Private infrastructure developers and long term investors essentially withdrew as Governments were unable to put in place sustainable policies that assured adequate and predictable returns, particularly in the politically contentious power and water sectors (World Bank, ibid.).

But the run up to the trial was contentious.

As discussed above, humanitarian intervention is a contentious issue.

What I actually said is, they're not contentious at all.

Contentious foreign policy makes contacts uneasy and agreements difficult to reach.

That is embodied in the issue of cotton, which remains contentious.

This article was initially viewed as the most contentious in the Convention.

But the Council has left this potentially contentious subject out of recent discussions.

Fundamental questions, including how to operate a banking union in Europe, remain contentious.

So Twitter has become a major tool to promote contentious politics in China.

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike

For now, Cuba is politically stable.

Nevertheless, to American eyes, other contentious issues are now emerging in relations with China.

What remains debatable and contentious is the right of citizens to choose their leaders.

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Where the issues are still contentious, let us be prepared to take smaller steps.

As a result, arms exports to third countries remain a contentious issue within the EU.

But the most contentious part of debt restructuring could well be reaching inter governmental agreements.

Perhaps the most contentious area of industrial policy is governments role in research and development.

Consider what is potentially the most contentious issue, how to cope with Iran s nuclear program.

Whether individuals can repress and recover memories of traumatic sexual abuse has been especially contentious.

For once, over employment is politically justified.

Morally, pragmatically, and politically, he was right.

We need each other politically as well.

But removing protection is always politically difficult.

Politically, Darfur finds itself at a stalemate.

Despite coming from a contentious region, Al Halabi does not let politics drive his art work.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

The tools that they provide are politically neutral.

Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

Any hint of compromise will expose officials politically.

This is a politically understandable but flawed policy.

Communism had left Poland politically and economically bankrupt.

Saudi Arabia supports the TFG financially and politically.

Indeed, its existential essence rendered it politically untranslatable.

In 1850, the Platine region was politically unstable.

LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA There are numerous aspects to the United States China relationship some currently contentious, others cooperative.

For example, member states could consult on sensitive or contentious issues within the Political and Security Committee.

It is inevitable and right that Clinton will bring up Tibet, human rights, and other contentious issues.

Does not man see that We created him from a drop . Yet there he is , flagrantly contentious ,

Does not man see that We created him from a drop . Yet there he is , flagrantly contentious ,

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

Politically, America is still the land of Big Oil.

Privatization efforts are often highly salient politically and unpopular.