This is a contentious claim.

An earlier version said the most contentious claim in the Proceso account was that federal forces participated in the massacre.

Mao had bequeathed a vast new "shovel-ready" construction site for Deng's own "'great enterprise' of reform and opening up".It is a contentious claim.

That has been amended to say the most contentious claim was that federal forces participated in the attack on the students.

The most contentious claim in the story was that federal forces participated in the attack – an allegation which has not been taken up by survivors of the attack.