Sentences with phrase «not contentious»

Even if the hard fork was not contentious, SegWit2x opponents would consider it rushed.

Evidence on an application is given by way of affidavit, and the requirements for same are fairly stringent in that evidence based on «information and belief» can only be relied on with respect to facts that are not contentious.

The extent to which the Applicant had a disability within the meaning of the Code was not a contentious issue in Pritchard.

These are not contentious issues any more than it is contentious whether or not the earth is more than 6000 years old.

This is not a contentious question, rather simply one to educate myself.

Also, drought east of the Mississippi is not a contentious issue really.

Most attention on climate science is focused on the new and the provocative, while the picture of growing risk from rising levels of greenhouse gases is best delineated by decades of work that is old and not contentious.

Charter schools often have an awkward, if not contentious, relationship with their local districts.

They suggest that although the two often had disagreements, their relationship was largely conciliatory, not contentious as depicted in the film.

Another insider said the breakaway Dems won't help control the agenda like they did the past two years, but they do expect to be able to get some bills to the floor — though not contentious ones like the public financing of campaigns that are being pushed by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Lawmakers on Monday passed extender resolutions to keep the government running through the end of May, but also to fund pretty much all of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program — not to mention a $ 2.5 billion water infrastructure package that pretty much all sides want — but not contentious issues like education / charter school funding, raise the age and 421 - a.

Good prenatal care is an obvious (and not contentious) example for # 1.

Head covering is not a contentious subject, those who believe it is are wrong.

Head covering for example is not a contentious subject but there are those that insist it is with the result that very few women bother with it any more.

What I do find disconcerting is the fact that adults can't come to a site such as this and engage in heated, if not contentious debate, all the while maintaining a certain level of civility.

Not exact matches

«If you're at work and there's a contentious meeting going on and tempers are starting to flare, you don't have to open up the closet and pull out all this equipment, sit down cross-legged, light the incense and look weird,» meditation expert Sharon Salzberg says.

In sum, women do not love Trump as much as men do, and in a contentious race, this will matter.

It turns out that in potentially contentious negotiations, when the two sides seemingly can't agree on anything, they can usually come to terms regarding a time limit for talks.

Oliver's speech did not address the contentious issue of income splitting, another 2011 campaign promise that his predecessor, Jim Flaherty, had publicly questioned.

A mediator will be appointed to work out the contentious details of plant closures with power companies, who were not represented at the announcement.

Troubling or not, here's how a few contentious down ballot races played out in yesterday's election, and what the results could mean for Canadian businesses.

I was working on something related to movies the other day and came across an interesting slice of history I was not aware of that could have some bearing on a particularly contentious debate going on today.

«The idea was not for it to be contentious or political in any way.»

Casinos embracing solar technology doesn't sound like a contentious issue, but it has become one in Nevada.

While the merits of building a subway line over a light - rail one are, in this instance, contentious, the move at least bucks a trend in Toronto, a city where subway plans are often scrapped — not formed on short notice (not to mention at a higher cost).

The short - term spending bill, while not nearly as large or as contentious as the tax reform, was nonetheless critical to avoiding what could have been a disastrous government shutdown over the holidays.

In case you haven't been following this topic recently, it has become so contentious that it approaches «third rail» status in some media circles.

It shouldn't be all that contentious, either.

However, this was a planned hard fork and not meant to be contentious.

For one thing, two of the most contentious parts of the package — the lower top individual income tax rate and lower corporate rate — are not given a specific number.

The governor said he is not taking a position on the contentious Line 3 replacement plan.

The «Byrd bath» isn't a public event: We'll know its outcome by what's included in the final legislation put forward by McConnell — and some of the most contentious issues could be litigated on the Senate floor.

The contentious political environment in the US did not affect the broader economy.

It is a contentious hardork made to centralize development under the control of Bitmain, so they can exploit difficulty reratings and fees in one hand, and please the communist Chinese goverment which oversight and approves all operations of all Chinese companies, and Bitmain is not an exception.

But in the maelstrom of last - minute action before the House heads home Friday, the bill has not been scheduled for what was expected to be a contentious debate on the floor.

Although, the decision by Mr. Harper to shut down Parliament has proved to be a contentious issue, it is not the issue that brought back Mr. Stairs.

In case that wasn't enough, another contentious hard fork is scheduled for November under the name Segwit2x.

One source of uncertainty and frustration in Canada and Mexico is that the Trump administration has not yet made concrete proposals on the most contentious issues — although these may be coming at the fourth round in Washington.

This hard fork is not supported by the majority of the Bitcoin users and developers and is therefore a contentious hard fork.

I don't expect 2012 to be any less contentious.

The duo sat down for an extended interview with EW, in which they talked about their favorite memories, what they didn't like and, interestingly, their contentious off - screen relationship.

Instead, they want the church to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox Church.

, and that «the Bible doesn't actually command contentious women to sit on their roofs, and rooftops in the ancient Near East would have been flat and habitable anyway» (p. 17).

Or does not this also belong to the true nature of the Good, this zeal for itself, that will not tolerate anyone else, any strange helper, any interference by some contentious one who might only create confusion.

«The government can not create an avenue of expression for one side of a contentious political issue while denying an equal opportunity to citizens with the opposite view.»

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

When we are tired one of the surest symptoms of our fatigue is that we begin imagining controversies with other people, making up in our minds contentious conversations with folk whom we do not like, writing imaginary letters swelling with rage or bitter with sarcasm.

The contentious issue today, it seems to me, is not whether matter of every kind has an intelligible structure, but whether there is any purpose for which it has this.

It's not merely the heated aftermath of a contentious election.