Sentence examples for contentious practice from inspiring English sources

Japan is set to defy international opinion on another contentious practice: the slaughter of whales in the Antarctic.

— On a crisp, cloudless morning, midway through the Jets' second straight contentious practice, Rex Ryan finally showed Tuesday that he actually has a boiling point, abruptly stopping a drill and angrily ordering the Jets to line up.

But some of the most interesting work reported to the meeting concerned not drugs, but tests that screen for the disease a contentious practice, given that no treatment yet exists.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, seeks to overturn the ban on the contentious practice that passed by a wide margin last month in the northern Colorado city of Longmont.

THE UNBLINKING EYE If the PGA Tour policy board solicits input from players on the contentious practice of levying stroke penalties after a round is completed when television viewers alert rules officials to legitimate infractions that went unnoticed, Tiger Woods would be willing to offer a proposal.

In this environment, the reprogramming studies, preliminary as they are, are likely to be seized on by critics of ES cell research as further evidence that there is no need for the contentious practice of destroying early embryos to obtain stem cells.

They can also use the system to challenge an array of less contentious practices, like expropriation of property and breach of contract.

And I wonder to what extent some colleges, as they turn towards more securitized models of "success" and away from riskier, more potentially contentious practices of learning, might be participating in an idea of education that encourages moving through the world with blinders on rather than taking four years of one's life to consider things beyond the normative track or path to success.

The company also reaps benefits from the ascendancy of natural gas, particularly in the widespread — and environmentally contentious — mining practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Among the many things that divide the dual fraternities of pitchers and hitters, there are few sources of friction more contentious than batting practice, because of the shagging.

Controversy has stalked the commission this year, and the vote's outcome likely hinged in part on one of the most contentious issues — the practice of holding private meetings, also known as ex parte communications, with parties who have an interest in a project. .