(a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
(a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
(a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) How to administer the fund is another contentious area.
(3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
(4) The election in the capital of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation has been deeply contentious.
(5) I can only say, we want to do more in terms of research and we obviously want to support our scientists.” NCRIS is not specifically mentioned in the contentious higher education bill that the Senate will debate next week.
(6) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
(7) Garcia, who sought to interview all 22 executive committee members who made the contentious decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar but found some who are no longer in football beyond his reach, delivered his report this month.
(8) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
(9) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
(10) Southern said on Tuesday it would reinstate travel passes for staff and allow them to swap shifts, reversing two contentious moves following strike action.
(11) Meanwhile, MPs in Athens approved the contentious reforms and austerity package demanded by its creditors amid angry scenes in parliament and violent clashes on the streets on Wednesday.
(12) Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, has resigned, formally setting off what will be a contentious election to replace him.
(13) There is a growing conviction that medical technologies are major contributors to escalating costs, and regulating them is generally viewed as the least contentious way to control expenses in the 1980's.
(14) The contentious position is set to be waved into the final EU negotiating position by consensus.
(15) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
(16) The treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted the government might be prepared to shift ground on its insistence that a crucial $150m research funding extension hinges on the passage of contentious legislation to deregulate university fees.
(17) Business rates have long been a contentious issue among retailers, who argue the system penalises high street premises and unfairly benefits online retailers.
(18) Osborne also envisages “demonstrating the concept” of safe fracking by “focusing on a small number of sites in less contentious locations” including “public sector land (particularly MOD owned)”.
(19) Trump is an isolationist so the Chinese are going to see that as an opportunity to keep strengthening their position and their role in the region.” Delury said Trump was also likely to ditch the highly contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which under Obama had been “a centrepiece of an American resurgence of its role in Asia”.
(20) Political distortion And in all of this, Brooks consistently injected a highly contentious political ideology into the arteries of public debate, a toxic cocktail of crude populism and intellectual confusion.
Moot
Definition:
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
(v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
(v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
(v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
(n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
(v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
(a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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Example Sentences:
(1) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(2) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
(3) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(4) The debate over whether to start with supply-side (investor) or demand-side (consumer) measures is a moot one, once confidence is at a low.
(5) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
(6) The participation of the peritrophic membrane in a midgut barrier to infection of C. tarsalis, and many other mosquito species, by arboviruses is considered a moot point.
(7) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(8) A rail link has long been mooted, with proposals released earlier this year for a project that would provide trains every 10 minutes to the airport, servicing an estimated six million people a year.
(9) Several other roles have been mooted for Brooks, though the company downplayed suggestions that she would run Storyful, a Dublin-based social media news agency started by the former RTÉ current affairs presenter Mark Little, or manage the Sun’s digital operations.
(10) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
(11) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(12) The most plausible explanation for Kennedy’s disinterest in the question is that he believes it will be moot because all of the state bans will fall.
(13) Separately, competition rules mean that business secretary Vince Cable must make a quasi-judicial ruling about whether to refer the mooted merger to the Competition Commission on grounds of a threat to national security.
(14) The mooted changes would be more likely to have broader effect.
(15) The protests, the product of rising tensions linked to mooted early elections, spending cuts and political upheavals in neighbouring Thailand and Singapore, echo events across the Muslim world.
(16) Michael Fallon was speaking up for millions up and down the country.” Peter Bone, MP for Wellingborough, said: “No 10 and Mr Fallon are saying the same thing, but he is reflecting more the words you hear on the doorstep.” Fallon’s comments followed Cameron’s pledge to make changes to the principle of freedom of movement of workers within the EU – a “red line” in a mooted renegotiation of the UK’s membership terms.
(17) One mooted solution is to cut the campaign period in half so that the vote would be held on 18 December.
(18) • Was the Saints’ victory this weekend really down to the factors I mooted above, or was it actually just because they got back to eating Popeyes chicken before the game ?
(19) In the wake of the Scottish referendum result , it was mooted in a BBC discussion that Britain has a “poverty of perspective” issue.
(20) The IMF describes the markets’ so-called “taper tantrum” earlier this year, after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke mooted the idea of “tapering” QE, as a “mini stress test”, which helped to reveal how investors might respond as monetary policy returns to normal.