contentious issue

collocation in English

meaningsofcontentiousandissue

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contentious
adjective
uk
/kənˈten.ʃəs/us
/kənˈten.ʃəs/
causing , involving, or likely to cause disagreement ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofcontentiousandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontentious issue

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One particularlycontentiousissueconcerns the use of bioproducts in cold regions.
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The payment of wages remains acontentiousissue, as the statutory wages are substantially higher than what the landowners are willing to pay.
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These proposals also challenge individuals to reevaluate and change their attitudes about preferential treatment, a notablycontentiousissuefor the general public.
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Anothercontentiousissuewas the use in subsequent studies of previously collected data and biological specimens.
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Policing is acontentiousissuefor nationalists, and despite recent reforms, many continue to regard the (new) police force with suspicion.
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The question of when and under what circumstances a child should be held back in school remains acontentiousissue.
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And so too, did thecontentiousissueof "helping out" in the case of problematic experiments.
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Nowhere is this more apparent than in thecontentiousissueof the "context" of talk.
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The term 'sound projection' is itself acontentiousissue, even among the advocates of multi-channel systems for the public presentation of (stereo) tapes.
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On one level, the choice of overseers in 1646 had become acontentiousissuebecause their immediate predecessors had been accused of maladministration.
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A secondcontentiousissuehas been the disclosure of medical records to psychiatric patients.
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The measurement of the propensity for crime has been acontentiousissuein the literature.
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A particularlycontentiousissuewas the population restriction for each village corridor that individual headmen were supposed to watch over.
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For instance, nationality and how it may affect decision-making has been acontentiousissue.
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As you know, this has turned out to be a verycontentiousissue.
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However, the assumption of generalizability is acontentiousissue.
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Thecontentiousissueis not whether inconvenience or harm can be visited upon one person to benefit another, but how much harm is permissible.
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This is acontentiousissueand one that in discussions concerning architectural research is continually connected to debates around architecture's uniqueness as a discipline.
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We now arrive at thecontentiousissueof methodology, perhaps the most salient fissure between generative syntactic theory and variationist sociolinguistics.
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