Sentence examples for contentious years from inspiring English sources

After nine contentious years, it is here.

Again the 9-11 analogy presents itself — in this country we are already 15 contentious years into war footing.

"O.K., Koito; I give up," Mr. Pickens declared in an editorial two contentious years later, before selling his entire stake.

He was in his late twenties when he first arrived in Salem village, where he spent three contentious years.

It was during the contentious years of the Vietnam War that Matthew Lipman, a philosopher and educator, found that many Americans were having trouble presenting their views about the conflict cogently, and it distressed him.

Like previous biographies, Roper's book dwells on the heady, contentious years between 1517 and 1531, and treats the increasingly bitter conflicts that marked the later part of his life more briefly.

It has also been a contentious year for the Grammy Awards.

For immigrant fathers and their Americanized sons, this has been a contentious year.

Still, as Mr. Kohut put it, "It is a very contentious year".

An assistant director hired by Ms. Jacobs was fired after a contentious year on the job.

Amid a contentious year, Lepage managed to stage a well-received production of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus at the Stratford Festival in Ontario.