Sentence examples for some contention from inspiring English sources

It's clearly an area of some contention," Turnbull said.

Most everyone may be pleased now, but before the center opened it was a source of some contention.

"That's a point of some contention," he said, when asked whether the CIA had lied to the White House.

Lately he has stirred up some contention by trying to imagine the state of mind of the captured American Taliban in "John Walker's Blues".

With the Court seemingly on the verge of an historic precedent, the selection of the lawyers for oral argument became a point of some contention among the many attorneys involved in the various cases.

They do not want to be removed from the list of "poverty-stricken counties" because of the aid and other benefits they would forfeit.China's poverty is, therefore, a matter of some contention and confusion.

The balance between looking after one's health and keeping one's career on track may be very difficult to strike with a chronic illness, and some contentions may arise at work.

It is therefore useful, at this point of the discussion, to consider some contentions brought forward by the mathematician W. K. Clifford in his well known paper 'The Ethics of Belief' first published in 1877 (Clifford 1999).

Mr Popham says he is frustrated by some Indians' contention that firms like his own will inevitably take away local jobs.

There should be some good contention in all of the categories, but there is always one nominee who has as much chance of winning as Kanye West at a humility contest.

The finding supports some astronomers' contention that Pluto shouldn't be considered a planet.