Sentence examples for contentious environments from inspiring English sources

"I've been in some, I don't want to say hostile, but very contentious environments" in recent months, Mr. Meyer said.

"The energy of the labor movement pretty much got concentrated on the university, so it led to a contentious environment".

In a contentious environment, the law has even invaded the intensive care unit, influencing the decisions of physicians concerning the withdrawal of treatment or the determination of death.

Just two minutes into the match, Lampard was already feeling the boots of Dax McCarty, Felipe and company, creating a contentious environment that set the tone for the evening.

"In the potentially contentious environment surrounding the R.N.C., a firearm unnecessarily increases the threat of imminent harm and injury to the residents and visitors of the city," he wrote to the governor.

Institution design gives some legislators disproportionately greater power, and jurisdictional requirements often create a contentious environment forcing lobbyists to lobby their ideological opponents.

Tyler said that the contentious environment was not conducive to nurturing talent.

The current contentious environment will result in an increasingly smaller windows for conflict resolution before they are pushed into the legal arena.

To facilitate decision-making in this contentious environment, adaptive management was initiated with a goal of identifying a sustainable horseshoe crab harvest strategy that protects red knots and enables learning about how the system functions (McGowan et al. 2009, 2011).

In some municipalities with strong political leadership and less contentious political environments, decentralisation did not result in a deterioration of primary care services.

"Despite the contentious political environment and the difficulties in coming to an agreement — even if it's not the ideal one — they still reached an agreement which we think is a turning point in fiscal policy," said Steven Hess, the lead analyst on U.S. government debt at Moody's.