Some of the more contentious bills, including the measure that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, likely face a more contentious path to the president's desk.
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So we'll see the more "contentious" parts of their coupling.
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The multistakeholder talks on facial recognition technology were more contentious.
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Is there any television debate more contentious than this one?
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Romney has had an even more contentious relationship with Trump.
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More contentious is the claim that these documents illuminate Mrs.
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Potentially more contentious is the mayonnaise squeezed into the rice.
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Instead, he suggests simply being more contentious about energy usage.
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What to do about it is a more contentious matter.
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His first presidential foray into popular democracy will be more contentious.
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Here are 10 of the more contentious calls of the season.
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But this year's fight could be longer and even more contentious.
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More contentious than the handshake is the issue of female Freemasons.
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Here are some of the more contentious moments from this afternoon.
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The relationship between these two brothers is slowly becoming more contentious.
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The situation has only become more contentious in the days since.
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There was pushback against some of Donald Trump's more contentious proposals.
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According to Fredrik Gregorius, it's only going to get more contentious.
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Mr. Peres simply does not grapple with the more contentious episodes.
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One of the more contentious issues is that of bondholder prioritization.
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Risk weighting is more contentious because it is more potentially destabilising.
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Now you're looking to areas that are more contentious as well.
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But some issues are more contentious to stand up for than others.
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All these questions will only become more contentious at the national level.
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Protests at Trump rallies increasingly have become more contentious in recent days.
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Shortly after Baldwin's joke, Trump released even more contentious tweets about Russia.
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Still, the race is only getting more contentious as the runoff nears.
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In the 22019 presidential campaign no issue is more contentious than immigration.
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Where things get more contentious is in recommending a course of action.
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The Brazilian government's role in the disputes has been even more contentious.
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This will make the already complicated -- and political -- process even more contentious.
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As it turned out, the choice was more contentious than it seemed.
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This OPEC meeting has been more contentious than other recent get-togethers.
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Since then, the debate around guns in schools has only grown more contentious.
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The other case set for argument Monday may prove a bit more contentious.
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But that will happen only if another measure passes which is more contentious.
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The decision to turn Menelik's palace into a museum is even more contentious.
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Wealth divisions that coincide with stark cultural differences, however, can be more contentious.
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Even apart from North Korea, relations with China could soon turn more contentious.
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This kind of cap on subsidy growth is an even more contentious issue.
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None of these has been more contentious than orders and policies surrounding immigration.
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The last-minute claim sets the stage for an even more contentious hearing.
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The vote in the House was more contentious than the one in the Senate.
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He also played a role in one of the Army's more contentious criminal cases.
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The close race grew more contentious when the White House intervened earlier this month.
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The tight Ohio Senate race has grown more contentious over the past several weeks.
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As more is at stake, the battle over who makes decisions grows more contentious.
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Supreme Court nominations are now significantly more contentious than they were a generation ago.
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Wilmington Trust's Anthony Roth is bracing for a more contentious climate on Wall Street.
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That could make any effort by Democrats to focus on that issue more contentious.
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That makes the apportionment of liability even more contentious, with defendants blaming one another.
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But a far more contentious topic is the changes being made to their equipment.
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Kavanaugh's confirmation will likely be much more contentious, however, because there's more at stake.
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Improving cross-border financial flows matters as much as the more contentious fiscal risk-sharing.
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During the Obama years, immigration grew even more contentious and rhetoric intensified on both sides.
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The pair had been among some of the more contentious selections to join Trump's Cabinet.
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Since then the debate over permissible speech on college campuses has only become more contentious.
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Money can make divorce more contentious, but it can also make it far less frightening.
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By every measure, the Kavanaugh hearings are much more contentious and disruptive of settled norms.
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The nomination battle lasted more than two years and could not have been more contentious.
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Guns have become more contentious in the wake of high-profile mass shootings like Parkland.
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Leahy proposed advancing the non-controversial bills while negotiations over the more contentious bills continued.
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The meeting, which lasted 15 minutes, did not touch on more contentious issues like immigration.
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The achievement of Brexit will mark a milestone toward a much more contentious international order.
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Any session devoted to obstruction of justice and presidential powers could be much more contentious.
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But anonymous developers and private code have made Bitcoin Gold more contentious than even Bitcoin Cash.
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One of the more contentious hearings could be over Rex Tillerson, nominated for secretary of state.
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Judicial confirmations are more contentious and vitriolic than at any other point in the nation's history.
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Far more contentious, however, has been the subject of what will become of the rebels themselves.
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Morrisey and Jenkins have been locked in one of the more contentious GOP primaries this cycle.
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The job losses envisioned today, while smaller, may be more contentious when the economy is slowing.
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Already, it seems, leaders don't have much appetite to get into those more contentious policy fights.
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However, this year's speech will be a markedly more contentious year between the President and Democrats.
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And you could take a stab at other, more contentious questions, like: are they rich or poor?
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What's really at stake here are two far more contentious things: what is the future of Bitcoin?
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The series knows politics is more contentious than ever, but that's about all it seems to know.
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Still more contentious is what mechanism would serve as the basis for heightened understanding through sensorimotor activation.
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But no piece of real estate is more contentious than a hill in the city's southeast corner.
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But what of more contentious resolutions, such as one condemning North Korea for abuses of human rights?
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Moving some of them off site was one of the more contentious aspects of the previous plan.
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The proposal did not cover some of the more contentious immigration issues, like the so-called Dreamers.
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Congress is expected to consider additional aid in the coming weeks but the debate could grow more contentious.
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But for more contentious cases, however, Kagan acknowledged that the court tends to be divided in predictable ways.
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The divorce between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp now seems far more contentious than it had to be.
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Father Conroy's resignation is all the more contentious in Catholic circles because Mr. Ryan is a Catholic conservative.
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American politics have become more polarized during Obama's time in office, so Supreme Court nominations are more contentious.
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Polls show that the next Parliament could be even more contentious, leading to more months of political limbo.
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A Tennessee Democratic Party spokesperson told me the broadband battle is being drowned out by more contentious rhetoric.
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So if anyone was wondering if the debate could have been any more contentious, the answer is yes.
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Which means one of the most fraught disputes in the world could become even more contentious very soon.
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While the company has long used people to curate its App Store, the news is far more contentious.
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"There has not been any progress, at least officially, in terms of the more contentious issues," Catril added.
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These seemingly innocuous statues therefore tell a much more contentious story about the state of contemporary American politics.
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A single-payer system would engage even more contentious issues of federalism and the reach of national government.
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The fight between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino iPhone is growing more contentious by the day.
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But there's been a more contentious debate about whether preventative aspirin could help relatively healthy people avoid heart problems.
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Some more contentious issues were kicked down the road to be discussed by newly formed committees, the sources said.
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"It looks like we may be entering a much more contentious period of the US-China relationship," warned Bishop.
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The impending death of the 3.5mm audio port is one of the more contentious tech industry narratives this year.
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Immigration Just when you think it can't get more contentious, we hit a new low in the immigration battle.
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Meanwhile, Glencore was also sounding out its biggest shareholders about another potentially more contentious part of the debt plan.
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YOU SAW THIS IN P & G, AS YOU GET CLOSER TO THE VOTE, IT GETS A LITTLE MORE CONTENTIOUS.
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The Salton Sea will begin drying up after one of the Southwest's more contentious water transfers goes into effect.
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Mr. Pei would make his biggest international mark, however, in France, with a smaller but far more contentious project.
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Unlike his bandmate Mike Love's recent, more contentious "Good Vibrations," Wilson's book doesn't set out to settle any scores.
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But several forces are at work making this year's budget process even more contentious than usual, according to analysts.
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Midterm elections So, what did we learn about ourselves as a country after these more-contentious-than-normal midterms?
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On this score, the Space Force is likely to make space a more contentious and dangerous environment, not less.
