Sentence examples for contentious phase from inspiring English sources

With the Grassley-Baucus compromise, the tax-cut battle enters a new and contentious phase.

On each side, there was a clear recognition that this was the beginning of a broader struggle, that the long-simmering abortion war was entering a new, more contentious phase.

Once New Orleans is more or less dry, more or less clean, and more or less with functioning services, it will be ready for the next, even more contentious phase of rebuilding.

The verdicts set the stage for a second, more contentious phase of the trial, in which the same jury will decide whether to sentence Mr. Tsarnaev, 21, to life in prison or death.

But people familiar with the probe say that such assurances are unlikely and that the meeting could trigger a new, more contentious phase between the special counsel and a frustrated president, according to administration officials and advisers close to Trump.

In this the more politically contentious phase of the plan, it is widely believed the EPA will depart from the "inside the fence-line" convention of earlier environmental regulations for mercury and other pollutants, which focused on emissions-scrubbing on specific power plants.

Chevron has much larger operations elsewhere in Latin America, and the plaintiffs' strategy of pursuing the company across the region could open a contentious new phase in the case — one that would test Ecuador's political ties with its neighbors and involve some of Washington's most prominent lobbyists and lawyers.

Trump and the press have raced right past whatever honeymoon normally exists and have stage-dived into the contentious, punitive phase of this dysfunctional relationship.

TOKYO — Japan will not stop work on several planned reactors, the trade minister was quoted as saying on Saturday, casting further doubt on whether this resource-poor nation will follow through on a contentious plan to phase out nuclear power.

Yet it is in precisely these areas that Mr Blair is attempting to drive through a new phase of contentious reform.

This bar on future ECJ involvement has already become contentious in the first phase of the negotiations, with the EU insisting that the rights of EU citizens already living in the UK must be underpinned in perpetuity by the ECJ.