Public-sector pensions are a point of major contention.
Whether this means farmers can look forward to better prices for the liquid milk they supply to make cheese - a bone of major contention - remains unclear.
Thoren's major contention is that most women could benefit from moving their bindings forward two centimeters, which would better enable them to balance and pressure the ski tip -- basic tenets of agile skiing.
(Some intelligent design advocates fit here. (Dembski, 2002, Meyer, 1998) However, the major contention of present interest involves (e).
A major contention that motivates this thesis is that irreversible cessation of brain function will quickly lead to irreversible loss of cardiopulmonary function (and vice versa).
The first of these theses was a point of major contention in 17th-century natural philosophy and one assailed by Newton's critics such as Leibniz, Huygens, and Berkeley.
A major contention is that making pay public will lead to high levels of dissatisfaction and non-stop debates about what individuals should be paid.
Now, as the United States fights for its economic life, the Iran question and its alleged nuclear weapons program have again become an issue of major contention.
About the best thing you can say for Cruz is that he hasn't shared the fate of others at his level who have now dropped out of major contention (such as Christie or Paul, for instance).
A major contention concerned the poll tax provisions; the Senate version included a provision that allowed the Attorney General to sue states that used poll taxes to discriminate, while the House version outright banned poll taxes.
