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In the most contentious Democratic debate so far, one of the most contentious issues in contemporary American politics remained a subject of vague consensus and lofty rhetoric.
What is left unsaid is that the most contentious issue now - the calling of witnesses - was also the most contentious issue then and was not resolved until well into the trial.
Already, it holds the promise of a most contentious period.
The court's most contentious rulings commonly are issued in June.
Perhaps the most contentious point concerns taxes and public spending.
The color, not the form, is the most contentious aspect.
But the world's most contentious divorce is far from settled.
This could be one of the most contentious hearings in years.
Garner is the subject of one of Hollywood's most contentious divorces.
Seven of the nine most contentious Senate races involve incumbent Republicans.
He spoke a day after the most contentious Democratic debate yet.
But some of the thorniest and most contentious issues lie ahead.
Tell us why you love television's most contentious time of year.
This is one of the most contentious issues between both countries.
Abortion is one of the most contentious issues in U.S. politics.
Here are some of the most contentious frontiers around the world.
But one of the most contentious prohibitions is against the ferret.
It will be one of the most contentious political battles in decades.
It is the reform of the legislature, however, that is most contentious.
The hall ennobles even the most contentious speakers with its majestic rostrum.
It is a final set of American demands that is most contentious.
That is one of the most contentious issues in the coalition talks.
ICRs are one of the most contentious parts of the proposed law.
Although the league has cleared Manning, his case remains the most contentious.
Nirappil: This was one of the most contentious races of the year.
Therein lies one of the most contentious debates in economics right now.
Bernhardt's nomination has so far been the most contentious of the four.
Today is World Refugee Day, the most contentious one in recent memory.
Among the most contentious has been the separation of families in detention.
The most contentious provision affects the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
It may be one of the most contentious of the confirmation hearings.
Here are five of the most contentious border standoffs on the planet.
Pruitt has been one of the most contentious of President Donald Trump's nominees.
That the most contentious battles were waged on the internet is no coincidence.
RNC Perhaps the most contentious relationship was between the NRSC and the RNC.
The backstop is the most contentious part of the rejected deal in Britain.
Tightening migrant benefits is the most contentious of his four "baskets" of demands.
Dem blasts Nielsen over asylum laws The most contentious exchange came when Rep.
"Assault weapons" is among the most contentious phrases in discussions on gun control.
But the withdrawal agreement contains some of the most contentious pieces of Mrs.
The most contentious addition to the Versa 2 is Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.
The negotiations between the UAW and GM were by far the most contentious.
The migrant holding centers are among the most contentious components of the plan.
And so it was one of the most contentious meetings that I've attended.
It is also one of the most contentious trade policies of our time.
At the time, it was one of the most contentious bureaus in the country.
AMONG the most contentious issues in negotiations over Brexit is the status of expatriates.
The letter drops some of the most contentious items from an earlier American wishlist.
But perhaps the most contentious question is about FARC's future as a political party.
LGBT rights constitute one of the most contentious and evolving areas of litigation today.
The communal office fridge is one of the most contentious areas of any office.
Still, immigration remains one of the most contentious policy issues in the United States.
The most contentious issue up for debate is the possible trade of elephant ivory.
The most contentious part of the package will be whether to restart bond purchases.
It may be because Wikipedia fosters consensus, on even the most contentious of topics.
The clash between Castro and Biden was perhaps the most contentious of the debate.
The Caucus chair election was the day's first and most contentious race, as Rep.
Some of the most contentious exchanges focused on sexual harassment and race — with Sen.
In the past 40 years, the most contentious Cabinet post has been attorney general.
But a debate in November over Mr. Trump's image has been perhaps the most contentious.
North Dakota features one of the most contentious Senate races of 2018, as Democratic Sen.
Clinton went on the attack against Sanders on Thursday in their most contentious debate yet.
This debate was the duo's most contentious yet, not even beginning with the traditional handshake.
Tuesday, as one of the most contentious elections in recent memory came to a close.
This was to become one of the most contentious of Weber's legacies to German politics.
Indeed, the most contentious elements of the Tusk deal seem designed to avoid such antics.