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The different approaches proved to be one of the more contentious debates in the monthslong negotiation over the bill.
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I mean, it is more contentious that what I'm used to in this show, let's put it that way.
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All this means that global trade is about to become a lot less predictable and a lot more contentious.
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Nonetheless, the documents quickly revived a debate that has only become more contentious since the league announced the policy.
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But ANT has grown more aggressive in recent years, especially as Turkey's relationship with Brussels has grown more contentious.
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City lawmakers are also considering more contentious legislation, supported by police reform advocates, that would regulate stop-and-frisk encounters.
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Perhaps that memory is why so many voters headed to the polls early in this even more contentious presidential race.
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More contentious issues, like a federal gun-licensing system or a ban on assault weapons, feature a divide, with Democratic
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Jeff Lewis says his ex partner Gage Edward is threatening to hire a lawyer as their split grows more contentious.
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It gets a bit more contentious when Offset asks why he got pulled over and isn't satisfied with the answer.
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What's next: This is a long trial that will probably last two months, and it will only get more contentious.
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Among the more contentious elements is a plan for a 200-unit condominium to help subsidize the $783 billion redevelopment.
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The hubbub around Father Conroy is all the more contentious in Catholic circles because Mr. Ryan is a Catholic conservative.
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Miley's remarks probably won't sit well with the LGBTQ community, and could potentially make her divorce from Liam more contentious.
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Some believe it could be more contentious because Democrats took control of both the Virginia House and Senate this year.
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This infighting would only grow more contentious during the dry season, as the hippos squabble over less and less water.
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But the push to open membership to elves, Grinches, reindeer handlers and Santas with designer beards has proved more contentious.
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After senators hear these opening arguments, "the more contentious issue of witnesses will be addressed by the Senate," McConnell said.
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Congress could pass them through the tax reform process, though, rather than as part of a more contentious education bill.
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Central banks will almost immediately have to rely on the much more contentious and less certain instrument of quantitative easing (QE).
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Lowering the 60-vote threshold on new laws and spending bills could prove even more contentious than using it on nominees.
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Why it matters: Beijing is trying to figure out how to avoid a much more contentious phase of U.S.–China relations.
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Mr. Prettyman's association with Chief Justice Roberts continued after he had mentored him at Hogan Lovells, though in more contentious circumstances.
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But trying to change how people drive is proving far more contentious than simply replacing dirtier power plants with cleaner ones.
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Her confirmation hearing, held amid a blitz of cabinet proceedings for far more contentious nominees, was incident-free, bordering on breezy.
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During the same time, vaping of a more contentious substance has been swiftly growing, with scant notice from public health officials.
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As debates over gender and sexuality grow ever more contentious, sexual violence in conflict continues to disproportionately impact women and girls.
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David Greenfield, chairman of the land use committee, said that that proposal may be even more contentious because concerns differ among boroughs.
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That immediately triggered speculation that the trade war will be extended and more contentious, and the U.S. economy risks falling into recession.
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Whether they are willing to accept more contentious proposals around legal immigration remains one of the biggest questions of this week's negotiations.
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With "The Red Woman," fans of Martin's novels had to contend with a whole mess of surprises, some more contentious than others.
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Clinton has 2425 percent of support and Mr. Sanders has 25 percent as the competition between the two has become more contentious.
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But "phase two" centers around trade negotiations, which is likely to be an even more contentious issue in the months to come.
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Just when it seems like things can't get any more contentious, Nicole Brown Simpson's old 911 tapes are released to the public.
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Under House rules, any one member can block a unanimous consent request, which means more contentious proposals wouldn't be able to advance.
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The image of generals as heroes also has faded, Ms. Israeli said, as Israel's battles have become more contentious and less decisive.
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That debate is likely to grow more contentious in the wake of M.I.T.'s decision to keep Mr. Díaz on its faculty.
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Luke Messer (Ind.), with whom he has sparred for months in one of the more contentious primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
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Yulin's local government took modest steps to restrain or hide some of the more contentious activities, such as selling dogs in food markets.
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What makes it even more contentious is that testosterone limits also apply to transgender women, who were born male but identify as women.
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Yet, in the more contentious, ideologically charged social dilemmas, his vote can be unpredictable, and therefore up for grabs during negotiations with colleagues.
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APRA Chairman Wayne Byres had expressed reservations with some of the more contentious recommendations from the capability review, including a veto on directors.
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Clinton is still contending with resistance to her candidacy from supporters of Mr. Sanders as their contest carries on and grows more contentious.
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Democrats are also vowing to confront more contentious issues head on, including proposals to protect "Dreamers," toughen gun laws and strengthen voting protections.
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As for those sporty stilettos, brace yourself for the possible redux of one of the more contentious footwear conceits of the past decade...
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The fight in the subcommittee could signal a more contentious and lengthy debate when the full committee takes up the bill next week.
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The official cast the plan as a starting point designed to identify areas where Republicans agree before moving forward with more contentious issues.
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Plenty of subjects stress Andreessen out — he believes the next election will somehow be even more contentious than the one we just survived.
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She hasn't specified exactly how her plan would work, or who would qualify, glossing over the more contentious details of a reform package.
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One of the more contentious — and consequential — international relationships is set to be that between Donald Trump and the German leader Angela Merkel.
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The view is dominated by the Piggyback Yard, a Union Pacific property, and one of the more contentious development sites abutting the river.
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The good-will gesture has a rich history, but one of its more contentious episodes occurred 80 years ago: the Cherry Tree Rebellion.
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Observers on all sides say it is too early to know with certainty whether more contentious social legislation will eventually emerge this year.
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While comparisons have been made to Ireland's 2015 referendum legalizing same-sex marriage, abortion rights advocates believe this issue will be more contentious.
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A ruling on a more contentious dispute involving the Seville-based company's bankrupt U.S. subsidiary and a failed power plant is still pending.
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At a time when Congress has arguably been more contentious than ever, the House Select Committee on Congressional Modernization has been unusually harmonious.
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The strong cosmic hypothesis is much more contentious, and the new research published this week offers the strongest refutation of its validity yet.
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People were getting more intoxicated, and doing more drugs, and I could feel things becoming more contentious, especially because it was standing room only.
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Plans for euro zone reform, however, are more contentious, although Merkel said on Monday, she hoped to make progress on the issue by March.
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The outcome could lead to more contentious battles between TV providers and content creators, and perhaps stem the tide of rising cable TV bills.
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The FCC's August agenda includes items on accessibility and inmate calling services, but not any of the several more contentious items before the agency.
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The negotiations in the 22010 bank bailout were much more contentious as the optics of a bank bailout were politically unpopular with both parties.
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But investors are now grappling with the potential for a protracted conflict, as the president signaled the negotiations could be more contentious than expected.
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In return for its backing this time, the party has said it will extract deep concessions from the CDU-CSU, making talks more contentious.
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The negotiations with G.M. were more contentious because it had announced it would close three plants, including a small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio.
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He predicts that "Down With This Sort of Thing" may decline in placard popularity as "people get angrier" and the issues become even more contentious.
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That proposal was even more contentious than the one in Brooklyn, because one of the schools is on the state's list of persistently dangerous schools.
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Nonetheless, if Canada and the United States can no longer work together on river management, the prospects for collaboration on more contentious subjects look dim.
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More contentious was Mr. Kaine's sponsorship of an ordinance to prevent the Nation of Islam from selling Final Call newspapers from a downtown median strip.
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Until recently, we have been unable to answer this question with solid data, even as the national debate about this issue has grown more contentious.
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At the same time, even apparently innocuous drives, such as her efforts to reduce childhood obesity, have become more contentious than she might have expected.
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He also shot back sarcastically when asked whether Mr. Sanders might change the tone of the campaign that in recent weeks has become more contentious.
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Yet there was no reference to the more contentious things he did as mayor, like overhauling the school system and trying to ban big sodas.
