Once, while lurking at the edge of one of my parents' parties, I looked across our smoke-filled living room and saw my father attempting to prove an old contention of his, that his navel was off-center.
Both presidents said that, although talks had only just begun about how to spend the putative $15 billion Mr Bush recently promised to fight the disease, it would be necessary to make treatment (that is, drugs) available to more people.That might prove a bone of contention between the two countries later this year, at the world trade talks in Doha.
It also helps understand the definitions of Palestinian and "Israeli-Arabs" which could forever prove a point of contention and incomprehension.
It seems that CNS was willing to sit on the truth of ABC's response -- which proved a key contention by Bozell wrong -- until ABC called them out on it.
The current public discussion of race and the Academy Awards is a time of contention which may prove a time of clarification and of constructive new policies.
Doyle's high spirits have over the years proved a bone of contention with critics who prefer their literature a little more blanched of cheer.
But a 61-acre patch, where one old, unplugged well and some abandoned cement and other equipment lie, has proved a subject of contention.
Even the film's running time, just under three hours, has proved a point of contention for some viewers.
The marriage proved difficult, as the couple did not particularly like each other and the disputed castles proved a point of contention, resulting in Matilda returning to Normandy later that year.
At Saint-Mandé, Marguerite Louise underwent a transformation: she no longer cared for "excesses", and busied herself with reforming the convent, which she called a "spiritual brothel"; the absentee mother superior, who wore men's clothing, was sent away, non-conformist nuns were removed and it is because of these deeds her behaviour no longer proved a bone of contention with Florence.
Her absence and the Doctor's pained estrangement from her proves a point of contention for the Doctor's series 3 companion Martha (Freema Agyeman); when Martha protects the Doctor, living as a human without his memories, it is still Rose that he dreams of.
