Sentence examples for contentious groups from inspiring English sources
Diplomacy skills are crucial in connecting two potentially contentious groups: doctors and programmers.
We developed and tested on two contentious groups — fish and oysters — genetic constructs that render the animals functionally sterile outside of hatchery conditions, but allow normal development in captivity following brief provision of a repressor compound at a particular life history stage.
The already contentious groups that made up the government began to splinter in a way that foreshadowed failed statehood.
Finally, other contentious groups need to be tested as potential members of the Astrophoridap: some may have been confused with aster-bearing Hadromerida (e.g. Jaspis vs. Hemiasterella) while others may have lost all their asters and triaenes and are mixed in polyphyletic orders such as the Halichondrida or Haplosclerida.
Encourage and promote a balance of information exchange, connection channels, diversity, power differential, and tension among network members instead of controlling information exchange, forcing agreement, and dealing separately with contentious groups.
They were a contentious group, if you could call them a group at all.
Upholsterers, she noted, were among the most contentious group to deal with.
In April 2008 he was elected president of the ANC Youth League by a narrow majority during a contentious group conference.
Poets are a contentious group, perhaps because of the small stakes, and poetry competitions go back at least to the Greeks, who called them agons.
In buildings where the shareholders are already a contentious group, the likelihood of success is even smaller, which is why so many proprietary leases have remained unchanged for years, despite their obvious deficiencies.
Officials of the association say Mr. Sinkford's initiative has generated more e-mail, letters and telephone calls than any other issue in its history -- a big statement for a contentious group that has had some huge blowups over race, war and gender issues.
