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The issue turned out to be very contentious.
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And finally, Prince of the fallen Cherubim, who tempts men to be quarrelsome and contentious and to commit murder.
You have a contentious temperament!
I am preparing to leave by shuttlecraft for Pentarus V where I've been asked to mediate a dispute among the salenite miners, a contentious group unfortunately, prone to violence.
Oh, well, now, aren't you contentious for a minor bipedal species.
Not usually so contentious, is she?
Compared with the Borg, this crew is inefficient and contentious.
Contentious little rube, isn't he?
Those are some contentious items you might not want to put on the block.
I am not purposely contentious.
He's a contentious fella.
Now this has become a contentious issue.
You scots sure are a contentious people.
And Henry, property development can get very contentious.
Are you always this contentious, or is this the result of the head trauma?
She is a research import brought at great expense from a great distance across several most contentious borders.
Well, now, aren't you contentious for a minor bipedal species.
I'm outside the LA Federal Court, where lawyers for the prosecution and defence are locked in contentious legal debate over the origins, motives and parties responsible in the so-called Postal Miracle trial.
Compared with the Borg, this crew is inefficient and contentious. But it is capable of. surprising acts of compassion.
Because I think a relationship should be a little contentious?
But I also know that she's headstrong and contentious. And.
You must've had a contentious relationship with your father.
Food and I have a contentious relationship ever since I was a young dancer, trying to make it.
I grew up with an older brother and a very contentious twin sister.
Today we'll be discussing the issue, the contentious issue.
Less contentious than usual!
I don't want this to be contentious, Jim.
This is no time to get contentious, kitty.
And a more contentious.
From now on, when there's a significant crime, a contentious dispute, an irreconcilable conflict, the council is judge and jury.
Edwin is more contentious with me than Craig is, have you noticed?
Also, for what it's worth, I've been known. to get contentious with men I unconsciously want to bed.
As they applied these criteria to each of the 20 drugs, it soon became clear how contentious this approach would be.
Both Khat and poppers are legal and neither are particularly contentious but the substance next on the list turns out to be one of the most controversial Class A drugs in Britain.
And henry, property development can get very contentious.
News and current affairs
And, when US forces overran Saddam Hussein's army in the spring of 2003, the encircled Iranians proposed a grand bargain that would put all contentious issues on the table, from the nuclear issue to Israel, from Hezbollah to Hamas.
Until November, divided government and contentious campaigning will most likely prevent significant policy moves.
As with in vitro fertilization, the British appear to have been the first to devise a regulatory scheme for morally contentious technology.
The third claim is hugely contentious.
In recent years, this long-running debate has become increasingly contentious - and the costs of stalemate are mounting.
This is why today's most contentious borders separate economies where the income gaps between people on the two sides are the greatest.
Such strategies complicate rural politics by producing a highly contentious dual power structure that pits party secretaries and village committee chiefs against one another.
Newer targeted treatments entering clinical trials are likely to be even more contentious because of their cost.
Perhaps the most contentious area of industrial policy is governments' role in research and development.
It also reeked of the European Union's peevish realization that its inability to get its act together on contentious issues was likely to place it firmly on the sidelines.
But China's export-led development model will need to be adjusted as global trade and financial balances become more contentious.
But the run-up to the trial was contentious.
The Socialists now have no choice but to engage in a debate that is certain to be loud and contentious.
Particularly contentious is the ongoing military operation in Wana district in the Northern Areas, which the Pakistani army has entered for the first time ever.
BOSTON - One of today's most contentious medical debates centers on cancer screening, the benefits of which seem anything but debatable.
China's prolonged - and apparently contentious - leadership transition, punctuated by the purge of Bo Xilai, suggests that its leaders' ability to continue to manage the country's emergence as a great power is not entirely certain.
NEW HAVEN - As the US Congress grapples with the ever-contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership - President Barack Obama's signature trade legislation - a major stumbling block looms.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a contentious legislature helped to bring such practices into public debate.
So, whoever aspires to help the parties reach a settlement needs to be attentive to the fact that territorial borders are only one aspect of this conflict - and not necessarily the most contentious one.
Nevertheless, to American eyes, other contentious issues are now emerging in relations with China.
The current negotiations will inevitably deal with rights to water, which do not seem to be very contentious anymore, and the talks can suggest various mechanisms for transfer of management in some cases and for shared management in others.
For Abe, the choice is whether to tone down his nationalist rhetoric and moderate his position on contentious historical issues.
The extent to which concern for human rights should be a consideration in setting foreign policy is a contentious issue in most democracies, which often believe that their own record entitles them to lecture others.
It is inevitable and right that Clinton will bring up Tibet, human rights, and other contentious issues.