contentious aspect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontentiousandaspect
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contentious
adjective
uk/kənˈten.ʃəs/us/kənˈten.ʃəs/
causing , involving, or likely to cause disagreement ...
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aspect
noun
uk/ˈæs.pekt/us/ˈæs.pekt/
one part of a situation, problem, ...
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(Definition ofcontentiousandaspectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The most controversial andcontentiousaspectof party policy therefore concerned pressure to compromise over free trade.
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Perhaps the mostcontentiousaspectof the tree manipulation process described above is the elimination of unary structure.
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Green focuses most of his attention on the inner workings of practical reason, and, as one might expect, this area is the mostcontentiousaspectof his theory of religion.
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The mostcontentiousaspectof this electoral system is that the lists are fixed and the electorate has no say in the order in which the candidates are selected.
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The report described delays in local authority search inquiries as "the mostcontentiousaspectof the operation of local authority registers".
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The mostcontentiousaspectof the report is certainly the question of the level of illumination for the experiment.
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I now come to what may be the mostcontentiousaspectof our proposals—our rewriting of the proposed new subsection (5).
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The existence of a railway crossing in the centre of the city has always been the mostcontentiousaspectof an unresolved debate.
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The date by which all stall and tether systems must comply is the mostcontentiousaspectof the regulations.
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By emphasising deep geological disposal, the programme before us seeks to make nuclear generation socially acceptable by evading the mostcontentiousaspect.
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Perhaps the mostcontentiousaspectfacing us at the present time is that of the bulk selling of part or the whole of certain of our crops.
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This is particularly difficult when they are aware of the background of some of the contentious aspects of the human rights issues at stake.
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This is evident in that these detailed descriptions were only the last, and least contentious aspects in the disputes overall.
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He argues, rather, that the social context and more contentious aspects of this settlement process have been overlooked.
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We have no intention of introducing similar arrangements for the handling of other contentious aspects of schools' work.
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There are some contentious aspects to rural activities.
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Criticism was levelled at the old-fashioned scenario and at the inexpressive performances of the principal actors, but the most contentious aspects were the film's visual and technical innovations.
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