One of the most contentious issues in the Korean negotiations was on the auto industry.
This has been one of the most contentious issues even before official exit talks begin.
The death penalty has long been one of the most contentious issues in the state.
Last year, Caitlin helped to uncover one of the Trump administration's most contentious border policies.
But the policing bills remained the most contentious up until the moment of the vote.
But trade and climate, to be discussed on Friday afternoon, are the most contentious issues.
And yet Trump keeps trying to force their hand on the most contentious comprehensive reforms.
But there has been no clear sign of a conclusive breakthrough on the most contentious issues.
And the Court typically decides the most contentious cases in the final days of its term.
The most contentious part of their lives was dealing with their parents and their trust funds.
But the deep divide over gay rights remains one of the most contentious in American politics.
DNA testing in horse racing is relatively new but already one of its most contentious topics.
Why it matters: Some of our most contentious political debates are ultimately settled in the courts.
One of the most contentious issues throughout the negotiations has been the future of General Haftar.
Take for example one of the most contentious issues in US foreign policy: the Vietnam War.
Family separations are one of the most contentious aspects of the Trump administration's new border policies.
Among the most contentious projects is a new $2 billion coal mine in the country's northeast.
The occupation and Israeli settlements have for years been among the most contentious foreign policy topics.
The gaggle was calculating Ireland's readiness to handle what is fast becoming its most contentious frontier.
American reactions to AIDS form one of the most contentious and divisive chapters in recent history.
It was by far the most contentious piece of the offshore drilling plan floated in January.
In other words: The actual crisis at hand, DACA, is no longer the most contentious issue.
And in some of the most contentious exchanges, the pundits differed on which contender did best.
But it is the issue of software-makers' liability for their products that will prove most contentious.
If he does, critics will be watching how open he is about the commission's most contentious actions.
But even the most contentious social reforms come and go, whereas Brexit is permanent and all-encompassing.
Today's meeting focused on Medicaid, likely to be one of the most contentious issues for the Senate.
IMMIGRATION WAS one of the most emotive, most contentious issues of the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016.
The most contentious fight has centered on health care and the long Republican effort to repeal Obamacare.
But Wednesday's hearing, two days after that debate, may have marked the most contentious of her tenure.
By far the most contentious moment in the otherwise-calm hearing came during heated questioning from Sen.
The past week has been one of the most contentious stretches on the campaign trail for Democrats.
The ERA's potential impact on abortion rights remains one of the most contentious aspects of the amendment.
It has been described as one of the most contentious, tawdry and angry presidential elections in history.
He stayed above the political fray when asked about the most contentious issues between the two countries.
Brazile's remarks come as Sessions heads for what could be one of the most contentious confirmation hearings.
On Thursday night, his most contentious speech was about how "greedy" drug companies could help end AIDS.
These mechanisms are called consensus algorithms, and they are among the most contentious pieces of blockchain design.
This is going to be the most contentious part of this guide, and there's no easy answer.
Jackson clashed with his father at times, and basketball could be the most contentious subject of all.
It's even more intense when your first movie, ever, is the most contentious Star Wars film, ever.
Among the most contentious issues under discussion is how to ensure that Mexico raises its labor standards.
One of the most contentious issues in the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation is the Chapter 21625 dispute process.
The final bill is the product of the most contentious — and partisan — defense negotiations in recent memory.
Two of the most contentious and longstanding issues are: first, the antidumping mechanism ruled in Chapter 19.
Among the most contentious issues under discussion is how to ensure that Mexico raises its labor standards.
The automotive content provisions, the most contentious, could speed a shift of parts-making away from China.
Legal scholars say the bankruptcy is one of the most contentious and complicated they have ever seen.
The circumstances of their arrest have emerged as one of the most contentious parts of the case.
The migrant crisis – the country's most contentious political issue – is where Germany's fake news found its formula.
One of the most contentious debates about President Trump's potential nominees concerns the legal concept of stare decisis.
Most contentious is the academy's new rule to weed out less active members, an effort that has precedents.
But in a rare interview she made clear that she agrees with some of his most contentious proposals.
It was the first major election since the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in 2014, and the most contentious.
