Sentence examples for contentious events from inspiring English sources

Tomorrow will mark the anniversary of one of the most morally contentious events of the 20th century, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The wooden desktops are carved with barely visible images of contentious events and figures in Thai history that are brought to life when visitors sit down and start rubbing the images with a crayon on paper to reveal them in full.

The lessons that have emerged from such contentious events have indicated that the collection and use of biomedical tissue samples and related information should not be taken lightly.

Of course, that was not the most contentious event in that competition".

At the Knights of Columbus hall, the only contentious event in sight lately was a bingo game.

That dual role almost crippled the race before it started and made it the most contentious event on this year's calendar.

In another contentious event, a private advocacy group, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, regained its seat in one of the roundtable discussions outside the General Assembly after Canada, Norway and Sweden pressed its case.

The two candidates for state comptroller yesterday held their first and only debate, a contentious event that had Alan G. Hevesi and John J. Faso criticizing each other in the combative language and tones of their television commercials.

Even before Trump spoke, the rally was a contentious event.

After Tuesday's contentious event, Brat told the Post, "I thought it was going to be worse".

But as one audience member put it, "you keep going on about middle-income families but almost a quarter of the population in your district is living below the poverty line, so what does that do for them?" Watch more of the contentious event below, courtesy of North State Public Radio.