Sentence examples for contentious dispute from inspiring English sources

The raid nonetheless set the stage for a potentially contentious dispute at a time when American troops are preparing to withdraw.

But it has re-emerged 30 years later at the center of an esoteric but messily contentious dispute about screenwriting credits involving faculty members at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.

In addition to the dozen years he spent in Albany as governor, Cuomo was appointed by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1972 to mediate a contentious dispute over low-income public housing in the Forest Hills section of Queens.

By the time Walter Chaplinsky stepped onto the corner in Rochester, the Jehovah's Witnesses were at the center of a contentious dispute over the meanings of free speech and freedom of religion.

Five months after the Senate Intelligence Committee began its review of prewar intelligence on Iraq, a contentious dispute broke out on the Senate floor on Wednesday as the panel's top Republican and Democrat traded accusations of bad faith.

Several trustees said the board, which is a fiercely nonpartisan group, is trying to resist getting caught in the middle of a contentious dispute between members of the Clinton and Bush administrations.

On another front, contentious disputes over disputed areas, hydrocarbon rights, and budget have exacerbated relations between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to a level where the two sides came close to a military conflict.

The accord, which revises a decades-old agreement, resolves one of the two allies' most contentious disputes.

Mr. Obama's remarks on Thursday were aimed at rebooting the discussion after months in which attention shifted to concerns about Iran and Syria and contentious disputes at home with the House Republicans that led to a government shutdown.

One of the most contentious disputes is over a proposed wet-cooled trough plant that NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of the utility giant FPL Group, plans to build in a dry area east of Bakersfield, Calif.

At the end of one particularly rancorous session with his American counterparts, Brooke wrote in his diary, "Another poisonous day!" One of the longest-running and most contentious disputes concerned when and where to open a second front in Western Europe.