Sentences with 'contentious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contentious and other words derived from it.
• « Huge numbers of middle-class or even working-class young people became the first in their families to attend universities, and the contentious political climate of the Cold War and decolonisation contributed to an explosion of discontent that reached its peak in the late 1960s. »
• « Culturally, the idea of sovereignty has always been a contentious one for modern democracies, because it presupposes the right of the state to exercise control over goods that - from a democratic perspective - should be able to circulate freely and be produced and consumed without restriction. However, the state - above all, through the education system - prioritises certain issues related to tradition, language, national history, and so on. »
• « Evasion and disregard for the law were widespread in almost all the colonies, but the issue was especially contentious in New York, the home of the British forces. »