Sentence examples for rather than contentious from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, states the obvious rather than the contentious.

He writes that, despite her "affinity for" W., Condi was a bad N.S.C. chief, forcing consensus rather than letting contentious issues get to the president.

Repeat the phrase "chain through the metadata" enough times and it sounds like a law of nature rather than a contentious policy.

The struggle within the administration, in skirmishes between Cabinet officers and vollies of memorandums, showed how the White House has transformed domestic policy through regulatory revision, rather than more contentious congressional debate.

Nevertheless, Elizabeth was forced to accept the title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England rather than the more contentious title of Supreme Head, which many thought unacceptable for a woman to bear.

President Clinton let such trade authority expire in 1994, rather than take on a contentious issue that divided the Democratic party.

For the United Steelworkers and for much of organized labor, the No. 1 legislative goal is the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize – by giving employees at a worksite the right to unionize through majority sign-up rather than through an often contentious and protracted unionization election.

But Cole also has earned the reputation as a pragmatic legislator, someone who seeks common ground rather than ideological purity on contentious issues.

Thirteen of its 15 judges would have to be present for contentious cases, rather than nine as at present.