Sentence examples for contentious months from inspiring English sources

After five contentious months, the judge in the Tawana Brawley defamation case tried but failed to open settlement talks today.

After nine contentious months, Ms. Trainer and the founder agreed it would be best for her to resign.

Though he pleaded guilty, Mr. Borker's case went on for more than 18 contentious months, punctuated by a number of hearings.

Not only has this most recent lockout become a nonissue, its results have been seamlessly incorporated into the game's landscape, something that would have been hard to fathom during the contentious months of negotiation.

Following several contentious months involving the Frick, its neighbors and municipal officials, on July 6, 1973, New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission acceded to the museum's request to raze the 1909 Louis XV-style Widener building and create a temporary garden that ultimately would be replaced a decade or two later by an addition.

The long night of strained and often fruitless negotiations capped a contentious six months in which the Legislature passed a budget over the governor's vetoes.

After a contentious few months, league and union officials agreed last week to keep the details of their proposals private, and to refrain from any remarks that might inflame the talks.

The race was close and contentious for months, as two 57-year-old members of Congress sacrificed safe seats to reach for the Senate and stake a claim to the progressive vote in the heavily Democratic state.

Other Kavanaugh critics were busy looking at his past statements and building opposition-research files for possible hearings, which both parties expect to be contentious, just months before this year's midterm elections.

The decision to work with the Turks in northern Syria comes after a contentious two months in Washington's relationship with Ankara — a tension that was sparked in July with an attempted coup in Turkey.

Back in the contentious early months of this year, when the "war on women" rallied many who believed that hard-right Republicans were threatening women's reproductive rights, few predicted that scores of women would sign up to run for the Senate and the House.