contentiousness

contentious | American Dictionary

contentious
adjective
us/kənˈten·ʃəs/
causing or likely to cause disagreement:
a contentious subject

Examples of contentious

contentious
However, some of the detail is highly contentious, to put it mildly.
Settlements of boundaries between villages were by all accounts tremendously contentious issues.
Commemoration of the supposed conspiracy of 1641 raised no contentious or disturbing issues.
Counting, except of crowds and heaps, is less contentious.
An adequate sociology of contentious public discourse, however, shows that social movements must often act coercively in order to be included.
Step 2 in the argument will likely seem more contentious.
The final sequence of chapters on politics, though deeply convincing at the level of detail, is much the most contentious.
Although the theory of control structures is a contentious area of generative grammar, there are some generalizations that are widely agreed on.
The bargaining explanation, and contentious politics in general, depends on agitation by regional language elites for promotion of their languages.
In short, practice was very varied and any change was likely to be contentious.
It is after the failure to resolve the contentious issues at stake within the framework of appropriate policy dialogues that enforcement actions are taken.
He describes a contentious and secretive process of the bottom+up (or middle+up) drafting of orders that eventually reach the emperor for approval.
Contentious deductions are arguments that appear acceptable at first sight but, upon closer inspection, are not.
However, their content and conduct is highly contentious and discussion is problematised.
However, the new historiography has had less impact on the contentious question of church-state relations in the founding era.
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