Sentence examples for contentious vote from inspiring English sources

Qatar also won a contentious vote to host the 2022 World Cup.

Kenya has a history of opportunistic ethnic rabble-rousing, most notoriously after the contentious vote in 2007.

In the two years since that contentious vote in City Hall, Greater Harlem Housing has continued to founder.

It comes as investment banks prepare for market volatility surrounding the contentious vote over May's Brexit withdrawal deal next week.

The UN security council has postponed a contentious vote on a resolution that would have demanded Israel halt all settlement activities as a "flagrant violation" of international law.

Her contentious vote in 2002 in support of President George Bush's war resolution on Iraq played heavily against her in 2008, and remains an open wound.

There were two contentious votes.

Senators will be forced to cast a number of contentious votes that could haunt those facing tough re-election battles.

Sinn Fein, the SDLP and the Assembly's sole Green Party representative used a contentious voting mechanism to effectively veto the Bill today.

Fresh evidence has emerged in Florida that Al Gore might have won last year's presidential election under a less contentious voting system, and if the US supreme court had not stepped in to stop the recount.

May has delayed a series of contentious votes, including on the customs and trade bills, to which backbenchers have laid a series of amendments aimed at keeping the option of a full customs union with the EU on the table.