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The gesture of international good will has a rich history, but one of its more contentious episodes occurred 80 years ago: the Cherry Tree Rebellion.
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Diplomats saw Thursday's decision as a first step toward tackling the far more contentious issue of how or where to prosecute those identified as responsible.
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The race became more contentious in recent weeks after reports emerged that Republicans had purchased television advertisements boosting another Democratic candidate, state lawmaker Erica Smith.
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But the relationship between past and present has always been complicated, and it has become much more contentious recently as the events in Charlottesville showed.
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Efforts to promote diversity in the Academy and in the movie industry overall are likely to intensify, and the culture wars will get even more contentious.
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Whereas attacks such as the one on Mr Skripal have been almost universally condemned, the use of drones to kill targeted individuals has been more contentious.
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Research shows that consumers expect brands to stand up for issues they believe in, although some issues are more contentious to stand up for than others.
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"We've seen more and more contentious votes, and Brett Kavanaugh being the most contentious vote in the Senate for any justice in American history," Loyd said.
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Expect a more contentious atmosphere when the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee meets next Tuesday on whether to recommend Betsy DeVos for Education secretary.
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Even during some of the more contentious points of the match, he repeatedly lauded Cecchinato for making a nice drop shot or an impossibly good serve.
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The two leaders are expected to take part in a roundtable on women in the workforce, in addition to broaching potentially more contentious issues like trade.
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The South China Morning Post summarized the commentary by Long Guoqiang: The bottom line: Both sides look to be preparing for a much more contentious relationship.
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If Ms. Vestager does win the presidency, that could set the United States and Europe up for an even more contentious relationship in the months ahead.
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One of the more contentious issues involving Israel in recent years is now before Congress, testing America's bedrock principles of freedom of speech and political dissent.
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There are few subjects — perhaps José Mourinho apart — more contentious, more keenly felt than the issue of whether Guardiola deserves the lofty reputation that precedes him.
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But Price, an orthopedic surgeon, is also a member of a controversial group that could reveal even more contentious views than the ones he's expressed publicly.
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The Simpsons has never been afraid to poke fun at its network or the current president, but it has generally steered clear of these more contentious insults.
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But the pre-convention meeting in 7 was more contentious than usual, as loyalists to Mitt Romney led a successful push to change a number of rules.
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Yet this is only phase one: The more contentious issues will arise in the next one when Britain and the EU wrangle over post-Brexit trading arrangements.
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That's a "gut punch" to Microsoft, indicating Amazon's challenge to the Pentagon's decision might be more contentious than the company hoped, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said.
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Democrats, however, argued that Ms. DeVos's support went well beyond charter schools, to include the more contentious policy of sending public money to private and religious schools.
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More contentious about Ms. Terry's double bill is the determined absence of the kind of guiding directorial hand that you expect these days, not least in Shakespeare.
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The series finale of "Game of Thrones" was the most anticipated television event of the decade, and wound up being far more contentious than people were expecting.
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The expulsion of Cuban diplomats, however, was a more contentious step, given that the United States does not necessarily believe the Cuban government authorized the alleged attacks.
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"That debate is only going to grow more contentious as Netflix commissions more and more films from A-list filmmakers," Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter writes.
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A massive, contentious bill passed the House with relatively little trouble, and an equally massive, even more contentious bill went through key procedural hoops in the Senate.
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If Mr. Trump follows through with his pledge, that could make his encounter with Mr. Xi more contentious than the Chinese side had hoped it would be.
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For developers, this could be a more contentious meeting as Facebook's top virtual reality hardware product remains a walled garden with only certain content permitted in the store.
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One proposed site was the parking lot next to a Roof Depot building; the other, more contentious location, was a plot of land adjacent to an elementary school.
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Regulators in the U.K. are actively encouraging smokers to give up their cigarettes in favor of e-cigarettes, while the debate in the U.S. proves far more contentious.
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One of the more contentious parts of your book is a section where you criticized center-left parties like the Democrats for focusing too much on identity politics.
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Craft was unanimously confirmed by voice vote as US Ambassador to Canada in August 2017, but her nomination to UN ambassador will probably be a bit more contentious.
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If things become more contentious and major policies change, the threat of a trade war is likely to be the main stick used for forcing a favorable deal.
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The surge in attention on Iowa coincides with a more contentious phase of the race, marked by aggressive campaigning and an increased willingness to go on the offensive.
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The back-and-forth between Zuckerberg and the European lawmakers was comparatively more contentious than the hearings earlier this year before the Congress on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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The latest patrol was at least the fifth such patrol under the Trump administration and the first to Scarborough - one of the more contentious features in the region.
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California being California, the ballots will be full of confusing ballot initiatives, one of the more contentious of which is a statewide rent control measure called Proposition 10.
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This was one of the more contentious part of the negotiations, since China did not want to be seen as ceding sovereignty over any of its domestic policies.
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As the Garbh Allt community completed their purchase earlier this year, another, much more contentious deal went through on the island of Ulva - this time largely government funded.
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The pipeline is one of a number of developments that show Beijing and Moscow moving closer together amid more contentious relations with the US under President Donald Trump.
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"There's always this tension between the two in affiliate fee renegotiations and I think those have gradually gotten more contentious because people realize the pie's shrinking," he added.
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But the effort has become far more contentious than expected, as a diverse, vocal and highly opinionated city fights over the legacy it should leave in bronze and stone.
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The Trump administration has released 3 key strategy documents in the last month that reframe America's view of China and may indicate there's an emerging approach that's more contentious.
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The more contentious approach can be seen via the National Security Strategy (NSS), the USTR annual report on China's WTO compliance, and the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy (NDS).
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Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has a far more contentious history with Mr. Putin, despite the "reset" President Obama's administration pursued with Russia during her tenure as secretary of state.
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However, preference for a public plan has the edge over private in each situation:The ensuing parts of healthcare are more contentious to transition to a government-run healthcare plan.
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And there's every reason to think it will be only more contentious and prolonged with the Trump administration, given the president's instincts to thumb his nose at legal orders.
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There is scarcely any oxygen left to discuss the more contentious aspects of Amazon, like its scorn for taxes or its plans to capture much of local government purchasing.
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But, with the Iowa caucus less than a week away, and the primary season poised to take a more contentious turn, those tactics could start to become more tempting.
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But more contentious changes, including publicly revealing the names of lawmakers who have settled claims, may be a tougher ask, since the idea faces some resistance in both parties.
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In one of the more contentious confrontations, City Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn intervened to save the job of Shalonda Montgomery, who worked at a Wendy's in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Players are always looking for an edge, but perhaps none is more contentious and troubling than the edge that performance-enhancing drugs provide — steroids, human growth hormone, blood doping.
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Because of social media and nonstop access to celebrities and influencers, coupled with the ability to have clothing made cheaply overseas, fashion has never been faster, or more contentious.
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But Izuzquiza firmly believes the surge in right-wing populist parties will make such legislation far more contentious in the future: "These parties have a pro-corporate agenda," she says.
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The bloc has taken a more aggressive stance towards non-EU member Switzerland, and made the issue of equivalence - the bloc's approval of different regulatory regimes - more contentious, Dijsselhof said.
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A more contentious issue is the presence in America of Fethullah Gulen, the head of an Islamist movement that was once allied with Mr Erdogan but has become his nemesis.
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Are those parts of the negotiation getting more contentious, or are there more things you're offering that way beyond just the number, beyond just the amount that you're asking for?
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"Now that the inauguration has happened, things have gotten even more contentious between Trump and the intelligence community, which is what our whole season was about crazily enough," Gansa said.
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But while the race lacked the fireworks of some of the more contentious GOP primaries across the country, Rosendale's foes landed some punches that could reverberate in the general election.
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The government's plan to reform the French social and economic system is expected to encompass reduced spending and changes to pension and unemployment programs, which could be even more contentious.
