Sentence examples for it was contentious from the from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, it was contentious from the start -- a shotgun marriage that made the trust the dominant shareholder in the company.

The place of the new amid the old was contentious from the institution's start, as it has been for every encyclopedic museum that collects art from nearly every global civilization in recorded human history.

His relationship with Wilkie was contentious from the start.

Barclays sponsorship was contentious from the start because there no formal tendering process.

The effort was contentious from the start, sparking protests from advocates of affordable housing long before demolition began.

Jackson's nomination to lead the federal government's second-largest agency was contentious from the start.

Since Nobel had an explicit idea of the kind of writing he wished to promote (morally uplifting and idealistic), the very notion of a financial award was contentious from the outset.

But the plan was contentious from the start, after several contestants threatened to withdraw to protest a Nigerian Shariah court's sentence to death by stoning for Amina Lawal, who was found guilty of bearing a child out of wedlock.

The panel's work was contentious from the beginning, with Senator Murray's request that the negotiations should not be leaked to the press largely ignored.

Zamboni's theory was contentious from the beginning, in part because the initial study that received so much attention was a non-randomized, non-blinded study of 65 patients.

The constitutionality of the government's citizenship revocation plan has been contentious from the time it was announced in February 2015.