Sentence examples for contentious wrangling from inspiring English sources

The signing followed months of contentious wrangling and false starts, including a failed attempt on Wednesday that fell apart when it was discovered that the paperwork accidentally contained the wrong amount of money.

But there are few ready answers for how to turn around recessionary economies during a major sovereign debt crisis, and it will take weeks of contentious wrangling to determine whether the Germans can be pressed to make more than cosmetic changes to their focus on fiscal discipline for all.

For car buyers, the threat of being ripped off or having to engage in contentious wrangling is a big source of angst.

But in a body where 60 votes are required to cut off debate, the Republicans' narrow new working majority also fell far short of the margin needed to avoid Democratic filibusters on a range of contentious major issues from Social Security to health care, all but guaranteeing another two years of contentious partisan wrangling.

The answers to those questions are mired in some of the most contentious legal wrangling ever and is the basis of an entire industry, one dedicated to producing Internet-based "bait cars" that allow copyright holders to see a trickle of money for even the arguably worst content imaginable.

The agreement ended months of wrangling and contentious meetings over the "fair fares" program that Mr. Johnson had championed.

The Talmud itself is a rarefied repository of contentious debate and theoretical wrangling between Israel's great sages.

Strategists proposed tying disaster relief to a "clean" debt ceiling vote, stripped of all the contentious conservative demands for spending cuts, to skip the usual wrangling.

The wrangling over the building is part of an often contentious history between the university and the surrounding community.

Thankfully, this means the process of wrangling payments is much neater (not to mention less contentious) here than it is in meatspace.

Development of the mall has been highly contentious locally, and the recent opening came after well over a decade of wrangling.