Sentence examples for overly contentious from inspiring English sources
Other couples in these stories have more overly contentious relationships, their disputes heightened by class snobberies and clashing attitudes toward assimilation.
Rice withdrew her candidacy for the post of secretary of state last week, saying the Senate confirmation hearings would have been overly contentious.
But he said the rulemaking process was overly contentious and polarized, and he said some rules don't apply to all areas of the state, but those could changed on a case-by-case basis by the OGCC.
Though the forum was contentious and often overly theatrical, Carney said he did not want to do away with the daily briefing, just add some reforms to its format.
Authorship too can be contentious.
In our opinion, reforming the entire fiscal policy process is too abstract and overly ambitious -- especially in these contentious times.
Although the polls are in his favor and give high ratings to his cabinet, his domestic agenda is already proving contentious as he made overly ambitious promises to increase public expenditures, raise the minimum wage, reverse Sarkozy's reforms on retirement age and pension policy, while imposing sharp increases in tax rates on the highest earners.
