Sentence examples for contentious past from inspiring English sources
Berlin loves a row, especially one that draws on its eternally contentious past.
The home fans, however, will recall the contentious past when Stimac and Mihajlovic stand a few yards apart.
In all these ways, it remains true to calligraphy's contentious past and argues for a provocative future.
It seemed that in order to give Labour a viable present Blair had disowned both his party's contentious past and its dream of the future.
That building has a contentious past, including several failed development efforts and a three-month occupation by advocates for the homeless.
We live not so much with silence – since the media and publishing industries still have a nose for historical quarrels – but with a reluctance to put the contentious past too overtly on show.
The author argues that there are times when false renditions of historical events may in fact provide opportunities to revisit contentious pasts, and this book suggests that in place of sanitized military histories, we take this opportunity to provide detailed analyses of the "Moro" rebellion.
Moreover, Mr. Reagan and France's President Mitterrand, who've been the most contentious at past meetings, were models of congeniality this time.
The upbeat tone marked a major shift from contentious days past, when Chicago Public Schools officials had deemed talks close to resolution while union officials declared the sides "miles apart".
Yet no official British response to its anniversary is likely to go beyond affirmation of the need for two independent states for the two peoples who now inhabit the Holy Land, however contentious the past.
