Usar "contentious" en una oración

1. He briefly toyed with the idea of convening a council meeting but knew how contentious that could be if aluminum was flashing in the area

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2. ’ I said changing the subject to something less contentious

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3. But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of

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4. inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor

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5. But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other

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6. It was a contentious and largely unsupported scheme, but it caught my interest

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7. In this manner the revolutionists had to contend with contentious factions both foreign and domestic

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8. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground; (9) desperate ground

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9. The harm to workers’ health by repeated and prolonged exposure to the dangerous chemicals became a contentious issue

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10. It had been as contentious as hers had been congenial

11. There are many contentious issues related to religious and ancient cultures, such as female circumcision, which are confined to small communities in the under developed world, many of which are still cut off from the modern world

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12. contentious and an angry woman

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13. the contentious woman are similar; whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment on his right hand, which exposes itself

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14. The people of Europa were certainly a contentious lot

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15. Pro 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman

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16. The Lord dwells in men that love peace because He loved peace; but from the contentious and the utterly wicked He is far distant

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17. 1 You are contentious brethren and are zealous concerning things that pertain not to salvation

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18. “In the evolution of civilization, if it is to survive, all men cannot fail eventually to adopt Gāndhi’s belief that the process of mass application of force to resolve contentious issues is fundamentally not only wrong but contains within itself the germs of self destruction

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19. Intolerance, a contentious spirit, or any other disposition to interfere with the smooth running of the community would bring about the prompt and summary dismissal of the offending teacher

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20. � This raises a contentious point, though

21. This was a contentious, mostly

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22. Were their young lives sacrificed in vain, and did area bombing really shorten the war? Was the bomber offensive a legitimate act of war or was it a crime against humanity? These are some of the issues that continue to be contentious

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23. It is contentious mainly due to the enormous amounts of material and manpower mobilised by Harris

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24. Now, we both know what a contentious issue that has been, especially in light of the scandals over at city hall

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25. This event, possibly one of the most contentious of the twentieth century, occurred after the Japanese military leadership, who, in order to save face, chose to ignore President Truman's Potsdam proclamation calling for unconditional surrender

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26. Of course, the honorary membership’s value is a more contentious issue

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27. “Now, he’s dead after a rather contentious meeting with the other committee members about the convention center project and a stop by the Flamingo Beachwear Store

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28. When Abraham Lincoln won the election for President of the United States in 1860 despite not being on the ballot in nine Southern states, the spark was set to the smoldering, contentious issue of slavery

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29. Twenty-two thousand Koorivars is still a manageable number, but selecting a location for them could be contentious, especially if they intend to reproduce quickly and expand their population

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30. Whatever the name, the peacemaking pipe is almost universal in North America as a symbol of settling grievances and coming to terms—but typically only the most contentious of terms

31. ” Said Major General Schriever, trying to steer away from the last, contentious point

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32. Kulkarni had also played an important role in shaping Advani’s contentious homage to Jinnah

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33. The crowds at Gandhi Maidan and beyond had discovered a Modi trying to unshackle himself from a contentious past and evolve into the hope for the future

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34. The BJP had built its cadres in UP on the back of the contentious Ram Janmabhoomi agitation, attempting to fill the vacuum left behind by the shrinking Congress

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35. Delayed land clearances, contentious tax amendments, FIRs against leading industrialists, high expenditure on social welfare programmes in a period of low growth—bombarded with such negatives, corporate India was desperately looking for their white knight

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36. The TRP system in India is highly skewed and contentious

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37. For years, we tended to treat the Gandhi family with exaggerated deference, almost never seriously questioning their prolonged silence and unwillingness to open up on contentious issues, be it their relations with Bofors-accused Quattrocchi, their sources of wealth or their feudal style of decision-making

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38. On the streets, the BJP’s war cry, ‘Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi’, was proving contentious

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39. He suffered stoically, accepting the pain as a solitary struggle, until a dizzy spell after a contentious filibuster in 2176 forced Henry Marek to haul him into the office of the distinguished neurologist Doctor Phillip deGuire

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40. Of course, by then, Muhammad had successfully arbitrated the contentious issue plaguing Meccans at that time

41. or dare to criticise or simply question many of the contentious issues

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42. Why not the moulanas of the Muslim Personal Law Board of India take the lead in not only reviewing the ‘out of tune’ features of their faith but also in seeking an honorable compromises with the Hindus on all contentious issues as Muhammad had done with the Quraysh

