| contentious issue | 40.22 | But some contentious issues are apparent. | ||
| contentious debate | 4.81 | It is likely to be a contentious debate. | ||
| contentious relationship | 3.42 | Schnabel and Basquiat had had a contentious relationship. | ||
| contentious battle | 1.84 | Takeover experts expect a contentious battle. | ||
| contentious matter | 1.25 | Agreement appeared to be far off on another contentious matter. | ||
| contentious meeting | 1.25 | Ministers arrive for what could be contentious meeting. | ||
| contentious one | 1.25 | It is also a highly contentious one. | ||
| contentious area | 1.18 | Again this is another contentious area. | ||
| contentious election | 1.18 | Konare was returned to a second term in that contentious election. | ||
| contentious provision | 1.18 | The most contentious provision involves investigations of human rights abuses. | ||
| contentious topic | 1.18 | Sex has proved the most contentious topic. | ||
| contentious negotiation | 1.12 | The often contentious negotiations took weeks. | ||
| contentious question | 1.12 | Then there were less contentious questions. | ||
| contentious subject | 1.05 | This is a contentious subject. | ||
| contentious hearing | 0.99 | Last March, Hatch had blasted Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in a contentious hearing. | ||
| contentious part | 0.79 | But that was hardly the most contentious part of the debate. | ||
| contentious point | 0.79 | The law on manpower, for example, contains many contentious points. | ||
| contentious trade | 0.79 | Contentious trade issues remain, however. | ||
| contentious relation | 0.72 | The GM bargaining is complicated by the contentious relations between company and union. | ||
| contentious decision | 0.66 | But there were some contentious decisions by Steve Bucknor. |