That has been a point of fierce contention.
For a writer who began his career in fierce contention with utopian thought, this is hardly surprising.
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.
For centuries, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, on the site where tradition has it that Jesus was buried, has been the object of fierce contention among the Greek Orthodox, the Roman Catholics and the churches of Armenia, Egypt (Coptic), Syria and Ethiopia.
Now, as he was about to lead forth his levies against Egypt and Athens, a fierce contention for the sovereign power arose among his sons; since the law of the Persians was that a king must not go out with his army, until he has appointed one to succeed him upon the throne.
If you spend time prowling the blogs, you may discover that the problem is not a shortage of criticism but a glut: an endless, sometimes bracing, sometimes vexing barrage of deep polemic, passionate analysis and fierce contention reflecting nearly every possible permutation of taste and sensibility.
Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention.
