Sentence examples for contentious having from inspiring English sources

I didn't think it would be contentious having a mixed-race lead, because that is America.

I didn't think it was in any way contentious having characters from all different beliefs and cultures and skin tones, because that makes America.

While these are among the best preserved polychaete fossils, their relationship to living taxa is contentious, having been interpreted either as members of extant clades or as a grade outside the crown group.

Perhaps most contentious has been Mr. Obama's overseas use of drones.

Perhaps even more significant, some park foes in Greenwich Village, generally the most contentious, have become friendlier.

Yet research viewed as contentious has caused researchers to be targeted in the past.

The politics at residential buildings, which are notoriously contentious, have become even more so as environmental issues have entered the fray.

Of the State Senate races this year, one of the most contentious has been in the South Bronx, where the incumbent, Pedro Espada Jr., fought, unsuccessfully, for his political life.