Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
Tending to argument or strife.
1 It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
2 However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly contentious exercise.
3 Yet in this year's contentious Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
4 The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
5 However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly - contentious term in his stinging retort.
6 The other highly contentious inclusion was David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.
7 Pay levels for chief executives of State bodies have long been contentious .
8 The contentious legislation passed its final hurdle to become law last night.
9 Immigration is a live and contentious issue right across the European Union.
10 The new policy has come together after contentious meetings within the administration.
11 This decision means the marchers will avoid the contentious lower Ormeau Road.
12 Although 19 states now allow same-sex marriage, it remains highly contentious elsewhere.
13 He addressed the contentious debate of the day without even being asked.
14 Graham Satchell reports from Somerset where the issue of dredging remains contentious .
15 The debate that gold is an alternative currency continues to be contentious .
16 However, what we've seen in the Eastern Cape is even more contentious .
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