Japan and South Korea reached recently an agreement on one of the most contentious issues in their history.
Among the most contentious areas of the spending fight involve some of Trump's biggest pet issues, like immigration.
Twitter claims this uptick in account suspensions and limitations is changing the behavior of its most contentious users.
The backstop is by far the most contentious part of the rejected deal for many lawmakers in Britain.
But it's fair to say that the most contentious, lately, is for projects which involve a smartphone app.
The IEA's most contentious finding is that emissions from China, the world's biggest polluter, dropped 1.5% last year.
But the borders in Kashmir, where Pakistan, India and China all have competing claims, are the most contentious.
The most contentious one right now is what to do about fake news, or more accurately, hoax news?
In Hollywood today, some of the most contentious debates continue to center on just who can play whom.
But the event is still expected to be one of the most contentious inaugural ceremonies in modern history.
Abortion is — and is likely to continue to be — one of the most contentious issues of our time.
With a tone both cheeky and indignant, La Pulla takes on the most contentious issues of the day.
Likely to be the most contentious aspect of the legislation is the requirement that private employers provide training.
Even her most contentious remark about the Democratic leanings of mass shooters earned high marks from some Republicans.
It was Mr. Obama whose most contentious relationship with a foreign leader was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Intensive negotiations had yielded important progress, but the two sides remained far apart on the most contentious issues.
But, first, one of the most contentious hearings on Capitol Hill that we have seen in quite some time.
After a weekend full of midterm results, many of the most contentious outstanding 2178 elections have now been called.
Trade and climate change were expected to be two of the most contentious issues of the two-day meeting.
" But perhaps Williams' most contentious claim was that single mothers cannot "raise a black boy to become a man.
They each had their own journey to the middle of the most contentious Supreme Court fight in 30 years.
One of the most contentious issues in the current Irish abortion debate involves women whose fetuses have fatal abnormalities.
The superdelegate system has been perhaps the most contentious topic of discussion among members of the Unity Reform Commission.
The most contentious aspect involves lengthening the statute of limitations, which imposes deadlines on courts to complete legal proceedings.
As CBP commissioner, McAleenan has overseen and enforced some of the most contentious border policy decisions in recent years.
In a well-deserved twist, a guy just looking to argue was turned into this week's most contentious memes.
This emerged as one of the most contentious points in the days after Google's first demo at I/O.
But then again, this is 2016, a week before the ugliest and most contentious presidential campaign in recent history.
Most contentious is the appointment of Wiranto (who like many Indonesians uses only one name) as chief security minister.
The plan, according to the Journal, would end one of the most contentious elements of the Saudi guardianship system.
"The issues of self-definition are really the most contentious and difficult issues in the country," Mr. Cannon said.
Most contentious is a provision that will provide a 10-year period of marketing exclusivity for brand name drugs.
The importance of the state to both campaigns was evident during the debate, one of the most contentious yet.
One of Congress's most contentious committees is pushing toward a rare bipartisan victory: reforming the United States Postal Service.
Puzder is looking to overhaul an agency at the forefront of some of the Obama administration's most contentious projects.
In the culture wars over free speech, battles over the right to boycott Israel are among the most contentious.
The most contentious provisions include a new $27,27 franchise renewal fee and a requirement that stores open on Christmas.
It has since become a $173 million company and one of the most contentious brands in the wellness industry.
Some of the most contentious defense issues - including over Russian rocket engines, Syria and Iran - are yet to come.
Although the call for married clerics has been the most contentious proposal, it is presented in strikingly cautious terms.
But one of the most contentious showdowns between an activist hedge fund and a public company just got bizarre.
The British capital, Uber's most lucrative European market, is also home to some of its most contentious regulatory struggles.
By far the most contentious recommendation is to turn Lee Chapel, the central campus event space, into a museum.
Brett J. Talley: 'Practice some humility' Holiday gatherings can be stressful even without the most contentious election in modern history.
It marks a historic moment for the central bank, as President Mario Draghi dismantles one of his most contentious policies.
His election last November (by members of the academy) was one of the most contentious in its 120-year history.
