3 sentences with 'contention'

Example sentences and phrases with the word contention and other words derived from it.


« A key point of contention was that the Jews refused to speak of the divinity of the emperors. »
« To the north-east of China there is a peninsula stretching from ancient Manchuria to Japan, which has long been a bone of contention between the two countries. »
« Marrow and animal brains: delicacies which, when it comes to eating, are a source of contention in the family. It is not because there is so little of it, but because it is very difficult to obtain either of these two delicacies. »

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