Sentences with phrase «early bone of contention»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

End result: early users of the tablet are an unhappy lot with a poor battery life being one major bone of contention apart from a poor build quality.