She is running against Republican Brian Kemp in what has become one of the most contentious races in the country.
Perhaps the most contentious award of the evening went to Kim Kardashian West, who was honored with the Influencer Award.
Hacks, data leaks, and disinformation have all added to the chaos of one of the most contentious elections in history.
After all, when normal politics resumes it will do so at one of the most contentious Washington moments in years.
Anyone could have won and even the most contentious of anonymous Twitter users would have found little to argue with.
The issue of refugees and Jerusalem remain two of the most contentious with neither side appearing likely to cede ground.
MORE suffered one of the most contentious and heartbreaking defeats in recent memory when he ran for president in 2000.
The most contentious part is the provisions for bringing to justice those who committed horrific crimes against non-combatant Colombians.
Arguably, the most contentious race this year has been for governor in Veracruz, a state wracked by corruption and violence.
Taking ventilators from patients who did not appear to be improving was "the single most contentious issue," Dr. Toner said.
But the most contentious group of those excluded from reunification consists of parents the government has determined do not qualify.
The most contentious point in next Thursday's debate will be whether to restart bond purchases, commonly known as quantitative easing.
But if you actually look at the polling, there's a huge amount of consensus around even the most contentious issues.
The sponsors of Project Blitz have pinned their deepest hopes on the third and most contentious category of model legislation.
But they also heaped personal attacks on one another in the most contentious of the nine Democratic White House debates.
Whatever the nature of the transaction, condition remains the most contentious criteria for a would-be Ferrari 250 GTO buyer.
And they are exploring ways to use the budget process to potentially defund some of the law's most contentious provisions.
Juul now finds itself at the center of what's becoming arguably the most contentious battle over nicotine use in decades.
Now, after the most contentious of elections, Americans are divided and confused about what to believe about the incoming president.
The border between North Korea and South Korea has been one of the most contentious in the world for decades.
The controversy, naturally enough, focused on the most contentious aspects of the bill rather than on the most broadly popular.
Read: The 5 Most Contentious Border Standoffs on the Planet After the first Agni-IV launch of 2018, on Jan.
"Aside from 'Africa' by Toto, [Beyonce's] 'Love On Top' was the most contentious placing," Desideri told me in an email.
Abortion has remained one of the most contentious issues in U.S. politics since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v.
The 2016 presidential race is one of the most contentious in recent history, and it's also one of the most complicated.
Musk says he has no plans to stop using Twitter, nor does he regret his most contentious tweet of the month.
Besides criminal justice, the two most contentious parts of Garland's judicial record are his Guantanamo rulings and his gun rights decisions.
Among the most contentious elements, Basel proposed a "floor" for capital, which sources said Basel members have now agreed to change.
ET. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton clashed with Bernie Sanders last night in Brooklyn at their most contentious debate yet.
With the possible exception of Senator Jeff Sessions, the attorney general nominee, DeVos proved the most contentious of Trump's cabinet picks.
Though she has faced tough reelection battles before, her challenge from Hawley is widely regarded as the most contentious so far.
The most contentious debate is over an incentive intended to promote investment in economically struggling neighborhoods called targeted investment areas (TEA).
" The fight has become, Liesl Gerntholtz of Human Rights Watch says, "the most contentious and divisive issue in today's women's movement.
The most contentious moments of the day instead involved far-right internet figures who traveled to Capitol Hill for the hearings.
But it didn't take long for the exchange to become heated, with health care bringing the most contentious back-and-forth.
It was Alabama's abortion measure, the strictest in the nation, that sparked the most contentious debate of any legislation this session.
How long would it take to address the most contentious intractable issues, the I.P. and the state-owned enterprises, et cetera?
One of the most contentious issues that has yet to be resolved is whether to have witnesses in the Senate trial.
In the most contentious Democratic debate yet, the former vice president's rivals didn't bother to give him oxygen by attacking him.
And in turn, he questioned whether Clinton was qualified to be president, pushing the primary into is most contentious territory yet.
But one of the most contentious moments so far came on Monday after the jury had been dismissed for the day.
London is one of Uber's most lucrative markets, but also home to some of its most contentious struggles with government authorities.
