Sentence examples for contested questions from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — When the Australian government set out to write a new foreign policy paper, it faced hotly contested questions shaping the country's future: Will China replace the United States as the dominant power in Asia?

A disclosure regime could improve animal welfare without making it necessary to resolve the most deeply contested questions in this domain.

A closely related point is that the prevailing view of conflicts-of-interest is one-sided and naïve and represents a major obstacle to achieving rationality in the public discussion of hotly contested questions like glyphosate.

But such reports had proved too plastic and easily biased by different laboratories' training to settle contested questions, such as whether pleasure and pain are specific sensations, elements of mind of a kind distinct from sensations, or 'hedonic tones' incapable of independent existence but qualifying other introspected elements of mind (Beebe-Center 1932; Alston 1967, pp. 333-34).

Whether signatures can be revoked has been one of the most bitterly contested questions surrounding the state's pioneering parent trigger law, which allows parents at persistently low-performing schools to petition to overhaul staff and curriculum, close the campus or turn management over to a charter operator.

With much help from Adams and Benjamin Franklin, he created a new vision of these principles with many contrived ambiguities, studied evasions and deliberate omissions on contested questions.

Even that is a bitterly contested question.

Just how immutable homosexuality is remains a hotly contested question.

Debate on this hotly contested question has persisted, in one form or another, for about 40 years.

With the exception of the presidential election, the most hotly contested question on the Supreme Court recently has been the constitutional status of the New Deal.

The findings won't say whether cellphones are safe or dangerous, or if they can cause cancer — a hotly contested question that top scientific organizations say is still uncertain.