Sentence examples for contentious wars from inspiring English sources

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.

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

The setback for MCI illustrates the unusually contentious war the company has been waging with the Bell Atlantic Corporation.

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".

But his reluctance to write cheques may be tempered by the suggested size of the arms deal: up to $100bn in new weapons to the Saudi military, much of which will be diverted to the ongoing, contentious, war in Yemen that has pitched Saudi forces against Houthi rebels, which Riyadh claims are directed by Iran.

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.

Despite the efforts of residents who attempted to remain neutral through the contentious war years, the sectional crisis ultimately divided the middle border politically.

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.

Guild members have been locked in an increasingly contentious war with the paper's management since their contract expired over a year ago.