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One of the more contentious areas of Waters' anticipated agenda could be her deploying the chair's subpoena power to step up oversight of banks, regulators and President Donald Trump personally.
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For many young Asian Australians, it can be hard not to internalize the perceived hierarchy, especially when immigration is becoming a more contentious issue ahead of next year's federal election.
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The judge's comments are a "gut punch" to Microsoft, indicating Amazon's challenge to the Pentagon's decision might be more contentious than the company hoped, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said.
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More contentious moments could come if he invokes executive privilege about conversations with the president or claims that information is classified to prevent it from being discussed in public session.
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"But reaching an agreement on the more contentious structural issues remains an uphill battle and it still seems more likely than not that trade tensions will escalate again before long."
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A handful of senators planned to file amendments to the bill to spur legislative action on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and to address other more contentious energy issues.
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This also likely won't be the only Supreme Court nominee from Trump, and future fights may be far more contentious, especially if he's replacing a liberal justice on the bench. Sen.
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That approach would allow the House to quickly approve the final Senate version, rather than forcing the two chambers to thrash out their differences in a lengthy, more contentious open process.
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Craft was unanimously confirmed by voice vote to be the US ambassador to Canada in August 2017, but her nomination to UN ambassador was bound to be a bit more contentious.
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What's happening: The more contentious approach can be seen via the National Security Strategy (NSS), the USTR annual report on China's WTO compliance, and the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy (NDS).
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But at the heart of the debate are more contentious issues, such as creating a post of finance minister and a budget for the euro zone and simplifying EU budget rules.
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TMZ broke the story ... Angelina's lawyer, Laura Wasser, is going to quit because Angelina has been very difficult to work with and is making the divorce way more contentious than necessary.
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Her press secretary, seeking to reduce the uproar, told CNN the debate over mumbo's merits could be an easy substitute for more contentious topics at Thanksgiving tables in the nation's capital.
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As the meetings began Thursday, Democrats commenced with a bit of political parallel play, mocking Mr. Trump and trying hard to tie Republican members of Congress to his more contentious statements.
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It's only likely to become more contentious with the news that special counsel Robert Mueller is expanding his investigation to look at the influence of Middle Eastern money on American politics.
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And if the Oscars keep with the two-decade trend of growing into a bigger, louder, more contentious money pit, I don't know how much longer the joy really can last.
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But Mr. Trump is aware that the confirmation processes for any new nominees are likely to be more contentious in the second half of his term, as he faces re-election.
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Yet such policies still face staunch opposition from gas producers and even other environmentalists reluctant to subsidize a multibillion-dollar industry — making this one of the more contentious climate debates around.
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"In my Senate tenure, I have not seen a more contentious issue than the calling of witnesses either live or videotaped," longtime Senator Arlen Specter later said in a Senate speech.
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"We expect this year's presidential election to be even more contentious than it was in 2016 — which will likely place a damper on retail sales," wrote analysts at Loop Capital Markets.
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Though the two countries remain tightly woven economically, leaders in both are openly talking about a day when the two become less dependent on each other — and, perhaps, more contentious rivals.
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China A wary China watched one of its toughest critics assume the presidency Friday, marking the start of what could be a more contentious bilateral relationship between the world's two largest economies.
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Even more contentious was the preliminary reports recommendation for a single timeline for recalls to be issued, a recommendation that the FDA said in its response would result in "arbitrary" decision-making.
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Now, with high heat already in the region and heavy storms on the horizon, Philadelphia is preparing for a more contentious series of showdowns than many expected even a few weeks ago.
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You could call it a superhero film, but it feels more like a mainstream, re-examination of race in a time where the political debate around it has never been more contentious.
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Mr. de Blasio acknowledged his original approach to the race had been more contentious — a matter of necessity, he said, when the goal was challenging a political party to change its direction.
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But some, including measures that would limit the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or weaken stress tests on some of the nation's largest banks, are likely to be more contentious.
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Once the two-week spending bill is signed, lawmakers will move on to the far more contentious task of passing a longer-term spending bill before December 22, when Thursday's bill expires.
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The case became even more contentious when the prosecutors suddenly dropped their charges against two of the defendants and let the other two plead guilty to lesser crimes, avoiding time in prison.
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But in a possible rush to finish, more contentious social issues, which are often wedged into the spending plan, may be deferred to later in the legislative session, which ends in June.
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He said that some of the more contentious clauses, like the one that suggested FEMA had reviewed and approved the deal, were included by accident, in what he described as "an oops."
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As protests become more frequent but likelier to flounder, they stretch on and on, becoming more contentious, more visible — and more apt to return to the streets when their demands go unmet.
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A 3-week Vatican meeting of bishops will consider environmental and religious issues in the Amazon region in general, but priestly celibacy is one of the more contentious items up for debate.
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His hardball language contrasted with the optimistic cadence of the closing remarks from Kavanaugh, who likely faces an even more contentious day when senators begin to ply him with questions on Wednesday.
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But in practice, making the appointment one more contentious political contest would create a Register who's only really accountable to the lobbyists and special interests that help her get selected and confirmed.
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"One of the things that I know with certainty is that over the next nine months, between now and election day in the U.S., it will become more contentious, not less contentious."
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Top Democrats vowed on Sunday to begin disclosing key confidential details of their investigation into President Donald Trump, signaling the start of a far more contentious phase of the House's impeachment inquiry.
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But the promises in last year's speech, including bringing Democrats and Republicans together behind a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan, have not materialized, while the more contentious policies of his presidency have continued.
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The more contentious elements of these pieces of legislation could be stripped out or bills could have "sunset clauses" inserted, meaning they would need to be revisited later, to speed up their passage.
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Humans are causing the Earth to warm Whether humans are causing warming is more contentious with the American public, even though the science on this is settled -- and has been for some time.
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"These results point to the possibility of a more contentious relationship between the government and the National Assembly than was seen between 2013 and 2016, when the opposition was a minority," she wrote.
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But the fact that President Donald Trump's latest attack on China came about so quickly, with conversations only becoming more contentious in the past week, it likely has caught many companies off guard.
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For Kaine, it was all about getting Pence to answer for his running mate's more contentious statements on, for instance, punishing women who have abortions or allowing Saudi Arabia to amass nuclear weapons.
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That strained relationship grew more contentious after a published leak of hacked emails showed DNC officials seeking to tilt the scales in Clinton's favor during the primary, which resulted in Wasserman Schultz's ouster.
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It is separate from, though related to, the far more contentious Clean Power Plan, which would order a 85033 percent reduction in the entire power sector's carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030.
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GOP leaders are preparing several procedural moves that must be completed on the floor before appointing members to merge the Senate's $21625 billion bipartisan package with the House's more contentious $2900 million bill.
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While their spouses faced more contentious and high-stakes discussions, Trump and May displayed a warm rapport, touring a chapel on the grounds and crafting remembrance poppy pins with the students and Pensioners.
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Even on the more contentious of these issues, such as healthcare and college tuition, there is ample evidence that Democrats are moving to the left, at least in part because of Sanders's advocacy.
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With the short-term spending measure complete, Trump and congressional leaders are now free to move on to the far more contentious task of passing a longer-term spending bill before the 22nd.
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You saw it at the A.G.M.: It was becoming more and more contentious, and the people who ran the club were more and more resentful of having to answer questions from the fans.
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The study also asked students to weigh in on one of the more contentious free speech issues of the past year: professional athletes protesting for racial justice by kneeling during the national anthem.
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Although SALT deductions are one of the more contentious details the GOP will have to duke it out over, every single deduction has a constituency willing to fight to the death for it.
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But it backed down after a backlash; don't be surprised if the event is more contentious than in years past, or if typically neutral artists, like the show's host, Brad Paisley, turn political.
