contentious Význam & definícia

Príklady contentious

• The proposal is highly contentious.

• The couple were in the middle of a contentious divorce.

• The first months of the Administration were contentious, with fights over how to deal with North Korea and global warming.

• However, some of the detail is highly contentious, to put it mildly.

• Settlements of boundaries between villages were by all accounts tremendously contentious issues.

• Commemoration of the supposed conspiracy of 1641 raised no contentious or disturbing issues.

• Counting, except of crowds and heaps, is less contentious.

• An adequate sociology of contentious public discourse, however, shows that social movements must often act coercively in order to be included.