It produced the "Maastricht treaty", one of the most ambitious and contentious documents in EU history.One source of dissent was Britain.
Taking the chief doctrinal job in 1981, he moved with vigor to squash liberation theology in Latin America, cracked down on liberal theologians and in 2000 wrote the contentious Vatican document "Dominus Jesus," asserting the truth of the Catholic belief over others.
The recommendation was made public only after the City Council voted in closed session to make public a single page from the pair's contentious strategic plan document, known as the "Merrick Bobb Report," which reportedly contains an in-depth analysis of past practices of the Burbank Police Department.
So Justice John C. Egan's courtroom was a heady place if you like to hear contentious arguments about burdensome document searches.
Now it is called the House of Terror, the nation's newest and most contentious museum, designed to document how Hungarians mistreated Hungarians, first under Nazism and then, for 45 years, under Communism.
Seemingly intent on avoiding the platform nightmares of Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican nominee, Mr. Bush signaled early on that he would not seek to contest the most contentious plank in the document: the call for an end to legalized abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother.
I'd arrived in MGM, as residents call it, less than two months after national news outlets had swarmed its streets to document the contentious Senate race in which Doug Jones, a Democrat, defeated Roy S. Moore, the Republican who had been accused of harassing and assaulting teenage girls.
Hearings could be contentious, as the budget documents presented yesterday are "somewhat opaque": lacking details on expenditures that budget documents in previous years normally contained, says Dinesh Abrol, coordinator of the Sustainability Program at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
The draft was regarded as a flawed document with many contentious provisions.
After these talks, Francis will issue his "apostolic exhortation" – an authoritative document – on these contentious issues.
