Sentence examples for contentious ground from inspiring English sources
But history on this contentious ground is prone to shifting perspectives.
He is on less contentious ground with Bobby Kennedy as a hero (another younger brother).
This is contentious ground, if only because the qualifier "Islamic," when applied to many broad concepts — democracy, for example — often elicits the charge, "cultural relativist".
To tamper with rights that have been part of the American social contract since at least the New Deal is to tread on contentious ground.
Nor is he enamored of the grandiose constitutional charters and bills of rights which serve as the most contentious ground in terms of which that power is often exercised by courts.
So Perkinson decided to focus his analysis on Texas not only because its prison system is the largest in the country, but also because "from its inception, the state has served as a contentious testing ground for rival styles of penal discipline: retribution versus rehabilitation".
Storing water underground averts the need to flood land above-ground, a contentious and potentially litigious process.
Ginsburg's comments came a day after Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking at a similar conference in West Virginia, said he's doing his best to try to get his colleagues to find common ground on contentious issues.
Aside from the usual agreements on salaries and benefits, the two sides also reached common ground on the contentious issue of the use of organized labor in new-media initiatives.
When we entered into sensitive areas I found it possible to raise potentially contentious issues, find some common ground, get to the heart of the matter and push some hard topics around until we both felt we'd reached a good place.
Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines--but only those lines that have already been derived.
