Sentence examples for contentious time from inspiring English sources

But residues of that contentious time linger.

Secretariat was a tonic for a contentious time.

"It was a highly contentious time," the official said.

This is a deeply contentious time of year.

The Vietnam War made the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies a bitter and contentious time.

Mr. Méndez-Santiago's resignation comes at a contentious time for issues affecting the city's older citizens.

She maintains her face of impartiality with the public, even (or especially) in contentious times.

The task would be gargantuan, and much of Washington has called it impossible in these contentious times.

But not everyone grants Columbia the purest of motives in today's more prosperous, less contentious times.

Representative Slaughter and Senators Blumenthal and Murphy make a good point: Particularly in these contentious times, our courts should be beyond ethical reproach.

In less contentious times he held breakfasts before the parade, but in 1992 he had a cold and did not participate.