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The Kelly hearing was remarkable for its subdued tone, with Republicans and Democrats alike cordially asking Mr. Kelly about Mr. Trump's more contentious stances, like forcing Muslims to register with the federal government.
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As for the more contentious issue of city control over the subway system, Mr. Johnson hinted that he had a plan, and that it would likely be unveiled within the next two months.
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The moral merits of super-teams aside, there may be no more contentious an area of NBA discourse in which to wade right now than the ranking of the league's top point guards.
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That's partly because the education compromise Congress passed in 2015 largely took the more contentious issues of testing and accountability off the table at the federal level, sending the issue back to the states.
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The move by a cable company to direct customers toward a streaming service demonstrates how negotiations between programmers and distributors are getting more contentious as the number of pay TV subscribers continues to drop.
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Among the more contentious issues were Facebook's insistence on a so-called hamburger menu (the icon with three straight lines) and the inclusion of a link to the main Facebook app within that menu.
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Father Conroy's resignation is all the more contentious in Catholic circles because Mr. Ryan is a Catholic conservative, whereas Father Conroy is a Jesuit, a branch that is viewed by some as more liberal.
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The researchers say there was some disagreement on how to annotate the grammatically incorrect sentences — each went through three levels of review — but they weren't any more contentious than annotations of grammatically correct sentences.
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Since the film was released in 1974, the question of who will get the limited water in the American West, particularly the all-important flow of the Colorado River, has grown even more contentious.
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PROPOSITIONS: There are a total of five ballot measures in New York and New Jersey, none more contentious than Proposal 1 in New York, which offers voters a chance to convene a constitutional convention.
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Indiana's Senate GOP primary is growing even more contentious as the May primary approaches, with all three candidates forced to play defense on stories that threaten to undercut the central themes of their campaigns.
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"It is very slow moving but there are no fireworks," said a Canadian source with knowledge of the talks, adding there had "not been much conversation at all" on the more contentious U.S. proposals.
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Yet by agreeing to ban college betting, both companies may see a boost of goodwill in more contentious legal battlegrounds like New York, where they've ceased operating in hopes the state will legalize the activity.
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Elizabeth Warren, easily the highest-profile candidate of the night and who has released a slate of thorough policy proposals, mostly stayed out of some of the more contentious moments and got her points across.
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It's understandable that Amazon wouldn't want to even tiptoe close to the more contentious parts of electioneering, and anyone wanting information about something Alexa doesn't cover can always look it up online on another device.
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The ever-escalating trade war between the United States and China — which has weighed heavily on global markets amid tanking sentiment and corporations holding off on making key business decisions — has grown even more contentious.
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"Tonight, we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California," he said, before predicting that the race against Clinton was going to quickly get even more contentious.
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Yet by agreeing to ban college betting, both companies may see a boost of goodwill in more contentious legal battlegrounds like New York, where they've ceased operating in hopes the state will legalize the activity.
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"Based on what we observed today, the chat during Twitch's broadcast of the Republican National Convention has been overwhelmingly clean-spirited and cheeky, without dipping into more contentious territory," product marketing manager Brian Petrocelli said.
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The document is long on themes and short on specifics, serving as a potential template to counter some of the more contentious proposals made by Mr. Trump and as a rebuke to the Obama administration.
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During Clinton's trial, lawmakers opted to approve a resolution that tackled the procedural questions first, and only passed a motion dealing with witness testimony once the trial was underway because it was considered more contentious.
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An issue that has become more contentious lately is how much deference a court should give to an interpretation of the law by an administrative agency when Congress gives it the authority to adopt rules.
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Trump said he then favors moving quickly to address even more contentious issues, including a possible pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants that is opposed by many Republicans and many of his supporters.
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While the presidential primary is only getting more contentious, the residents of Pawnee, Indiana, are always upbeat, so it only seemed right to summarize the Indiana primary with some of the best "Parks and Rec" moments.
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In recent years, Gazprom has changed some of its more contentious behavior under pressure from increased competition from liquefied natural gas imports, price arbitration cases brought by western customers and more liquidity on Europe's energy markets.
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"The more it progresses in this more contentious way, the more it leads me to feel the risks are on the downside for the broader economy," Bostic said in remarks at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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There are reasons to expect this debate to be significantly more contentious than the ones that proceeded it, but nothing to suggest that it will be as contentious as any of the boxing matches in 2008.
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Policymakers aim to focus the debate on ways to assist U.S. efforts to boost infrastructure investment, an area where an agreement may be more easily reached than other more contentious issues like trade, the sources said.
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One of the more contentious changes to the Overwatch hero lineup, D.Va's survivability has been reduced, making her less effective as a damage sponge now that 200 points of her health bar no longer regenerate automatically.
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It will be more contentious as there is much less unanimity among the members regarding the details of individual tax reform, having to deal with things such as child care credits and the mortgage interest deduction.
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In recent years, Gazprom has changed some of its more contentious behaviour under pressure from increased competition from liquefied natural gas imports, price arbitration cases brought by western customers and more liquidity on Europe's energy markets.
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Wedged somewhere in between the interview's more contentious answers, Banks drops a relatively innocuous story about an appearance that he made on The Mike Douglas Show with one of his more famous pupils: Sir Roger Moore.
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It was the first time Boeing had met directly with airline pilots since the crash in Ethiopia, and followed a round of more contentious meetings between Boeing and pilots after the Lion Air crash last year.
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NBC has not released a transcript of Ms. Kelly's interview, leading some to speculate that her interrogation of Mr. Jones over his more contentious views — for instance, that Sandy Hook was a hoax and the Sept.
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Sessions's already-difficult path to confirmation was made more contentious by Trump's firing Monday night of acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who deemed the president's order illegal and said she would not have Justice attorneys defend it.
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The donation to the Trump campaign proved much more contentious in Silicon Valley than the revelation in May that Mr. Thiel had secretly funded a lawsuit to kill Gawker, which revealed in 2007 that he was gay.
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Meanwhile, Silman argues that Ripa was treated poorly, and that it's sexist to insist that Ripa is being a diva when plenty of men have had television show meltdowns (see: Charlie Sheen) that were far more contentious.
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At the council meeting, similar to what happened at Manhattan Beach, there was a more contentious and pressing issue at hand: The council was debating whether to approve a new commercial development, along with a Hyatt hotel.
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The official could not answer questions about how the order might relate to some of the more contentious areas of discussion on college campuses in recent years, such as the movement to boycott or divest from Israel.
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Mr. Cobb had argued that cooperating with the investigations would bring them to a swift conclusion, but the shake-up indicates that the president is bracing for a longer and more contentious battle on multiple legal fronts.
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But the deal would not cover some of the more contentious issues between India and the United States, like India's barriers to American technology firms, and how both countries should go about countering security threats from China.
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The Alabama senator's already difficult path to confirmation was made more contentious by Trump's firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who deemed the president's order illegal and said she would not have Justice attorneys defend it.
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But since taking office last month, President Trump has signaled that matters could get even more contentious, as his administration has vowed to project more military might in Asia and to impose high tariffs on Chinese goods.
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After spending almost three hours behind closed doors taking questions from committee members, Stone again denied accusations that he had engaged in improper conduct during the 2016 campaign but was much more contentious than in the rambling statement.
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They're going to be a little bit more contentious about things for sure, but across history I think we see that those who take chances in some areas tend to encounter more success for society as a whole.
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The boiler rule, dubbed boiler MACT for "maximum achievable control technology," has been one of the more contentious air pollution rules of the Obama administration, and congressional Republicans have tried weakening it in various ways with no success.
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Once that is done, Trump said, he favors moving quickly to address even more contentious issues, including a possible pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants that is opposed by many Republicans and many of his supporters.
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By starting with housing, the legislators appear to be trying to make inroads with a broad political base and avoid some of the more contentious aspects of the Green New Deal, like the transition away from fossil fuels.
