adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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highly
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Sometimes his segmentation is highly contentious .
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Magona's reexamination of a highly contentious political event leaves no easy answers.
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The interpretation of the private language argument is highly contentious .
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But the mechanism of direct action is unknown and the subject remains highly contentious .
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A public inquiry is usually employed, however, only if the appeal involves a very large or highly contentious development.
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Setting the fees for each pollutant would be highly contentious and beset by political wrangling.
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The tutor-librarian model, and title, was for some years highly contentious in the library profession as well as among many teachers.
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As a role model, she is a highly contentious one.
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It could contribute to encouraging Gingrich to be a less contentious figure.
more
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Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.
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Or would these moves have made the parish more contentious , poisoned the nurturing atmosphere, and proved ultimately self-defeating?
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How significant are the changes brought about by the introduction of this concept is more contentious .
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However, which musicians deserve the, ah, extra strokes is another, much more contentious , matter.
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The particular reasons are more contentious .
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However, the third assumption is more contentious .
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The exclusion of school-leavers from the unemployment figures is a more contentious issue.
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Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
most
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The most contentious issue in the early days of the second session was the collegiality of bishops.
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One of the earliest theories has also been one of the most contentious .
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Your identifying the most contentious point at issue was commendable.
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He was intimately involved with many of the most contentious issues in the three years of design and construction.
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The most contentious planning issue was perhaps the question of retailing.
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The last bar on my pub crawl is the most contentious .
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The third approach is most contentious .
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Standards are one of the most contentious issues in education.
■ NOUN
area
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It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be, if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out.
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One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.
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One particularly contentious area in the field of health and safety is the valuation of human life itself.
issue
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Outside the state apparatuses public opinion was becoming increasingly polarized over the contentious issue of greater state powers.
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Axworthy pointed to other contentious issues between the two neighbors that require resolution.
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Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues .
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Standards are one of the most contentious issues in education.
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The ultimate determinants of real investment, whether by foreign or domestic firms, remain a contentious issue in economic theory.
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Another contentious issue is whether the revisions themselves are legal since they were passed without notification to the opposition.
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Finally, there is the contentious issue of time-expired projects.
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With so much hype surrounding the Internet and its potential for commercial opportunities, market research has been a contentious issue .
subject
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Inflation had become a particularly serious and contentious subject .
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Jessica was yet another contentious subject my sister and I best avoid, I remember suddenly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Abortion has always been a contentious subject.
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Logging on public lands is a contentious issue.
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the contentious issue of arms sales to non-democratic countries
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even a decade ago, that would have been a contentious assertion.
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He was intimately involved with many of the most contentious issues in the three years of design and construction.
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In liquor he became sullen and contentious .
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It seems reasonable to suppose that they should be, if the contentious area of imaginative literature is ruled out.
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One particularly contentious area in the field of health and safety is the valuation of human life itself.
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With so much hype surrounding the Internet and its potential for commercial opportunities, market research has been a contentious issue.