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Example sentences for: contentious

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But in 1994, fearing a contentious debate about fast-track renewal so soon after the NAFTA battle, President Clinton allowed fast track to expire . Now that Clinton is keen on negotiating a free-trade agreement with Chile and other Latin American countries, he has requested that fast track be granted for the duration of his term.
The NYT , while noting that Bradley showed "a new persistence and aggressiveness" and that health care was a contentious issue, said the two candidates "agreed more than they disagreed."
If people are unhappy now--thanks to contentious, self-serving news writers who are more bent on garnering attention through controversy than they are through enlightenment--they are going to be miserable when they realize what they have done to themselves.
The quagmire of ethical, legal, moral, and even aesthetic questions that surround the use (and misuse) of leftover body parts can only become more complex and contentious, not less.
On the contentious issue of gerrymandering, racial or otherwise: The practice is to be deplored not on grounds of high principle, but because, by creating safe seats for one or another party or interest group, it makes "elections meaningless."