One of the most contentious parts of the plan is how the country wants to meet Chinese demand with Chinese products.
One of General Kelly's most contentious statements, however, was that 500,000 Americans had died from terrorism connected to the drug trade.
And neither party appears willing to back down on the most contentious piece of negotiations: $5 billion for Trump's border wall.
He refereed some of the Senate's most contentious health care fights, including the 1994 Clinton reform effort and Obamacare's 2010 passage.
It was one of the most contentious and stand out moments from a long day of testimony for Barr on Capitol Hill.
Face recognition is one of the most contentious areas in privacy and surveillance studies, because of issues of both privacy and race.
At 6663, Jared Kushner just barely makes the cut for America's most contentious demographic, and yet somehow embodies all of those stereotypes.
Hodges -- the same-sex marriage case -- "reasonable and sincere people" hold contradictory views even on the most contentious issues of our day.
But liberals had high hopes that Justice Kennedy would see the law their way in three of the year's most contentious cases.
Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault while he was in high school and his nomination fight became the most contentious in decades.
The leaders of the Freedom Caucus were not there, however, and the most contentious issues, around pre-existing condition protections, remain unresolved.
These stay-out-of-jail provisions are the most contentious parts of the peace agreement and may yet cause it to founder.
Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Bourdain's trip to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in 2013 was perhaps his most contentious.
The film, with dialogue mostly in Tamil, isn't didactic but touches on the most contentious issues in Europe today — immigration and integration.
The fight over Brett Kavanaugh's White House records is producing one of the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings in a generation.
While there, he also broke another of Cairo's unwritten rules: the one against holding state meetings in that most contentious city, Jerusalem.
Look no further than what was likely to be the most contentious element proposed in California's version: forcing people to accept shelter.
Race remains the most contentious issue in our lives today, its weight reflected on every part of us, including our clothing choices.
Uber will now let riders tip drivers, addressing one of the most contentious features of its app amid turmoil within the company.
The most contentious provision of the plans would require websites to use filtering software to screen such content before it was posted.
It's probably the most contentious question in the dieting wars: How much do carbs really matter when it comes to weight loss?
Facing intensifying scrutiny of his long record, Mr. Biden has yet to allay concerns about the most contentious aspects of his career.
The most contentious provision ended up being offering $600 per week, over four months, in federal unemployment assistance to laid-off employees.
That era, known as Reconstruction, is one of the most contentious in this nation's history, and also one of the most misunderstood.
The main issues were also the most contentious: immigration, crime, the welfare state and, after a summer of forest fires, the environment.
The most contentious of the disputed areas is Kirkuk, an oil-rich city inhabited by Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens and smaller ethnic groups.
The Supreme Court in April heard arguments on President Trump's third travel ban — perhaps the most contentious case they'll hear this term.
The capital key would be one of the most contentious options and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has already come out in opposition.
The most contentious trade cases the president will have to weigh in on are twin investigations regarding imports of steel and aluminum.
The most contentious work that pries open past atrocities and unveils another explosive matter is Yukinori Yanagi's updated "Project God-zilla," (2017).
His job: Defend in court the F.C.C.'s most contentious policy — rules to classify broadband Internet providers as utilities, widely called net neutrality.
It began with three UCLA players arrested for shoplifting in China, one of them the son of basketball's most contentious dad, LaVar Ball.
Pitt's latest filing supports earlier speculation that custody will be one of, if not the most, contentious issues in this extremely complicated divorce.
Most contentious are the three open seats in Republican-held districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016: the 5th, 6th, and 7th districts.
One of the most contentious points is the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO) — an intergovernmental institution that regulates international trade practices.
His overall national lead was an issue Mr. Biden leaned heavily on during the debate on Friday night, the most contentious one yet.
This could harm a lot of people, because water is the source of the most contentious and enduring battles in America's largest state.
That would be an even more dramatic change, reviving one of the most contentious ideas from Republicans' repeal-and-replace bills in 2017.
But it will have a big influence on those elections, which are shaping up to be the most contentious and consequential in decades.
Who will ultimately control that data, from the sensors to the cloud and back, is one of the most contentious questions in tech.
