Sentence examples for then contentious from inspiring English sources

Its success permitted the then contentious technology of recombinant DNA to emerge and flourish.

If his first swing though Washington hadn't been so brief and so contentious, then Drew Gooden and the Wizards could've viewed the 10-day contract he signed on Wednesday as a reunion.

At one point, things had gotten so contentious internally that then-Director Michael V. Hayden reportedly was conducting an investigation of his own investigator, something that would obviously have undercut Helgerson probes.

Researchers said the analysis vindicated the then-contentious decision to expand no-fishing zones in 2004.

Having had the idea of updating the image, he came back with a page torn from a glossy magazine on which was the then-contentious advert for Opium perfume, in which Sophie Dahl's body lies prone across the page in an echo of the victim's body from the story.

By then, the contentious article had largely gone unnoticed by the public opinion.

Ms. Banfield began developing a national following during the presidential election as she covered the campaign of George W. Bush and then the contentious post-election day vote tallying.

Between his uncompromising stance on cutting pension benefits and collective bargaining rights for public workers and then his contentious fight to hold onto his job, Mr. Walker has catapulted into the national spotlight.

If this were, say, Iceland, then a contentious rivalry between the nation's two leading politicians would probably be seen as just political infighting, or at most perhaps a clashing of political parties or ideologies.

He then included contentious statements from two more of my routines (about hating Pakistanis and supporting the BNP), providing little indication of how or why they might have been said.

The Steelmen had twice led through Stephen McManus and Zaine Francis-Angol, but were pegged back by Adam Rooney then a contentious equaliser from Russell Anderson.