Sentence examples for contentious comments from inspiring English sources

How can you justify this?" For this, and other brave and contentious comments, the presidential hopeful had plenty of admirers.

According to Mr. Shiamili's complaint, filed about a week after the contentious comments went up, the Web site published "false and defamatory statements of fact" that were "intended to injure Shiamili's reputation and destroy Ardor".

The statement also condemned as "unacceptable" that a video of Walker making her contentious comments was given to the press, and argued that she should not be expelled from the Labour party.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Representative Todd Akin, abandoned by the Republican establishment after his contentious comments on rape months ago, is receiving an influx of more than $2 million in the final days of his campaign against incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: "Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can't get out of it for generations?

On the other side of the velvet rope in the queue for heaven's guestlist (and it is not for us to speculate as to whose arrival at the clipboard will be met with a stern "Your name's not down, you're not coming in"), the death of Malcolm McLaren was, appropriately enough, the cue for all manner of contentious comments.

The contentious comment took place after the Top Gear hosts built a bridge over the River Kwai on the border of Thailand and Burma.

Anyone with even the vaguest interest in fashion should know by now that Karl just loves to wind folk up with the odd contentious comment that plays up the ivory-tower-designer schtick.

Due to the dramatically reduced frames of her young friends Mary-Kate Olsen and Nicole Richie, Zoe was recently credited with 'single-handedly bringing anorexia back into fashion', a contentious comment that, though uncharitable in intention, implies an enormous degree of influence: it's not just about sunglasses - Rachel Zoe can shift the popularity of an entire psychiatric condition.

This could potentially be a pretty powerful tool — while users might normally pass over an article that they're only mildly interested in, an insightful or contentious comment could catch their eye and lead them to leave a comment of their own.

Several MPs on the committee dissented from the contentious accompanying comments in the report that News Corp said were "unjustified and highly partisan".