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However, the more contentious part of the lawsuit involves the three design patents (1, 2, 3) in question, which describe a device with a black front, rounded rectangular corners, similarly curved surrounding bezels, and a colorful grid of icons.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers and activists are protesting legislative efforts in two south Indian states that would make it easier to acquire land for infrastructure projects, as the battle for scarce land in the country becomes more contentious.
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Economists said the move could temper the self-styled populist's more contentious policies, even if it was also a clever ploy to return to power after struggling to win over the more moderate wing of the broad Peronist opposition.
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How Amazon and other tech giants use their market power to gain an unfair advantage over smaller competitors is poised to become a more contentious issue, and one of the key discussion points for the presidential election next year.
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The leaders, including German host Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and many others, were to discuss issues like fighting international terrorism, but also tackle more contentious topics like climate change and international trade.
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Since then, the U.S., Canada and Mexico have held seven rounds of negotiations, tackling first the low-hanging fruit like e-commerce, which had been excluded from the original pact, and leaving the more contentious issues until the end.
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When the Obama administration directed public schools on Friday to accommodate transgender students by ensuring that they may use school bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice, the latest battle in the nation's culture wars became even more contentious.
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While several of his more contentious policies have been blocked or held up in lower courts, the justices have upheld Trump's so-called Muslim travel ban and the transgender military ban, often citing the authority of the executive branch.
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"The negotiations are already more contentious and much more complex than last year due to the new categories of support," Maxwell, now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said in an email to Military Times.
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More contentious is the company's demand that its 19,000 German workers give up a 4.3 percent pay rise negotiated nationally by the IG Metall union before it commits to a first production investment at Eisenach, in central Thuringia state.
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The competing messages, coming amid new polls that show a sharp increase in public support for impeachment, signaled the high stakes of trying to control the narrative as the House begins a far more contentious phase of its inquiry.
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Vice President Mike Pence had to cast a tie-breaking vote, bringing it to 51–50 in favor of approving DeVos, signaling the end to one of the more contentious fights over one of Trump's Cabinet appointees, Politico reports.
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Economists said the move could temper the self-styled populist's more contentious policies, even as many saw it as a clever ploy to return to power after struggling to win over the more moderate wing of the broad Peronist opposition.
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The European court has already backed the ECB's more contentious emergency bond purchase scheme known as Outright Monetary Transactions or OMT with only relatively minor limitations, suggesting that the challenge - lodged by several academics and politicians - may face an uphill battle.
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How Amazon and other tech giants use their market power to gain an unfair advantage over smaller competitors is poised to become a more contentious issue going forward, and one of the key discussion points for the presidential election next year.
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Sirot and others said the strategy could work, but they also warned that with Macron planning to press ahead over the next year with even more contentious legislation, he may have won an early battle but not yet the war.
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If one accepts President Harry S. Truman's rationale that the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to force Japan's surrender and end the war, the moral calculus for dropping a second bomb on a civilian population three days later is more contentious.
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Sudan's pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council signed a document early Wednesday that outlines a power-sharing deal, but the two sides are still at work on a more contentious constitutional agreement that would specify the division of powers.
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In recent years, as Supreme Court nomination fights have become more contentious, senators who represent states that the other party's presidential nominee carried in the previous election have become the most likely to break with their own party to support confirmations.
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But it made reference to Lopez Obrador's candidacy and some of his more contentious proposals, including threats to walk back the government's opening of the oil and gas sector to private investment, and to scrap a 2012-13 education reform.
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AMLO is expected to take the presidential oath of office in December and officially begin the task of tackling a raft of volatile issues that have become ever more contentious and soured US-Mexico relations since Trump won the presidency.
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A prolific commenter on Twitter, where he has about 270,000 followers, Mr. Tamogami regularly endorses the more contentious national security policies advocated by Shinzo Abe, Japan's conservative prime minister, like changing the antiwar Constitution to remove restrictions on the military.
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Bloomberg LP has faced nearly 40 employment lawsuits from 64 people since 1996As he plots his presidential campaign, Bloomberg has sought to distance himself from the more contentious aspects of his nearly five-decade career as an entrepreneur and politician.
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Douthat: Yes, and on the Republican side, precisely because of their likely tedium and semi-assured outcome, the hearings probably won't be as politically useful (in a base-galvanizing way) to Trump as a more contentious nomination might have been.
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Schale praised the senator (who once famously went to space) for sticking to Florida-specific issues, like offshore drilling and Medicare for the state's more elderly population, while mostly avoiding the high-profile spats in Washington on more contentious matters.
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Pervasive monitoring by video cameras on street corners and lampposts, capturing your face and tracking your movements, then cross-referencing that information with a central database, means that garments like the hoodie (or the burqa) may become even more contentious.
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BOISE, Idaho — During a recent mayoral debate at a Boise homeless shelter, after disposing of icebreakers like the candidates' favorite Metallica album, the moderator turned to something more contentious: a decade-old lawsuit, now a step away from the Supreme Court.
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The images elicited a far more contentious response from hawkish Republicans, who do not necessarily share Mr. Trump's views on China trade policy but see Beijing's actions in the South China Sea as an aggressive challenge to the United States.
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Kirsten Westphal, an energy analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, likens Nord Stream 22 to an "onion" — you peel away layer after layer of controversy only to discover that the next one is more contentious still.
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Momentum for reform seemed promising heading into August, but as we move deeper into the fall, there is concern that more contentious issues could drown out efforts to get Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) reauthorization over the finish line.
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The second bill would provide short-term funding for the more contentious Department of Homeland Security through February 8, separating the conflict over the border wall from the other outstanding government funding bills and kicking this fight a bit further down the road.
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"It's fair to say he's had a more contentious relationship with the court than any president I can remember, at least since Nixon," said Curt Levey, a veteran of judicial nomination battles and executive director of the FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative advocacy group.
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Tillerson's hearing could be one of the more contentious sessions since Trump wants to warm up relations with Russia despite its use of cyber hacking, according to U.S. intelligence, to try to tilt the U.S. election for Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Later that the day Hadid was photographed at a protest that took place outside the U.S. Embassy in London in response to President Donald Trump declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, a move that makes relations between Israelis and Palestinians more contentious.
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Now, negotiators will begin to weigh into more contentious issues such as rules of origin - how much of a product's components must originate from within North America - labor standards aimed at increasing Mexican wages and mechanisms for resolving trade and investment disputes.
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Precisely because work-places are multi-faith arenas where people aren't expected to leave their religious affiliations behind, employment disputes caused by inter-religious exchanges (from debates to arguments to banter or worse) at work are likely to grow more and more contentious.
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What's often termed the "food stamp cutoff" was one of the more contentious measures added by Republicans to Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform bill—at the time, one Democratic lawmaker called it the "most mean-spirited amendment" he had seen in 22 years.
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The ads, which come in both 60-second and 30-second versions, rifle through some of Mr. Trump's more contentious platforms, then cuts in with either news reports or video clips of members of the Republican House either directly or tangentially offering support.
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" As a political operative, the article stated that Graves and Biden have learned that in addition to church politics, union politics, and regular politics, "there's a fourth type of politics—cancer politics—and it can be even more contentious than the rest.
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That much is evident from the first ten seconds of her blazing new EP Life is Cheap, Death is Free, which opens with the lyrics "With a mouth full of shit and a stolen tongue" and only gets more contentious from there.
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Several ASEAN diplomats said that among the members who pushed for a communique that retained the more contentious elements was Vietnam, which has competing claims with China over the Paracel and Spratly archipelago and has had several spats with Beijing over energy concessions.
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The impending release of the 400-page report is expected to shed light on some of the more contentious episodes of Trump's election bid and presidency, including his firing of FBI head James Comey in 2017 and his campaign's contacts with Russians.
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Today, with two federal judges having ruled against Mr. Trump's ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world (see Adam Liptak's article on the front page), it is clear that the debate over American immigration policy will only grow more contentious.