One of the most contentious arguments within the climate community is over the role of nuclear power in decarbonization over the coming century.
And this week, I've come to one of watch the primary go down in one of the most contentious places in America: Arizona.
China's maritime claims are ASEAN's most contentious issue, as its members struggle to balance mutual support with their growing economic relations with Beijing.
Then the tall, barrel-chested Collin County Sheriff James Skinner saunters forward for what will be the most contentious part of the meeting.
The issue of denuclearization, long a sticking point between the two countries, remains the most contentious and challenging aspect of any potential deal.
With less than seven weeks to go before the election, here is the situation in the most contentious areas, abroad and at home.
It allows him to install subordinates who would not get Senate approval, giving him pliant department heads to enact his most contentious policies.
Of all the disagreements among tiger seekers, the most contentious is this: Do they, could they possibly, still live on the Australian mainland?
Perhaps the most contentious piece of the agreement is a "transitional justice" system in which former rebels could receive reduced sentences for disarming.
Elliott's battle with Arconic is the most contentious U.S. proxy battle so far during the spring annual meeting season for publicly traded companies.
It delves into the question of whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God, which emerged as the most contentious point in public.
The so-called "exit bill" is one of the first issues on the Brexit negotiating agenda, and also one of the most contentious.
China's maritime claims are ASEAN's most contentious issue, as its members struggle to balance mutual support with their growing economic relations with China.
His approval brings to a close the last and most contentious impasse among U.S. states that enacted late budgets for this fiscal year.
Video Explainer The gun-control debate is one of the most contentious in American politics, pitting proponents of regulation against gun-rights advocates.
Mr. McCabe, who was appointed deputy director in January 2016, has endured one of the most contentious periods in the F.B.I.'s history.
Those theaters house the largest — and possibly the most contentious — ballet company in the world, a place of titanic personalities and deep history.
Gun rights, which are covered by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, are one of the most contentious themes of American politics.
The rejection was based on his criticism of the Jay Treaty with Britain, one of the most contentious political issues of that time.
The 1973 Endangered Species Act is at once the noblest and most contentious of the landmark environmental statutes enacted during the Nixon presidency.
Two of the most contentious parts of the Nafta discussions have to do with how the three countries settle trade disputes among themselves.
The most contentious item, a move to strictly limit payouts from labor boards to fired workers, appears to be off limits for discussion.
Moreover, some of the early sticking points — like the European Union's access to British fishing grounds — are going to be the most contentious.
The rule of origin is most contentious in the auto industry; cars must contain at least 62.5 percent American, Canadian or Mexican content.
He has moved away from some of the most contentious stances that he adopted during the campaign, several of which had discomfited Europeans.
But the most contentious issues Sweeney touched on were his comments that "we should get the marketing departments out of politics," he said.
Though tigers are the most contentious of Asia's farmed wildlife, they are by no means the only species caught up in the industry.
Indeed, the Founders discussed and debated the most contentious issues – from the media to taxation, education, religion and beyond – that America confronts today.
Tria said the government was "busy drafting an answer to the European Commission with regards to the most contentious points of the budget".
But the so-called Bay-Delta plan is shaping up to be among the most contentious battles of California's long-running water wars.
Today's episode of The Daily podcast looks at Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old behind many of Mr. Trump's most contentious executive orders.
Minnesota will be a pivotal battleground in the midterm fight for the House majority, featuring five of 2023's most contentious races. Rep.
He voiced opposition to some of Trump's most contentious acts, including withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and escalating tensions with North Korea.
But the continuing resolution leaves some of the most contentious decisions unresolved, kicking debate over issues like immigration and ObamaCare to next year.
One of the most contentious lynching episodes anywhere in the West involved the ancestors of Ms. Valencia, the El Paso teachers' union official.
Some of the most contentious drama that took place during Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones didn't happen on TV, but on Twitter.
Considering the fact that immigration was one of the 2016 election's most contentious topics, it's not exactly difficult to see the connection there.
It's a series of stupefying volleys between an owner and a board, spotlighting one of the most contentious regime changes in corporate history.
