Sentences with phrase «bones of contention in»

One of the biggest bones of contention in recent years has been the way credit scores are figured.

What form that backup takes has become a major bone of contention in regulatory circles.

This claim is the deepest bone of contention in Luther's response to the papal bull against him that same year.

Thanks so much for the link back — bootcut still seems to be a bone of contention in the mom world.

Not only does this become an early bone of contention in the power struggle between Harry and Paul, it also gives Swinton an extended opportunity to indulge in the graceful, expressive gesturing of the silent - movie actor, or, perhaps more appropriately, contemporary dance.

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Household debt has been a major bone of contention in the ongoing saga of Canadian housing prices.

That's a big bone of contention in health insurance programs generally, not just travel, but it certainly applies to travel.

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Canada's dairy market is protected by high tariffs and has been a key bone of contention, but experts expect only slight concessions from Ottawa in NAFTA talks.

The Oil Crescent Area has been in the hands of Haftar's LNA since 2016 and is a bone of contention for Libya's main political parties.

With both approaching the final year of their current deals with Arsenal, talks about signing extensions are ongoing and going by the Arsenal transfer rumours in the football media it is the wages of the two that are the main bone of contention.

My only bone of contention is in the first quote: a football field is not four acres, I'm almost positive.

In some cases, flex time can become a bone of contention among coworkers, with other employees feeling that they have to pick up the slack for the moms among them.

«It (the driving range) has been a bone of contention with many people in the park district.

Judy also doesn't judge me when I'm in the about 15 items or less aisle with 16 or 17 items because the «about» clearly give you some leeway, which can be a bone of contention for some of the stick - up - their - butt cashiers who have been around since the stringent 10 items or less days.

That's pretty serious and has long been a bone of contention with lawmakers in general and Silver specifically.

O'Donnell also confirmed that the Advisory Committee on Ministerial Appointments, which had been the bone of contention up to the beginning of November 2005, was in fact voluntary.

The recognition of the IDC has been a bone of contention between the Senate Democrats and Republicans ever since the four, led by Sen. Jeff Klein, bolted their conference to form their own entity — a move intended as a «no confidence» sign in Senate Minority Leader John Sampson.

The per diem is a bone of contention because in the Capital Region Democrats have accused Republicans of taking it while being within commuting distance.

The rise in university tuition fees and the speed and depth of cuts to public spending are particular bones of contention.

The bone of contention was the party's governorship primary in Ondo State, which produced Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu as the candidate for the November 26 governorship election in the state.

Both Rockland and Orange receive back less in services than their residents and commuters pay to the MTA, a major bone of contention to their leaders.

But when in the early 1960s the German chemist Kurt Zosel hit on a novel way of removing caffeine from coffee beans, he could not have foreseen how the same technique would become the basis of a method for destroying toxic waste, the inspiration for ways of making industrially important chemicals without con - ventional, toxic solvents, and a bone of contention for real ale aficionados.

The issue, politically sensitive for many nations, was a bone of contention for the United States and China at U.N. climate talks last year in Cancun, Mexico, although negotiators eventually agreed to develop a global monitoring system.

You've created something awesome out of something that was always a «bone of contention»; trying to get the tree standing straight in one of those contraption always brought a bit of «Scrooge» to the table.....

The nature of the violence in the Home Alone series has been a bone of contention for some time.

A juicy exclusive by Kris Tapley over at In Contention pointing out this year's WGA drop - offs - Beasts of the Southern Wild, Middle of Nowhere, Amour, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Rust and Bone and more.

And as we push forward past the fests and into the thick of it, I figured the best idea would be a broad assessment of the Academy's chosen best through the years, a bone of contention for a great many, as you read in this space and in the comments section year in and year out.

A major bone of contention finds Lady Bird and her mom arguing about the young woman's desire to go to a college in New York as she is sick of living in the suburbs and especially hard on their location on the other side of the tracks in Sacramento.

There is the intimate scene between Jody Foster and a bone - chillingly tender Harvey Keitel set in the pimp's apartment, which was a point of contention between the director and the writer.

In some districts it fizzled and in other districts it continues to be a bone of contentioIn some districts it fizzled and in other districts it continues to be a bone of contentioin other districts it continues to be a bone of contention.

The use of standardized tests in particular has been a bone of contention around the country: In Chicago, teachers went on strike last year to protest how much the exams counted in their evaluationin particular has been a bone of contention around the country: In Chicago, teachers went on strike last year to protest how much the exams counted in their evaluationIn Chicago, teachers went on strike last year to protest how much the exams counted in their evaluationin their evaluations.

Among the bones of contention: The role of testing in evaluations, the strength of job security for teachers and the number of kids in a class.

That bone of contention — the gearbox — remains a six - speed, dual - clutch paddleshift affair, but Renault has revised it to deliver 50 per cent quicker shifts in its most exuberant Race mode.

The only bone of contention may be the level of service drivers could receive at a dealership, as the Driver Power survey also highlighted that BMW dealer satisfaction was in the bottom half of the rankings.

Sure, it's plain, but it has to be in order to be compatible across platforms, and THAT, is the biggest consumer bone of contention.

The first bone of contention the plaintiffs have is that the company offered the «microscopically low - yielding» Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund, rather than a stable value fund that would have provided better returns while preserving capital and liquidity without any greater increase in risk compared to money market investments.

In some cases, flex time can become a bone of contention among coworkers, with other employees feeling that they have to pick up the slack for the moms among them.

Merrick Pet Care states on its website and in its consumer outreach that its products contain no ingredients from China, an issue that has remained a bone of contention with pet owners.

Grains are another bone of contention for many, and cats are obligate carnivores, thus not requiring large quantities of grain in their diets, but some grains in foods are good sources of readily available carbohydrates for your pet giving her rapid energy.

The tiny area still remained a bone of contention between England and Spain after the era of piracy, and wars and politics in Europe were to have far reaching effects on the West Indian colonies as well as Belize.

Judging, is, in fact the main bone of contention, part of a long - running thread that dates back to the Tate's decision to appoint Observer journalist Lynn Barber to the panel late last year.

Seminal articles published in Artforum magazine are reproduced: «The Frozen Gesture» by Robert Pincus - Witten (November 1974) and «Bone of Contention» by Richard Meyer (November 2004).

The biggest bone of contention isn't a few tenths of a degree C more or less warming in the northern hemisphere over land in the past 100 years.

The main bone of contention was the application of the Liberalisation Agreement to the territory of Western Sahara, a non-self-governing territory to be decolonised in accordance with the principle of self - determination, but which is considered by Morocco to be an integral part of its sovereign territory and is largely under Morocco's effective control.

If custody of a pet goldfish is a major bone of contention, you can bring it up in mediation.

If religion is a bone of contention between you and your spouse, it is not enough to say in your parenting agreement that: «The parties agree that the child will be raised in the (fill in the blank) religion.»

The next «Three Amigos» trade summit is scheduled for Nov. 17 in Mexico City, but agreement on the remaining «bones of contention» will likely carry over into next year, Tolliver says.

The weather is a constant source of conversation in Canada and a bone of contention.