Sentence examples for contentious element from inspiring English sources

The dialogue has remained a contentious element.

Sea-level rise has been a particularly contentious element in the debate over global warming.

The Medicaid expansion is, by all accounts, the most contentious element of Ms. Brewer's proposed budget, and the proposed hospital fee its sharpest thorn.

The least contentious element of the new program may be advanced, space-based sensors that could track warheads in space but also perform other surveillance duties as well.

It would not, for example, cover the proposed $500,000 cap on after-tax contributions – the most contentious element of the package – which was still under internal negotiation.

Establishing a common backstop for the €5tn of deposits in the eurozone has proved by far the most politically contentious element of Europe's drive to form a banking union.

One of the most contentious elements of the law limits support for unemployed disabled people.

More contentious elements, like a plan to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, would be put off until next year.

The aides said the most contentious elements of a bill adopted by the House last summer were eliminated.

One of the most contentious elements of TTIP and CETA is that both deals employ a "negative list" approach.

They had to chop the defunct constitution up and rename its most contentious elements, like a planned "foreign minister".