Sentence examples for fierce contention from inspiring English sources

That has been a point of fierce contention.

But the Poetry Society, as the institutional heart of British verse, has always been a site of fierce contention.

There are white hats and black hats, high-minded cultural ideals pitted against putative populist evil, pop and ivory-tower cultures caught in fierce contention.

(That makes trips like these a point of fierce contention for those in the United States who oppose greater contact between the two countries).

But the fate of a Senate provision that could require banks to spin off their lucrative derivatives trading desks is in fierce contention.

The appointment appeared to be the subject of fierce contention between supporters of both women, amounting in a sense to a referendum on Mr. Villella, 75, who has lobbied for Ms. Kronenberg.

Since then, the level of termite-produced methane (and its possible contribution to global warming) has been a matter of fierce scientific contention.

Fierce competition.

Not a fierce competition.

As Mr. Jenkins wrote in The Guardian, "two great forces are now in fierce but unresolved contention".

The very definition soon became a fierce point of contention since each side knew the import of the symbolism.