And, in the Internet age with continuous news cycles, every issue seems to be excessively contentious.
There always seems to be at least one contentious incident at every Olympics and, sure enough, another ugly episode duly unfolded in the final stretch of the 10km slog around the world's most scenic course.
Yet that is exactly what the Republican party seems to be doing on the contentious issue of the federal debt ceiling.
Which seems to be Britain trying to separate-out a non-contentious issue in order to at least tick one thing off of their Herculean "to do" list.
The logic for some, especially here in a contentious swing state like Florida, seems to be simple: Stand up and stay separated.
How best to reconstruct the rationale for this premise is highly contentious.[10] The intuitive picture seems to be this.
It is a contentious theory, Mr. Temkin said, "but it seems to be most consistent with the results of phylogenetic analysis".
"The Democratic mayoral primary was not remotely as contentious in April of '01 as the gubernatorial campaign seems to be now," added Mr. Green, who would know.
Although foreign aid is a contentious issue, researchers at the London School of Economics say the public seems to be happy with the UK's spending on foreign aid.
When the delegation of American cardinals traveled to Rome in April to meet with Vatican officials, the issue of past cases seemed to be a contentious one.
