Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, has drawn much flack for his highly contentious proposed reforms of the NHS.
One of the most contentious proposed knighthoods is for Ian Taylor, an oil executive who gave almost £1m to the Conservatives in the past 18 months and helped fund the campaigns against Scottish independence and in favour of the EU.
Although a number of theories have been proposed, one particularly contentious model suggests that human language evolved from a manual gestural communication system in a common ape-human ancestor.
The contentious bill, proposed by the Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, and currently under debate by the country's interim legislature, would allow the state to control NGOs' activities as well as their domestic and international funding, HRW said.
The spirit of bipartisan consensus that both parties claimed to favour after November's midterm elections had all but evaporated in recent days as the White House issued a string of veto threats over proposed legislation covering more contentious issues such as the environment and immigration.
Those costs are certain to be large; that is why the proposed rule is so contentious.
Despite the widespread interest in Ryff's theoretical framework, and application of the Ryff PWB items, the psychometric properties of the proposed sub-scales remain contentious.
The Medicaid expansion is, by all accounts, the most contentious element of Ms. Brewer's proposed budget, and the proposed hospital fee its sharpest thorn.
Senate Republicans had not decided on Wednesday night whether to allow a vote on the most contentious issue, the proposed legalization of same-sex marriage.
The issue was contentious and the proposed change to competitive bidding required consensus building among various stakeholders with divergent views, which is inherent in the legislative process.
