contentiousness

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• Calls to keep cats indoors are often contentious among cat owners, and cats can sometimes reject colorful collars or loud bells designed to make them more noticeable.

• After the contentious meeting ended, they spoke privately, and Nesbitt agreed to look into the issue.

• Judge Christina Klinger’s ruling sets up what is likely to be an increasingly contentious legal battle over the state’s Amendment A, which allows residents to grow, license and sell cannabis.

• That type of union typically seeks federal certification to prove that it represents the majority of employees — a long and often contentious process conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

• There are studies that find that keto diets increase energy expenditure, and the issue is very contentious.

• A new study released today in Obstetrics & Gynecology could close this contentious question for good.

• It was the first case brought under the Voting Rights Act, so the hearing proved contentious.

• Arkansas has long had a contentious relationship with alcohol.

• It became a model, rarely emulated, of how digital tools can be used to find common ground in a contentious society.

• Those that are hesitant about Powell may point to her contentious “resignation” as the first female ambassador to India in March.

• Opposed to the Brachmanes there are philosophers, called Pramnæ, contentious people, and fond of argument.

• "A man shouldn't speak more than twice in his first session, and not at first on too contentious a topic," said Sir Edward.

• Possessing a high tempered and somewhat contentious nature, Giberne was involved in numerous sharp controversies.