Sentence examples for seem contentious from inspiring English sources

All three theses might seem contentious today.

Our assumption that ECCE is exogenous might seem contentious, assuming that parents do not respond to incentives when investing in their child development.

While on the political front things seem contentious, in the private sector the lights are bright, with U.S.-China trade expanding from $5 billion to $409 billion from 1980 to 2008, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service.

But if any seem contentious, we have no such custom, neither do the churches of God".

The principles presented in this paper may seem contentious; however, they attempt to start to challenge the highly complex, social construction that reflects the way that health services are currently recognised and rewarded.

Inside the museum, these ideas had seemed contentious.

Octavius is a political hero, yet Shakespeare deliberately makes him seem priggish, contentious, manipulative.

Some have suggested that he could do so (assuming Kennedy votes to uphold) to make the ruling seem less contentious or to have more control over the drafting of the opinion.

Photograph: Linda Nylind "Radical" might seem a contentious word to use in the context of female Iranian artists or religious architecture, but Shirazeh Houshiary's soon-to-be unveiled East Window for the revamped St-Martin-in-the-Fields is nothing less.

There is little to disagree with here, although in themselves these scarcely seem like contentious propositions.

Still, the meeting seemed unusually contentious.