Sentence examples for contentious path from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hickenlooper said Mr. Clements had been supportive of the gun measures but was not "particularly active" during their emotional and contentious path toward passage.

But with several groups now navigating a complex and contentious path to return bison to these plains, agribusiness is fighting back.

John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (known as Fanny Hill; 1748 49) chose a more contentious path; in his charting of a young girl's sexual initiation, he experiments with minutely detailed ways of describing the physiology of intercourse.

The workplace regulations covering what is called ergonomics have taken a tortuous and contentious path, beginning a decade ago when then-Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole started the rule-making process.

By contrast, May, after her one great commercial success, with "The Heartbreak Kid," made "Mikey and Nicky," a film with a famously rocky and contentious path to completion, and one that's as great an artistic achievement as it was a commercial flop.

But they do show the contentious path to the screen -- and to Oscar prominence -- that "Crash" has taken.

In 2009, he resigned from the board of the Center for Inquiry, in part because he felt it was on too contentious a path.

Federal Aviation Administration officials told a group of Newport Beach city leaders and residents Wednesday that the FAA would not make any additional adjustments to a contentious John Wayne Airport departure path.

The legal path is contentious and time-consuming; the court system can be slow, the point of origin of the attack may never be found, and energy is wasted as criminals live to fight another day.

This could make it less contentious to ease the path to legalization for the 12 million undocumented workers and their families in the U.S. It's also a good time to ask why we turn away skilled workers, including the ones earning 60% of the advanced degrees in engineering at U.S. universities.

"The chancellor's path is extremely contentious, with the public plainly opposed because it is unclear what limit there is to how far Germany has to jump in to cover Greece's debt," said Werner J. Patzelt, a political scientist at Technical University in Dresden.