But even The OA's biggest fans were left a bit bewildered by its finale, one of the most contentious small-screen denouements in memory.
"I've said before that repeal of the Durbin amendment was the most contentious part of the bill among Republicans," he said in a statement.
The border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which will become Britain's only land frontier with the EU, remains the most contentious part of negotiations.
But the issue of a married priesthood for the Amazon region was by far the most contentious item in the 120-paragraph final document.
But the law's most contentious clause, which broadly prohibits the use of the telecommunications network to "extort, defame, disturb or intimidate" remains in place.
This very boring-sounding thing was the most contentious vote of the day: It had the power to make or break Johnson's Brexit plans.
We have just been through one of the most contentious elections in memory, which can make it even harder to put our differences aside.
The order, which replaced a broader January one that was blocked by federal courts, was one of the most contentious acts of his presidency.
One of the most contentious issues has revolved around whether tech firms would have to hand over data they held even if was encrypted.
As Trump marks the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, here's a look back at some of his most contentious statements in office. 26.
Moon's most contentious differences with Trump will likely be his ambivalent views on the enforcement of U.N. sanctions and the THAAD missile defense system.
The most contentious piece of last year's proposal is to allow drilling off the Atlantic coast, which has never seen drilling beyond exploratory wells.
Any tampering with the law governing the monarchy would be most contentious, which is why Emperor Akihito's oblique appeal poses a problem for politicians.
Scaling Back In this most contentious of elections, you wouldn't think that a soda tax would be the issue to attract the big bucks.
Already, both sides have staked out very different positions on immigration, an issue that promises to be the most contentious in the separation proceedings.
The effects of HB2 became the most contentious issue in the gubernatorial race; Cooper campaigned to repeal the law, and McCrory staunchly defended it.
Hundreds of activists there pushing for workers' and minority rights, two of the most contentious issues in Iran, have been detained in recent weeks.
The moves are the latest turn in the biggest and most contentious takeover battle for a large oil company in at least 15 years.
Ms. DeVos's proposed regulations have garnered more than 20163,000 public comments, making Title IX one of the most contentious rules in the department's history.
The Kavanaugh nomination proceedings were the most contentious in decades, and the justice was confirmed in the closest Senate vote since the 19th century.
The most contentious issue is whether small amounts of sulfur dioxide, a kind of cure-all antioxidant and preservative, should be employed at all.
So Mr. Johnson tried to find another solution, namely killing off the backstop but adopting different versions of some of its most contentious features.
The bill has emerged as one of the most contentious issues for the Texas Legislature, stirring marathon debates among lawmakers at packed overnight hearings.
The meeting also appeared to illustrate support for some of the most contentious issues that Trump has faced since taking office on Jan. 20.
The most contentious proposal deals with changes to the Senate, which would have become a mostly consultative body consisting of regional and municipal officials.
One of the most contentious issues – the bill that the U.K. needs to pay before leaving the EU - is a good example of that.
Many of Mr. Sessions's answers appeared calculated to distance himself from some of Mr. Trump's most contentious threats and pledges on the campaign trail.
But the agreement doesn't eliminate the need for negotiations over the most contentious elements, which will be handled at the subcommittee level, aides said.
As we enter what is likely to be one of the most contentious news cycles yet, we could all use a bit of serenity.
The call is the latest step in what is already shaping up to be one of the most contentious proxy fights of the year.
In the most contentious proposal, the report embraced Reagan's Star Wars plan of putting weapons in space to shoot down enemy missiles during ascent.
They are accurate to within six inches of the ball, which wouldn't help when the most contentious calls come down to much smaller distances.
"We're in the business of having an unbiased tool which can solve one of the most contentious problems in the U.S. right now," said Kramer.
Reforming the Medicaid expansion allowed under the Affordable Care Act has becomes one of the most contentious hurdles for lawmakers repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Some of the most contentious moments, though, were during the discussion about Russia and the ongoing probe into Moscow's interference in the 248 presidential election.
As a nation searches for answers after one of the most contentious and improbable presidential elections in some time, some people are turning to nature.
Gibraltar's status after Britain leaves the EU is set to be one of the most contentious issues in complex exit talks expected to last years.
