Sentence examples for rather contentious from inspiring English sources

It's a rather contentious point.

It's always rather contentious during tough times".

For one thing, my mother had left him and initiated a rather contentious divorce.

The rather contentious Copenhagen conference (attended by representatives from 193 countries) elicited a very weak nonbinding global agreement.

What she is focusing on, thanks in part to the platform provided by her acting success, is activism and human-rights advocacy.The Mumbai-born Ms Das made her first, rather contentious, film appearance in 1996.

When Mr. Sharpton finished a rather contentious interview on "Meet the Press," his host, Tim Russert, bid him farewell by declaring: "To be continued: We look forward to covering you on the campaign trail".

Colbert's best moments in the past year have been political, but earnest and serious rather than contentious and funny: Joe Biden's discussion of faith in the context of the death of his son, and the back-and-forth Colbert had with Bill O'Reilly following the night-club shooting in Orlando.

Once the Tom Robinson Band broke the charts with 1978's rather less contentious 2-4-6-8 2-4-6-8 2-4-6-8 2-4-6-8o bring the song to a wider audience, along with other angry, acerbic tracks such as The Winter of '79, which iMotorwaya dystopian police state, and the anthemic was cry, Better Decide Which Side You're On.

We have already implicitly encountered in passing two of Aristotle's appeals to category theory: (i) in his approach to time, which he comes to treat as a non-substantial being; and (ii) in his commitment to the core-dependent homonymy of being, which introduces some rather more contentious considerations.

But that was humorous rather than contentious, and we amused more than a few taxi drivers, artists, and people in the street with our quasi-fluent Spanish.

House GOP leaders, stymied by a Democratic Senate and a Democrat in the White House, have chosen to focus on economic issues rather than contentious social topics such as abortion.