Sentence examples for deep contention from inspiring English sources

China's church ordained another bishop in November, a point of deep contention between Rome and Beijing.

Despite the disparity in their records, both teams are elbow-deep in contention for their division championships.

Coach Larry Brown had the Bobcats in playoff contention deep into the season.

Not that there's anything wrong with a second-place team emerging on top, especially when that team may have a better record than some other division champion, and not that there's anything wrong with keeping teams in contention deeper into the season than they would otherwise be.

Acerbic jurist Judith Sheindlin deep-sixed his contention that the $5,000 was really part of his inheritance: "Anybody who goes to Europe to sink a $1.5 million boat in order to collect insurance proceeds is somebody that maybe a mother wouldn't be proud of".

With the PBSA boom, a danger is that the eternal divide between "town and gown" – a bone of contention with deep medieval roots – may just gain a new, global dimension.

By November, SME and the Lightning had settled on blue and white, with two blues in contention: the deep blue used by the Maple Leafs and the navy used by the Yankees.

Internalism is a deep methodological point of contention that separates proponents of generalized 2D semantics from many of their critics (e.g., Soames 2005; Stalnaker 2004).

However, there still exists the contention between deep or shallow divergence of bilaterian clades, which remains to be solved in the future.

This supports the contention that deep brain stimulation can induce some long-term neuroplastic changes in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Western officials expressed deep skepticism toward Tehran's contention that a deal was close for having uranium enriched abroad for Iran's controversial nuclear program.