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The lack of resolution has been discouraging, given that many analysts believe that the administration is tackling only the easiest issues in its Phase 1 deal, and leaving more contentious topics, like the subsidies that China gives to its industry, for later talks.
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"There are few more contentious issues currently than the status of workers operating on platform-type business models," said David Weil, the administrator who issued the guidance under President Barack Obama and is now dean of the Heller School at Brandeis University.
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There is perhaps no controversy in the investing world more contentious than active versus passive equity investment management — whether it's better to have an equity portfolio that's actively managed or one that passively gets the returns of market indexes or selected groups of stocks.
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One of the more contentious proposals has to do with resellers, Lifeline-specific companies that don't own their own infrastructure, but instead lease capacity from major telecoms providers like AT&T and Sprint in order to resell it at the subsidized rate through Lifeline.
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In a wave of media labor organizing over the last year, companies including the New Yorker and New York magazine voluntarily recognized employee unions, while other efforts, such as the Los Angeles Times employees' successful National Labor Relations Board election, have been more contentious.
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That level has become a line in the sand for markets around the world, and if broken, it could trigger a negative reaction in risk markets globally, as investors move to price in a bigger economic impact from a longer, more contentious trade war.
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More contentious proposals, such as raising the minimum age for buying guns to 21, or requiring background checks for guns bought at gun shows or on the internet, will be studied by a commission to be led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the officials said.
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What is beyond doubt is that the battle will push the parties farther apart, ensuring that an already rancorous election year becomes even more contentious as Republicans and Democrats alike try to rally their voters by portraying the opposition's approach to the nomination as illegitimate.
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And in a more contentious incident, on Sunday police in Houston shot 38-year-old Alva Braziel, who they claim refused to drop a gun and instead lowered it in their direction (activists claim that he had his hands up when he was shot).
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Meeting much of the demand for new buildings in countries with booming populations, wood significantly reduces the amount of carbon we need to scrub from the atmosphere using more contentious technologies, and also raises the economic value of forest products to encourage further afforestation.
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The lighthearted comments from Graham, a South Carolina Republican and frequent critic of the President who unsuccessfully ran against him in the 2016 presidential primaries, contrasted sharply with some of the more contentious moments that have defined the long and complicated relationship between the two.
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The more contentious area of his agenda would be continuing Republican efforts to "pick away at Dodd-Frank's overreaching rules," as he refers to banking regulations imposed after the financial crash a decade ago, and placing additional restrictions on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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Early counters, chain wrestling, and trades of stiff forearms soon turned more contentious—the action spilled to the floor, Okada drove Omega into the ringside barricade but then ate a V-trigger knee while attempting a running cross-body, and things picked up quickly.
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But British advisers are also leaning on a more contentious theory: that exposing a large proportion of the population to the coronavirus could help people develop immunity, and put Britain in a better position to defend itself against the virus roaring back next winter.
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One bill written by a bipartisan group of senators calling itself the Common Sense Coalition would also have given Mr. Trump money for his much-ballyhooed wall along the Mexican border, though over a 10-year period, while putting off more contentious questions about immigration.
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Mr. Biden omitted more contentious components of the legislation: authorizing federal funding for prison construction and more police officers; incentivizing states to establish "truth in sentencing" guidelines; increasing the number of federal crimes subject to the death penalty; and enacting a federal "three strikes" provision.
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As Mr. Trump has tempered some of his more contentious campaign vows, including saying he would not seek to jail Hillary Clinton, his promise to take a tougher stance toward unauthorized immigrants is one his base of supporters is likely to demand that he keep.
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Gold fell on Wednesday, retreating from a two-week high hit earlier in the session, after the United States started issuing licenses for some companies to supply goods to Chinese firm Huawei, rekindling hopes for trade negotiations that had shown signs of turning more contentious.
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But the more contentious debate continues to be about the proposal to put the Davis Cup final at a neutral venue chosen far in advance, to help with revenue and promotion, instead of allowing one of the two finalists to stage it on short notice.
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Familia's case, for which Monday's meeting was the latest attempt by the league and the players' union to reach a mutually acceptable punishment, has been more contentious than previous cases resolved under baseball's domestic violence policy, according to the person familiar with the case.
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More contentious proposals, such as raising the minimum age for buying guns to 21 from 18, or requiring background checks for guns bought at gun shows or on the internet, will be studied by a commission headed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the officials said.
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A science teacher at a community college — whose deeply religious students sometimes express doubts about the trustworthiness of science that contradicts biblical teachings — speaks to his class about the positives of scientific discovery (electricity) in order to ease into more contentious subjects (global warming).
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The bottom line: Issue and advocacy ads have been growing as a category for many publishers and advertising companies, including sports leagues, as the hyper-political environment in Washington becomes more contentious, forcing companies to take a stand on more issues than they have in the past.
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Save for a passing mention of 4chan and some description of Hovater's more contentious Facebook posts, the Times piece does little to describe the online ecosystem that has helped white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the alt-right organize, amplify its message, and thrive in recent years.
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That level has become a line in the sand for markets around the world, and if broken, some strategists say it could trigger a negative reaction in risk markets globally, as investors move to price in a bigger impact from a longer, more contentious trade war.
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Diplomats and security experts in contact with Chinese military strategists say Beijing's moves to arm and expand its long-established holdings in the Paracels will likely be replicated on its man-made islands in the more contentious Spratly archipelago, some 500 kms (300 miles) further south.
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Once the party of compassionate conservatism under President George W. Bush and a party that supported a massive immigration bill under President Ronald Reagan, members admit immigration has grown more and more contentious and less and less a topic they want to debate openly on the floor.
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John Manley, the head of the Business Council of Canada, which represents the country's largest companies, said CETA should not be confused with a trade deal being negotiated between the EU and the United States, the larger and even more contentious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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"It's a remarkably aggressive and unusually angry filing from the solicitor general, and, among other things, could turn a small, technical dispute into one of the more contentious cases the court considers this term," said CNN legal analyst and University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck.
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Amid the big egos and seemingly intractable conflicts, the host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, faces the daunting task of steering leaders toward a consensus on trade, climate and migration — all issues that have become more contentious since Trump entered the White House half a year ago.
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For all Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s efforts to focus his campaign on the economy and the middle class, he has been unable to escape his past views on more contentious subjects — particularly abortion, which has become one of the defining issues of the 2020 race.
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There is no justification for any white or white-presenting Latinx person to continue dropping the N-word knowing how hurtful it still is to Afro-Latinx and black peers, among whom a wider and arguably more contentious debate over its use as colloquial reclamation remains.
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The deal is an informal one, and so far has not been committed to writing, but it seems to give both parties what they want while sidestepping the more contentious issue of sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal, the contested fishing grounds claimed by both China and the Philippines.
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And none of them are things that Democrats are asking for, or that Republicans would oppose; the changes to family-based immigration are lifted from Cotton's RAISE Act, but the RAISE Act's changes to employment-based immigration — which are more contentious among Republicans — are left out.
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Some members of the Supreme Court might have wished to burnish their liberal credentials, before turning to more contentious matters like the government's brief to expand its troubled universal-identification system, or to allow a Hindu group to build a temple on the site of a razed mosque.
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But they quickly moved on to more contentious issues, with Mr. Obama pressing Mr. Xi on China's construction of military facilities in the South China Sea, actions that a White House official said belied a pledge the Chinese president had made last fall not to militarize those waters.
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"The direct economic impact on Japanese producers may be limited — only 2 percent of Japan's steel exports go to the U.S. — but Tokyo's failure to convince Washington to spare it from the new measures could be a sign of a more contentious turn in the bilateral relationship," he said.
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The leaders will have a full agenda as they hash out some of the more contentious issues in bilateral relations: Mr. Trump's claims about China's unfair trade practices; curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions; and American concerns about Chinese military ambitions in the South China Sea, among other matters.
