Sentence examples for contentious speech from inspiring English sources

There is nothing wrong with an arbitration service to settle disputes about contentious speech.

Paul Ryan, Romney's Catholic vice-presidential running-mate, touched on the issue in his contentious speech on Wednesday night, saying the two "shared the same moral creed".

The prime minister's focus on the threat of Iran's nuclear programme, and his contentious speech to the American Congress denouncing President Barack Obama's nuclear negotiations with Iran as a bad deal, had not done him much good.

The Queensland chief justice, Tim Carmody, has cancelled his appearance at a legal conference where he was to deliver a contentious speech to a closed audience including a judge he purportedly referred to as a "fat fuck" and another who recorded the remark.

These concerns have been echoed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, against the wishes of the White House, delivered a contentious speech on the House floor, warning that the current deal will "all but guarantee" Iran nuclear weapons.

Having won, he made a contentious maiden speech in which he claimed that the UUP were the "British national party in Ulster", formed "to combat Irish nationalism".

In another imitation of college life, the Facebook campus is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes.

Despite the upbeat nature of the ambassador's speech, several contentious issues may elude the search for common ground between the United States and India.

Perhaps the most contentious passage of his speech touched on the matter of what MPs should and should not say in the Commons, and whether it should be reported.

The ruling is the most recent in a series on the contentious issue of commercial speech, which has met with a decidedly mixed reception from the Supreme Court down through the decades.

This is the most contentious moment in the speech: "Mr. Emir, we will not permit you to turn Kuwait into an autocracy".