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contentious

contentious
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • involving or likely to cause controversy
    "a central and contentious element of the book"
    contentious
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
      • inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
      "a style described as abrasive and contentious"

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      1. You're being contentious.
      2. Sometimes, hockey players get so contentious with each other that fights break out.
      3. Contentious appeals
      4. However, the matter is contentious as regards the value of Siemens's share and potentially lengthy litigation is pending before the German courts.
      5. Contentious issues relating to emerging technologies should be addressed by society on the basis of well informed debate leading to sound choices and decisions.
      6. Where the Agency identifies a potential source of conflict, it shall contact the body concerned in order to ensure that any relevant scientific or technical information is shared and to identify the scientific or technical points which are potentially contentious.
      7. Where a substantive divergence over scientific issues has been identified and the body in question is a Community body, the Scientific Committee concerned shall, on the request of the Commission, cooperate with the body concerned with a view to either resolving the divergence or presenting a joint document to the Commission clarifying the contentious scientific issues and identifying the relevant uncertainties in the data.
      8. As regards the public service delegation for Marseille-Corsica services, the majority of CFF’s observations relate to the procedure for granting the new public service delegation for the period 2007-2012/2013 and the contentious proceedings initiated by CFF before the national courts, which were subsequently dismissed by the national courts.