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The ruling now sends the case - brought by several individuals, including academics and politicians - to a court which has already backed the ECB's more contentious emergency bond purchase scheme known as Outright Monetary Transactions or OMT with only relatively minor limitations, suggesting an uphill battle for the challenge.
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The plan is to fund 523 percent of the government — or pass nine of the 12 appropriations bills that fully make up the government's budget — and then pass stop-gap funding measures to push negotiations over the more contentious funding battles, like over Trump's border wall, until after the midterm elections.
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A third reason was that George W., now happily retired to paint bad pictures and grow trees on his ranch, has become even more contentious during the primary contest, as his legacy, of military fiasco, lavish spending and a failed stab at immigration reform, has come under attack from Jeb's rivals.
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Google is getting it from both sides of the ever more contentious debate over gender inequity in Silicon Valley — on one side for taking decisive action against what the search giant deemed sexist language by a staffer and on the other for allegations that it pays women less than men.
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The acquisition also joins the growing roster of high-profile art — and now architecture — arriving at Crystal Bridges through the long reach of Walmart, such as a $44-million Georgia O'Keeffe purchased last year, or more contentious deals like the shared ownership of Fisk University's Stieglitz Collection brokered in 2013.
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This updated version was intended to eliminate some of the more contentious aspects of the song's original lyrics, with Legend offering to call Clarkson a car instead of persuading her to stay (no one show him this report), and at one point telling her that it's her body, her choice.
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But as the race to claim the Iron Throne has become more and more contentious, the gray areas have definitely started to expand, as with the Lannisters and wily Tyrells turning on each other, or the sinister Faith Militant infecting King's Landing with a vicious agenda cloaked in religious text.
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Mueller and his team have said nearly nothing in the two years since he was appointed special counsel, and the seven hours of testimony represented the first time in six years since Mueller was under the bright lights of a congressional hearing, a far more contentious setting than he had seen previously.
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Some Syrian Arab insurgents have already been caught on video apparently abusing Kurdish militia members, and as the operation becomes more contentious, rebels who had sought to increase their legitimacy as a Syrian force risk reinforcing criticism that they are Turkish and American proxies at best, de facto allies of ISIS at worst.
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The future of the country after the program ends is becoming a more contentious issue by the day — not only because the exit date, August 20, is fast-approaching, but mostly because there is an election due at some point before October 2019 and the coming months will be critical to attract voters.
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"... Last week, we had a hearing on a NASA nominee that was as contentious as any nomination hearing this committee has had, and far more contentious than has been the case historically for a NASA administrator," Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who flew to space aboard a NASA space shuttle, said during his opening remarks.
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As mayor, Mr. Giuliani was widely credited with helping to make New York City safer and he sought to revive those memories on Monday night, even as he avoided the more contentious parts of his legacy having to do with racial tensions that critics contend were exacerbated by both his policies and his tone.
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But a political career that began in 1999 with election to the Overland Park City Council — where Mr. Kobach debated the less-than-partisan rudiments of traffic lights, crosswalks and parking lots — quickly pivoted to the more contentious questions of who should be allowed to enter the country and how election systems should be managed.
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"They changed the topic on me when I was sitting in the chair with the earpiece in" McIntosh and Neffinger also warned Democrats to be prepared for certain dirty tactics, including inconveniently timed technical malfunctions or producers changing the topic at the last-minute from something they agreed to discuss in advance to a more contentious and biased topic.
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What's likely to be more contentious is how Mueller determined Trump or his associates had no direct connection to the hack of Democratic email systems, given the alarming degree of contact campaign associates had with Russian actors, the candidate's efforts to secure a Trump Tower Moscow deal, and how Trump himself challenged Russia to hack Clinton.
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Now he will have a chance to speak for himself, spotlighting his academic pedigree — he has undergraduate and law degrees from Yale — and addressing questions not only about his judicial record, but also the more contentious aspects of his résumé, including his days working for Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel who investigated former President Bill Clinton.
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This is a renewal of Trump's effort to overhaul legal immigration by cutting family-based immigration and focusing instead on the "merit-based" immigrants Trump does hypothetically want to allow to settle in the US. An administration official said Tuesday that this was a "proposal we can unite Republicans around" before discussing more contentious parts of the issue.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas), in one of the more contentious points of the hearing, grilled Zuckerberg over whether the company censored conservative speech.
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"These kind of announcements are very positive for people who are thinking about divorcing and also for people who are going through divorces and having a much more contentious adversarial experience," said Lauren Behrman, a therapist and the author of the book Loving Your Children More Than You Hate Each Other: Powerful Tools for Navigating a High-Conflict Divorce.
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With Mr. Sanders and Mr. Buttigieg vying for the lead in polls of New Hampshire voters, and Mr. Biden under growing pressure to revive his campaign after his fourth-place finish in Iowa, the crossfire signaled that the Democratic contest had reached a new, more contentious phase after the candidates spent much of the last year aiming their criticism at President Trump.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.), shortly before the vote, accused Haspel and the agency of trying to hide the more contentious aspects of Haspel's career.
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Charming though Patsy can be, in the wise and winning performance of Verna Pierce, with an unruly halo of gray hair and a flowery multipurpose apron (the well-observed costumes are by Alison Hublard Hershman), she also has a more contentious side, revealed in her scorn for Lucy's live-in boyfriend, Javier, and for the leader of the local bocce club, Sal.
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The result is a book that gives us a portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius — a sort of visionary C.E.O. whose magnanimity, wisdom, humor and shrewd political instincts helped him to hold together a contentious cabinet and even more contentious coalition of Republicans, moderate Democrats and border-state Unionists, and thereby wage a successful war to preserve the Union and emancipate the slaves.
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That means Congress can 1) pass the appropriations bills, likely in an omnibus, which just crams together 11 appropriations bills into one spending package; 2) pass a "continuing resolution" (CR), which would fund the government at its current levels, basically buying more time to negotiate the actual appropriations bills (this is what Congress has done since last October); or 3) pass a "CRomnibus," which is a combination of the two, extending the deadline on certain more contentious appropriations — like for the Department of Homeland Security — and passing a spending bill on the rest.
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Nothing exacerbates the political friction between liberals and conservatives like a presidential election, and this year's campaign between Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE is turning more contentious by the day.
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As Golshan and Scott have noted, they have a couple different options at their disposal: [They] can 1) pass the appropriations bills, likely in an minibus, which just crams together [7] appropriations bills into one spending package; 2) pass a "continuing resolution" (CR), which would fund the government at its current levels, basically buying more time to negotiate the actual appropriations bills; or 3) pass a "CRomnibus," which is a combination of the two, extending the deadline on certain more contentious appropriations — like for the Department of Homeland Security — and passing a spending bill on the rest.
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It could 1) pass the appropriations bills, likely in an omnibus, which just crams together 20173 appropriations bills into one spending package; 2) pass a "continuing resolution," or CR, which would fund the government at its current levels, basically buying more time to negotiate the actual appropriations bills (this is what Congress did in December 2016, pushing the deadline to April 28); or 3) pass a "CRomnibus," which is combination of the two, extending the deadline on certain more contentious appropriations — like for the Department of Homeland Security — in addition to passing a spending bill on the rest.
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In a 2007 interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Wiltse, also the author of Contested Waters, a book about the history of controversy surrounding America's public pools, provided an interesting piece of insight into the anxiety around intimate contact with black people, which he said made resistance to integrating swimming pools even more contentious than integrating schools in some cases: And so the concern among white swimmers and public officials that if blacks and whites swam together at these resort pools in which the culture was highly sexualized, that black men would assault white women with romantic advances, that they would try to make physical contact with them, and that this was unacceptable to most northern whites … … There was a court case that emerged added an attempt by the local NAACP to desegregate the municipal pools in Baltimore.
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