There are also large numbers of contentious planning battles that eventually go to judicial review.
Moving from union hall to town hall, from brutal salary negotiations to contentious plans to create urban farms out of concrete wasteland, the film listens and moves on.
She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.
TOKYO — Japan will not stop work on several planned reactors, the trade minister was quoted as saying on Saturday, casting further doubt on whether this resource-poor nation will follow through on a contentious plan to phase out nuclear power.
Despite a day of raucous and occasionally violent student protests outside Parliament, the coalition government has won a House of Commons vote on its contentious plan to reform university funding by 323 votes to 302.
At the time, the Common Council of this city was moving through its agenda en route to voting on a contentious plan for its police force to partner with federal officials to enforce immigration laws, an arrangement many in the large immigrant community fear could have a devastating effect.
The paper provides a retrospective on the contentious planning process and offers suggestions as to how the technical and institutional issues could have been resolved faster through early adoption of some of the core principles of sound EDSS design.
However, the white paper still includes contentious plans removing the right of parents to be represented on academy boards of governors and radical proposals allowing head teachers to award staff qualifications.
Celebrities such as Formula One racer Jenson Button have been drafted in, contentious plans to hike parking charges in the city centre are on hold and a raft of events, vouchers and discounts are planned to lure back nervy shoppers.
Mr. Schwartz has worked on New York City projects since 1978, including eight years with the firm of Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown on Westway, the contentious plan to build a 100-acre park on the West Side.
