In July last year, just after his diagnosis, he took part in a late-night Senate session and gave the deciding vote - with a thumbs-down gesture - against partially repealing the contentious Obamacare healthcare law.
Several large, integrated forest management experiments have been initiated in the Pacific Northwest this past decade, partially in response to contentious resource management debates.
Partially due to such contentious policies, but also because of Haddad's failure to effectively connect with low-income areas and his association with the scandal-ridden Workers Partyy, he was deeply unpopular by election time.
As for the contentious part?
It has only been a month since Japan declared that it would close down its nuclear industry by the end of the 2030s, but already a contentious plan to complete several partially built reactors is sowing doubts about the government's commitment to the radical policy shift.
The court, with two of the nine justices dissenting, granted his administration's request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban, which is the third version of a contentious policy that Trump first sought to implement a week after taking office in January.
WASHINGTON — Partially lifting the secrecy that has cloaked one of the United States' most contentious tactics for fighting terrorists, the Obama administration on Friday said that it believed that airstrikes it has conducted outside conventional war zones like Afghanistan have killed 64 to 116 civilian bystanders and about 2,500 members of terrorist groups.
Dependency on drug company funding was also identified as a contentious area with the main consumer resources in 2 states partially or totally funded by drug companies, as well as the 3 videotapes identified.
Israel raised particular alarms with its decision to continue planning and zoning work for the development of a contentious area known as E1, a project vehemently opposed internationally because it would partially separate the northern and southern West Bank, harming the prospects of a contiguous Palestinian state in that territory.
If priors chosen at least partially on the basis of that environment can underpin further judgments regarding a subject's rationality which is obviously contentious but will be touched on in the next section then there will be an important sense in which what is rational for that subject will depend constitutively on a historically sensitive parameter.
