Sentence examples for some contentions from inspiring English sources
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).
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'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.
This also became the subject of some contention with the BBC, one senior administrator even suggesting that the corporation should reduce my meagre salary by whatever the Observer paid me.
Whether this apparent "epidemic" of autism reflects a true rise in incidence or is due to changes in diagnostic criteria and ascertainment is a point of some contention, though most experts in the field attribute at least a majority of the apparent increase to ascertainment.
The rule change is being championed by Emily's List and the National Labor Women's Network, but is causing some contention as the ALP attempts to settle differences around a number of related rules, including Kevin Rudd's 2013 change which was designed to protect federal leaders from internal coups.
