Sentence examples for contentious figure from inspiring English sources

Troemel was a contentious figure on campus.

But despite his status, he remains a contentious figure.

But the operation made him a contentious figure in Russia.

That's what makes him such a contentious figure.

The general is a contentious figure, even among historians.

But inside Al Qaeda, the blind sheik has sometimes been a contentious figure.

Since the 1960's Ms. Vargas has been a beloved and contentious figure in Mexico.

Widely respected by most of his team-mates, Haddin is a contentious figure.

Other colorful, if contentious, figures sweeping to power included Gen. Vladimir Shamanov, a veteran of the Chechen war, and Col. Vladimir Kulakov, of the Federal Security Service, the former K.G.B.

Zhu said he had first raised the possibility of including the contentious figures, but later decided it was better to go ahead without them.

And not just any movie: a biopic about wartime Pope Pius XII, one of the most contentious figures to haunt his five-year-old papacy.