Sentence examples for contentious dispute. from inspiring English sources

When two parties are attempting to resolve a contentious dispute, the most effective peacemakers may be those at the highest levels.

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.

Mr. Clinton's decision to reverse Mr. Christopher has been known for some time, but the documents made public today provide a glimpse into how the National Security Council designed a plan to reconcile a contentious dispute between two Cabinet Secretaries.

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.

We have recently seen an increase in contentious disputes, some public and many not, between companies and their debt investors.

But confidentiality agreements are often part of settlements in contentious disputes between employers and employees, or former employees.

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

We have seen more contentious disputes between borrowers and activists recently spurred in part by the activists' position in credit default swaps.