Sentence examples for public contention from inspiring English sources

Moyers is also a source of public contention.

Although the battle over embryonic stem cells had receded from public contention, the issue had not gone away.

In the letter, Trillium noted Chevron's public contention that the uncertain legal environment in Ecuador meant the company could not estimate "a reasonably possible loss" in the case.

One of those cousins is Jenny McCarthy, the actor now best known for her long-running and very public contention that vaccinations cause autism.

In addition to tribal-affiliation stickers — I Like This Band; I Root for That Sports Team; I Graduated From the Following Institution of Higher Learning — many bumper stickers attempt the more ambitious business of broadcasting some point of view on a matter of public contention, geopolitical policy or even a philosophical mode of being.

DETROIT — The Treasury Department is directing General Motors to lay the groundwork for a bankruptcy filing by a June 1 deadline, despite G.M.'s public contention that it could still reorganize outside court, people with knowledge of the plans said during the weekend.

Litigation is only the most public form of contention between general and limited partners.

Actually, at Tuesday's public meeting, little contention arose as neighbors absorbed the design possibilities.

Race is rarely a public topic of contention in Mexico, a country that erects monuments to its Indian forebears even as their closest descendants live in crushing poverty and illiteracy.

At that time, Google went public with its contention that the attacks came from China, and linked those attacks to government censorship in explaining why Google was pulling out of China proper.

The tradition of classical rhetoric, with which he was evidently familiar, directly associated public speaking with contention: the proper application of speech in the realms of forensic and deliberative genres of rhetoric is an adversarial setting, with each speaker seeking to convince his audience of the validity of his own position and the unworthiness of his opponents'.