Sentence examples for contentious item from inspiring English sources
In one sense, the ratification of the seven-year-old treaty is the least contentious item on the arms control agenda.
One particularly contentious item will be the call by Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, for a "millionaire's tax" of an extra 1percentt a year for five years.
The most contentious item centred on a plan for the minister to appoint a new official, to be titled the Public Interest Media Advocate, to oversee the Australian Press Council, a self-regulatory body that has existed for 37 years.
The most contentious item on Dan Patrick's list of priorities for the 2017 session was the "bathroom bill," S.B. 6, which would bar transgender people in public schools and government buildings from using rest-room or locker-room facilities that did not correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
"Nicole Montojo discusses Rent Control Report on KTVU" "Proposition 10 a Key Issue in Bay Area Housing Crisis" As Election Day approaches, homelessness is one of the issues on the minds of many California voters, likely making Proposition 10 a contentious item on the ballot.
The most contentious item was a Police Department restructuring estimated to save up to $1.8 million annually.
The right to be forgotten is one of the most contentious items.
HEALTH CARE -- State leaders remain undecided about two contentious items sought by the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno.
A20 Some Movement on Medicare House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative agreement on some of the less contentious items in a bill to provide prescription drug benefits under Medicare.
Among the more contentious items are a proposed 32percentt increase in student tuition by fall 2010, and decisions made by the university president, Mark Yudof, over how to handle mandatory faculty furlough days, which will reduce pay by 4 to 10percentt.
It does not include a Senate-passed prohibition on new administration overtime rules, has a weaker limit on media consolidation and would open the way to a school voucher program in the District of Columbia, among other contentious items.
