Sentence examples for contentious war from inspiring English sources

Critics say these former officials are cashing in on a costly and contentious war they played a role in.

Two years ago, nationalist protests prompted some theaters to cancel screenings of a documentary by a Chinese filmmaker on the Yasukuni shrine, a contentious war memorial that honors Japan's war dead, including executed war criminals.

There's no doubt we've taken a short-term hit in the face of a very contentious war, but to have the Republicans suffer an average defeat for the midterm says something about the underlying strength of conservative attitudes in the country".

Nearly two weeks after Raymond and Vanessa Jackson were arrested on charges of grotesquely starving four adopted boys, the facts behind the case have become the subject of an increasingly contentious war of words, faxes, Web sites and spin in an attempt to shape public opinion.

She then apologized to Gadelha for the contentious war of words between the two.

On Monday, Murphy dismissed concerns of presenting a divided front in the war effort as a "short-term consequence" of a contentious war authorization debate.

The opposition parties supported the government, with qualifications, during the two most contentious wars of the last 30 years – the Falklands in 1982 and Iraq in 2003.

Defusing potential flare-ups with Asian neighbors, Mr. Noda said he would not visit a contentious Tokyo war shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.

He apologised in April after posting a photograph that showed him standing in front of the contentious Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo.

The N.B.A.'s relocation committee on Monday unanimously recommended that the league's owners reject a request to move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle, a decision that will probably keep the team in California and settle a contentious bidding war.

But in some ways, he kept tensions with China from boiling over, picking Beijing for his first official trip overseas and refraining from visiting a contentious Tokyo war shrine.