Sentence examples for tendentious issues from inspiring English sources

Neither produced the results Washington had hoped for, though the Camp David talks pushed consideration of the most tendentious issues further along than expected.

Some thought has gone into proposing a territorial settlement that would frame a Palestinian state but which would ignore the particularly tendentious issues, like the fate of Jerusalem and the question of Palestinian refugees.

But a more tendentious issue, the Bush administration's appeal of a ruling that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is unconstitutional, is expected to come before the court soon.

Immigration is a supremely complex and tendentious issue that – as calls for border controls to suggested amnesties for some illegal immigrants demonstrate – means consensus is especially hard to reach.

Mr. Crichton was attacked by environmentalists for presenting a tendentious picture of the issue.

Or is he just being tendentious for rhetorical effect?

She may be apologetic for her tendentiousness, but she is tendentious all the same.

His use of statistics has been challenged many times by those who think his conclusions are tendentious, but the next time he speaks on the issue that obsesses him, he will not be just Sir Andrew Green the ex-diplomat, he will be Lord Green, a life peer.

Despite the generally high caliber of the justices who have served on it, the Court has managed in its long history to issue some spectacularly bad decisions poorly reasoned, historically ill-informed, grossly tendentious, baldly ad hoc, or simply disastrous in their foreseeable political or economic consequences.

The result, published in 1927, was an extremely tendentious, dense, yet important book, titled "The Public and Its Problems".

He makes tendentious tchotchkes.