Sentence examples for issue in contention from inspiring English sources

The real issue in contention, however, was which Israeli settlements would be permitted to stay, and which would have to be removed.

So the real issue in contention is that there is no track record of credibility from this or the previous administration".

And if at times the byplay seemed to take on the zaniness of "Spinal Tap" — one questioner misheard Mr. Kaye's reference to "the germination of punk" as "the German nation of punk" — there was also a serious issue in contention: how did Jewish punk rockers defend their use of Nazi symbols and other shock imagery?

They called for the issues in contention to be put to a full Senate vote.

The issues in contention involved Young & Rubicam's ability to work autonomously within WPP.

The broader issues in contention would be deferred until Congress takes up the next farm bill, most likely in 2012.

They called for the issues in contention to be brought to the full Senate floor for a vote.

Results at this particular conference are unpredictable because of the very tight factional balance and the particular bunch of issues in contention – and because Shorten genuinely wants to try and lead by consensus.

The overt issues in contention between Shas and Mr. Barak concerned the finances and oversight of the religious party's indebted school system and the legalization of its pirate radio stations, which have been nicknamed "the holy channels".

Since the earliest days of unions, teachers have been fighting over some of the same issues in contention in Chicago: salaries, conditions at schools and tenure.

Bauer had earlier criticized this configuration as an outmoded form of state, to be supplanted by the republic; he now described it as the result of an incomplete political development, which would issue in a contention for world domination.