This has been an important and contentious question in philosophy.

In other words, the apparently contentious questions are not scientific ones.

And perhaps the most contentious question of all: light roast or dark?

This situation has led to the often contentious question on the proportion of white people.

It leaves unanswered a variety of contentious questions: How many jobs will be lost?

That contentious question must wait on historians and the tranquillity of a later day.

This is one of the more philosophical and contentious questions facing modern physics.

"The system before asked essentially one contentious question: Are you eligible for shelter or not?"

These have the advantage of avoiding the more contentious questions of social cost.

He must also stay on top of the contentious question of short-range nuclear weapons.

Contentious questions remain over whether any such trials will meet international standards of fairness and legal rigor.

This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter.

The document leaves unresolved the contentious question of the date on which the government will take over the pilots' pension plan.

Its "great strength is its insistence that some of our most contentious questions have answers.

The bipartisan endorsement meant that some contentious questions, like approaches to reducing the Federal budget deficit, are left unanswered.

Then there were less contentious questions.

The study was careful not to draw conclusions about the contentious question of human victims of the chemical spraying.

More time was nearly wasted on the contentious question of just where on exactly which continent Saudade should be founded.

But in drafting the legislation, the lawmakers steered clear of the more difficult and contentious question of sauce.

Walls does not make the rules for the B.C.S., but he discussed several contentious questions.

The most contentious questions at Berkeley have had to do with admissions: Who gets the sought-after acceptances?

To what extent the Constitution can be invoked directly to challenge the validity of a contractual provision between private parties is a contentious question.

First, the contentious questions today are small potatoes compared with those of the recent past, like arms control and the very survival of the Russian reformers.

The centerpiece of the accords, signed last week, is the decision to delay the contentious question of Chechen independence for up to five years.

The issue has thrown politics into turmoil, particularly over the contentious question of handing over prominent people indicted on war crimes charges.