Sentence examples for contentious fight from inspiring English sources

Less than a mile away, Republicans gathered for a much more contentious fight.

The most contentious fight during the hearing was over cuts to food stamps.

As Bill Clinton's assistant attorney general, you sought to break Microsoft into two parts in a very contentious fight.

— MICHAEL D. SHEAR The Republican candidates just avoided what could have been a contentious fight over harsh interrogation techniques.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in southern Nevada, where a costly and contentious fight is playing out for six electoral votes.

MOSCOW — American farmers are getting an unexpected windfall from a contentious fight between Russia and Belarus, a former Soviet splinter state.

The possibility of contentious fights over things like misspellings of Ms. Murkowski's name remained.

Judiciary The most contentious fights with the new Democratic majority may come on judicial nominations.

A federal panel renamed a central Phoenix mountain for the first American Indian woman to die in combat while serving in the American military, ending one of the country's most contentious fights over a place name.

(And if there are now contentious fights over district lines to elect one more congressperson, imagine if at stake was also electing the president).

Vice President Mike Pence had to cast a tie-breaking vote, bringing it to 51-50 in favor of approving DeVos, signaling the end to one of the more contentious fights over one of Trump's Cabinet appointees, Politico reports.