Sentence examples for if contentious from inspiring English sources
There are reasonable (if contentious) public safety arguments against prostitution and thorny consent issues surrounding bestiality, bigamy and incest.
(He could not, for example, muster enough friends to stave off the internationally sanctioned, if contentious, NATO bombing campaign).
Rubber boots or gloves are great, if contentious among purists; it does feel a bit like swimming in cornflakes boxes.
And the demographic shift is raising an obvious, if contentious, question: Will Texas become more like California politically, too?
These are reasoned opinions, if contentious ones.With the gangstersDuring the second world war, when Kinji Fukasaku was in his early teens, he worked in a munitions factory that was bombed day after day.
The idea of a special tax on sports stars' incomes to discourage youngsters from unrealistic aspirations is intriguing, if contentious; suggesting that the two groups might bargain away such effects is absurd.There are some puzzling omissions.
This created an ambivalent, if not contentious, relationship with women of other classes and races.
The history of concert hall acoustics is nothing if not contentious.
Mr. Weidmann invoked the durable, if sometimes contentious, relationship between France and Germany, which has always been crucial to the functioning of the European Union.
Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters.
Colleagues for decades, late-life romantic partners, the pair has occasionally, wistfully, been called American medicine's royal couple — as if that contentious Tower of Babel could ever support such a topper.
