To some, that's a contentious notion today.
Sharpness, it turns out, is a surprisingly complex and contentious notion.
And it also means the unbridled backing of the contentious notion of giving parents vouchers financed by taxpayers to send their children to private schools.
It's an entirely subjective, disagreeable and contentious notion, but I'd argue that we're in the same sad, lion-shaped boat.
"The Enron Corporation is used as a convenient synecdoche for the whole contentious notion of free markets, although really it was a special case," he avers, with a dose of ten-dollar vocab.
The wide-ranging bill is predicated on the contentious notion that both the profession and the bulk of council children's services are irredeemably broken, and that the best way to fix them is to deregulate and commercialise services, and give ministers unprecedented power to direct professional standards and training.
"Vaccination of wild apes is certainly a new and somehow contentious notion," says Boesch.
The new formulation is less determinate and more contentious, for it relies on "meaning," an ambiguous and theoretically contentious notion.
Its devotees and true believers divided into groups, each of which worked on a proposal to promote, promulgate, or prototype this (currently) weird, new, and contentious notion.
Purdue University officials today announced that they have completed a review on controversy swirling around Purdue nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan, the chief proponent of the contentious notion that sound waves can cause bubbles to collapse in a way that yields energy.
