bone of contention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofboneandcontention
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bone
noun[C or U]
uk/bəʊn/us/boʊn/
any of the hard parts inside a human or animal that make up ...
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contention
noun
uk/kənˈten.ʃən/us/kənˈten.ʃən/
the disagreement that results from ...
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(Definition ofboneandcontentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theboneofcontentionis the section on registration of political parties.
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The wording of resolution no. 11 was very tentative, with theboneofcontentionbeing the site of the collection station.
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One importantboneofcontentionis the definition of the relevant set of studies.
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Theboneofcontentionwas neither the music, nor the version chosen, nor even the inadequacy of several singers.
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The refinery also was aboneofcontention.
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Again this had been a persistentboneofcontentionbetween the board of education and its critics throughout the interwar period.
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In addition, anotherboneofcontentionsoon arose thereafter.
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By the late 1930s, stool debts were receding as aboneofcontention, but the struggles continued.
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I suspect that this critical issue will prove to be a majorboneofcontentionand it requires some attention.
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The mainboneofcontentionis this—because everything can be brought down to practicalities in the end.
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Theboneofcontentionis one which he declared did not exist—the labelling according to fibre content of cloths containing wool.
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I appreciate that one does not always want taxis to pass one by, and that is anotherboneofcontention.
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The mainboneofcontention, however, is the issue of which types of incident should be covered.
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We know that it had been aboneofcontentionfor years.
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Theboneofcontentionis which route should be taken in relation to the transfer of certain powers and responsibilities.
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This is my second smallboneofcontention.
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There are two matters which are the mainboneofcontention.
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In this wicked world, money is always aboneofcontention.
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I welcome that, because it has been aboneofcontentionin the recent past for fishermen.
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That has been aboneofcontentionthroughout the years.
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He will know what a seriousboneofcontentionit is in the police service that these increases do not apply to police pensioners.
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In the areas where leasehold reform is a social problem, the matter has been aboneofcontentionfor 80 years.
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He will be aware that special powers and internment have been a realboneofcontentionfor the minority.
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Every one of them has been aboneofcontention, and every one could, in other circumstances, grow into something more.
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This has so often been aboneofcontention.
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