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.
Step 2 in the argument will likely seem more contentious.
The final sequence of chapters on politics, though deeply convincing at the level of detail, is much the most contentious.
Although the theory of control structures is a contentious area of generative grammar, there are some generalizations that are widely agreed on.
