Sentence examples for settle contentious from inspiring English sources

The leadership conference will also seek to settle contentious debates over government policy.

The aim of the accords was to reach a final agreement within seven years that would settle contentious issues like Jerusalem, and seal Israeli and Palestinian recognition of each other's sovereignty and borders.

The I.R.S. said that it would centralize operations at the core unit, which will now be known as the large business and international division, to give international examiners the authority to decide whether to pursue or settle contentious tax cases involving multinational corporations.

Thus, there have developed special arrangements for reviewing conditions of service periodically and for settling contentious issues.

The N.B.A.'s relocation committee on Monday unanimously recommended that the league's owners reject a request to move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle, a decision that will probably keep the team in California and settle a contentious bidding war.

Qualcomm has agreed to pay $891 million over four years to Broadcom, a chief rival, to settle a contentious patent dispute over technology used in the microprocessors that power mobile phones.

I have already committed my vote and efforts for next years' Pa Senate race to Joe Sestak because he helped settle a contentious issue in my town where a museum, hotel and conference center was going to be placed inside Valley Forge National Park (the park sits in a number of small towns).

She and Depp settled their contentious divorce on Tuesday, one day before the actors were scheduled to begin a restraining order hearing that would center on Heard's allegations Depp repeatedly abused her during their marriage.

As head of the National War Labor Board, he oversaw more than 100 disputes a week; as a mediator for New York City's Labor Relations Division, he settled a contentious newspaper strike and several transit strikes.

The administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo agreed on Tuesday to give 4,000 mentally ill people who have been kept in institutional homes in New York City the opportunity to move into their own subsidized apartments, settling a contentious legal battle over the care for such patients that dragged on for a decade.

Fresh on the heels of settling a contentious and expensive lawsuit with Uber, Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo is looking to get out there and educate the public on how its autonomous vehicles work.