Sentence examples for contentious statements from inspiring English sources

Even for a former New York politician, these were contentious statements.

It's this dissonance that allows contentious statements to pass as established fact.

She has an older version of each personage on hand to dispute contentious statements – "I never said that!" – and complicate the general perspective on events.

It was unclear why the Vatican issued the document now, especially since it largely restated earlier, if contentious, statements of church doctrine.

He then included contentious statements from two more of my routines (about hating Pakistanis and supporting the BNP), providing little indication of how or why they might have been said.

She called on Akin to apologise for that and other contentious statements, but rather than join the calls for him to quit she warned the Republican leadership that any attempt to oust him as the candidate would backfire.

That's a very contentious statement.

It makes me ask myself: Was it a deliberately contentious statement??

Unfortunately – and I realise this may be a contentious statement – dark coats are better.

The last part of that highly contentious statement happens to be true.

Given the runaway popularity of these seasonal drinks, you wouldn't think that was a contentious statement.