The maneuver is apparently intended to distract attention from more contentious issues -- including gold looted by the Nazis and stashed in Swiss institutions, and deposits related to slave labor -- that would imply wider Swiss complicity in Jewish suffering.
Given the importance of high-quality airway management in the critically ill, for whom time is of the essence and the consequences of failed intubation are at their most serious [ 2], this challenge to the gold standard is contentious.
It had not seemed likely to end that way when China's Sun Yang, another with a contentious doping record, stormed to 200m freestyle gold.
Economics is often a contentious subject, but economists agree about the gold standard -- it is a barbarous relic that belongs in the dustbin of history.
(Until last month, financing also came from I.C.C.A.'s one other regular client, the mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, with which its relationship became contentious.
Jean-Noel Ferrari came from behind in the last bout to lead France to the Olympic men's team foil gold medal over China on a contentious final touch yesterday.
The most contentious issue is the balance between "green" and "gold" open access (box).
Those who view bitcoin as digital gold do not want to see any contentious rule changes made to the network to protect the idea that there is no counterparty risk associated with storing value in the digital bearer asset.
Among other contentious bouts were the Russian heavyweight Tishchenko's heavyweight gold-medal bout victory over Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit and the American Gary Antuanne Russell's loss in his light middleweight quarter-final to Uzbekistan's Fazliddin Gaibnazarov.
Legal footnotes — the subject of particularly contentious debate — are "a mother lode, a vein of purest gold," one judge gushed, while another legal writer called them "lead feet below the line".