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43. However, his wish to be rid of the vexatious problem was fulfilled, not by divine means but by temporal tools of the kar sevaks who pulled down the contentious structure that 6th December 1992

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44. he could become the most hated, contentious man of our time

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45. It is not surprising why abortion has remained one of the most contentious political issues since the Supreme Court"s Roe v

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46. This is a contentious matter where two principled conservatives might reach a different policy conclusion

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47. That shouldn't be very contentious

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48. Yet the teaching of evolution to schoolchildren is still a contentious

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49. “And the best way to hide a conspiracy is to flood the market with competitively promoted interpretations of the same contentious phenomena – 'Choose coal if you want a future, or oil if you want game over climate change

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50. I had gone through a divorce that was somewhat contentious

51. Since their introduction in 1985 Legislative Council proceedings had become more animated, contentious and at times divisive in character

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52. ” The Commissioner knew only too well that the credence given to some responses over others was an extremely contentious issue

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53. Could things get more contentious?

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54. Contentious as Brandor’s plan was, there were other details about the Tomb that the

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55. "Well!" said Stryver, slapping the desk with his contentious hand, opening his eyes wider, and taking a long breath, "if I understand you, Mr

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56. "Never you trouble your head about this man," retorted the contentious Mr

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57. Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious--would the term be suitable?

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58. However, after the service he got into difficult and contentious

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59. The ranting and whining became contentious at times

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60. The massive voting turnout emerged to finally settle the contentious issue of having to be within the bounds of a certain BMI in order to renew a driver’s license

61. After what the Washington Post called one of the most contentious and public confirmation hearings in American history,1 Thomas was confirmed, but many deep wounds were opened, with implications lasting even until today

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62. There was a formal debate on the always contentious proposition that “the East is a better place to live than the West

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63. But new occasions call for new laws; the side pavement, concentrating the people, required to be kept cleaner, and in better order, than when the whole width of the street was in use; so that the magistrates were constrained to make regulations concerning the same, and to enact fines and penalties against those who neglected to scrape and wash the plainstones forenent their houses, and to denounce, in the strictest terms, the emptying of improper utensils on the same; and this, until the people had grown into the habitude of attending to the rules, gave rise to many pleas, and contentious appeals and bickerings, before the magistrates

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64. Hadn’t I traveled all the way to King’s College after reading of the infamous scuffle between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the book Wittgenstein’s Poker? So enthralled that with a mere slip of paper scribbled with an enigmatic H-3, I successfully routed out the whereabouts of the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club, where the contentious battle between the two great philosophers occurred

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65. Nothing contentious, you understand, but only an indication that there are greater deeps beyond

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66. The pair were speeding away into the distant gray by the time that the contentious revellers became aware of what had happened

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67. Their main criteria are supposed to be derived from the requirement that the accounts represent a true and fair view, but increasingly they prefer the less contentious approach of saying the figures have been compiled in line with the rules

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68. The director may really need the money for the children’s education, to pay death duties, to buy a small chateau in the Dordogne, or to fund a contentious and expensive divorce

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69. Those who bought Century bonds at the bottom and held them through a contentious and protracted legal process enjoyed a return of over 400%

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70. They have had generally bad experiences when they tried to influence managers to change direction, and they are not contentious enough by temperament to enjoy the struggle

71. The House minority leader and Senate president pro tempore had shown up together a minute ago, grabbing a much-needed photo op in the middle of a contentious legislative session

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72. Another ethically contentious facet of Bitcoin is that miners expend enormous amounts of energy when mining for bitcoins

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73. While valuations were high there were both buyers and sellers; market mispricing was more contentious in real time

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74. Time diversification—the idea that stock market investing becomes less risky with a longer horizon—is a contentious issue

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75. That evening, she and Gladys had a contentious exchange about it, ending with Norma Jeane telling her mother to “never interfere with my career again

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76. Because of the ongoing contentious relationship between Bobby Kennedy, who as the attorney general was head of the Justice Department, and J

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77. The dense ignorance, the wide spread immorality, the pride of blood, the antagonism of races, the prevalence of mischievous notions about capital and labor, the indolence and “shiftlessness” of great numbers of the working class, the ambitions that will seize and manipulate these diverse elements with shrewdness and trained skill, still exist all over the great South, and are likely to make it a turbulent caldron of contentious elements for years to come

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