Sentence examples for contentious deliberation from inspiring English sources

"This is the most contentious deliberation I have ever been part of.

"I think we're all happy with our choice," Curtis said, after what she described as a contentious deliberation.

After years of sometimes contentious deliberation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that, if it does build a proposed $500 million underground laboratory, it will construct it at the abandoned Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota.

Monday's note from the jury was the most recent indication of contentious deliberations.

But Mr. McCrory said Wednesday that he had misgivings about the Senate's handling of the legislation, which came amid growing debates in statehouses about abortion rights after the Texas Senate drew national attention for its contentious deliberations over proposed limits.

The jury, which had been locked in sometimes contentious deliberations for two weeks, was also unable to reach a verdict on any of the counts against Pedro G. Espada, Mr. Espada's son, who also worked at the network, Soundview Health Center in the Bronx.

Though contentious deliberations are hardly unusual and though studies suggest that some 6percentt of all jury trials end in hung juries, the conduct of the juror in the Tyco case shattered two fundamental premises of the system: at least until their deliberations are concluded, juries are meant to be faceless wholes and their work wholly secret.

The most contentious deliberations, Ms. Fernandez said, were over the charge that Mr. Marshall had committed grand larceny by giving himself a retroactive $1 million raise in 2005 for handling his mother's fortune, claiming that he was authorized to do so under a power of attorney and that his mother had always let him set his own and her employees' salaries.

It fell to Felice to assist in fashioning plenary sessions and hand-picking the Israeli and Palestinian journalists who could contribute to the doubtless contentious deliberations while maintaining sufficient decorum to avoid references to the "Durban" debacles.

After a long and contentious jury deliberation, Mr. Espada was found to have siphoned off money from the Soundview Health Center to support a luxurious lifestyle that included lobster dinners, spa treatments and luxury car payments.

Before we could talk about the details of the most contentious policy deliberation by the more than 3,500 African National Congress delegates, we had to clear the air about what actually transpired in some of the closed sessions.