Sentence examples for contentious said from inspiring English sources

"We rarely have something this contentious," said Councilman Brad Lander of Brooklyn, who heads the subcommittee.

Many House Republicans, leaving a closed-door party caucus earlier Thursday that at times grew contentious, said they would support their leadership's short-term debt limit proposal.

"Sometimes they're problem solvers, sometimes they're mediators, and sometimes they're more contentious," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.

"The debate over the Iraq war was bitterly contentious," said Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska and, like Mr. Hagel, a Vietnam veteran.

"Everything Israel does now will be highly contentious," said Robert H. Serry, the United Nations special Middle East coordinator, on a recent tour of East Jerusalem.

Ira Acree, who described the meeting with Emanuel as "very tense, very contentious", said the mayor expressed concerns about the prospect of any demonstrations getting out of control.

On Friday, General Farooq dismissed the notion that the release of the detainees was contentious, saying it was part of the plan all along.

"The subject has become very contentious," says Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who studies airbursts and isn't convinced by the evidence gathered so far.

Even asking people how long they had been married was a bit contentious," says Debra Chatfield, of findmypast.co.uk, which has the 1911 census online.

"It's very competitive and contentious," says Jean-Denis Vigne, a zooarchaeologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, who notes that dogs could shed light on human prehistory and the very nature of domestication.

"It's both absolutely necessary and extremely contentious, " he said.