The EU is adamant that the most contentious part of the deal - the Withdrawal Agreement setting out a post-Brexit transition period - cannot be reopened.
Perhaps his most contentious decision was the sale of land owned by Real Madrid in La Castellana Avenue, very near the heart of the city.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's status as a trade power has become one of the most contentious issues in the European Union membership referendum on June 0003.
The most contentious hearing was with Mr. Pruitt, who faced an entire day of questions about his spending, housing arrangements and raises for staff members.
The orders of January 25th may be a sign they feel a tad skittish about extending their hand still further into America's most contentious disputes.
The disputed sea, through which more than $5 trillion in global trade passes each year, is the most contentious issue for the 10 ASEAN members.
This is likely the most contentious question we're tackling here, and the answers may be surprising because they both contradict and bolster certain regional stereotypes.
East Jerusalem, one of the most contentious subjects in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, was not part of the original lines drawn for Israel.
The talks are supposed to finish in December but trade experts say this is unlikely, given the complexity of some of the most contentious topics.
A push to prohibit the death penalty in drug cases is expected to be one of the most contentious items in the discussions this week.
The health bill, known as the Labor-Health and Human Services bill, is historically among the most contentious spending bills debated by Congress each year.
The rule, which requires internet service providers to treat all traffic equally, has been one of the most contentious issues under FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
Hopkins' controversial remarks — often publicised on social media — led her to quickly become one of the UK's most contentious figures on screen and in print.
Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday had the most contentious debate of their primary battle, just days before Tuesday's crucial New York contest.
Eliminating the deduction that taxpayers take for state and local tax expenses has emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the tax debate.
The most contentious quarrel is over where its national territory ends and Serbia's begins along a 201-mile stretch of land near the Danube River.
Chief Justice John Roberts signaled last week that his court would hear some of the most contentious – and potentially explosive – cases of the Trump era.
"Yet those three questions are at the heart of some of our most contentious land use and economic development conversations in the country," he said.
Tara Setmayer: Sanders should have been the target, not Bloomberg There was no shortage of zingers during the most contentious Democratic debate to date: Sens.
One of the most contentious fights in the coming tax overhaul effort is likely to be the push the eliminate state and local tax deductions.
Crucially, the resolution, which passed 100-0, did not resolve whether witnesses would be called — one of the most contentious questions in any impeachment trial.
One of the most contentious measures requires transgender people in public buildings to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificate.
The most contentious part is at least $203 billion in cuts over a decade in "mandatory" spending on programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
It comes at a time when immigration is one of the most contentious issues in countries such as the United States, Italy, Germany and Hungary.
The case is one of the most contentious in a pivotal term, and protesters from both sides are expected to flood the Court Monday morning.
Money for the border wall has been among the most contentious issues in funding negotiations between Democrats and Republicans for Trump's entire time in office.
The use of the word "bitch" in the lyrics to "Famous" has been the most contentious point, especially in light of the new video evidence.
The Republican National Committee chairman is being rewarded for shepherding his party through the most contentious election in memory by becoming Trump's chief of staff.
But to undocumented immigrants and activists like Mora, the decision effectively meant Facebook was picking sides in one of the most contentious political issues in America.
The impact of EU migrant labour is the most contentious issue for the government's Brexit-backing electorate, yet it has since slowed to a relative trickle.
Thus, the brief period when the Supreme Court seemed to shy away from the most contentious issues appears likely to come to a close this term.
Bill Clinton's comments come just a day after the most contentious Democratic debate yet, in which Sanders hammered Hillary Clinton for her speeches to large banks.
Evercore, Moelis and Centerview Partners have earned coveted advisory spots advising both sides in what would be the largest and possibly most contentious tech takeover ever.
Some of the Dodd Frank provisions that are most contentious prohibit banks from some higher risk investments and require higher capital requirements of the biggest banks.
It would be two years before Comey found his name in the headlines again — and in the middle of the most contentious presidential election in history.
The backstop is the most contentious part of the divorce deal the government has agreed with the EU. Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge
It's also one of the most contentious issues of the whole vote — one of the biggest reasons why Brexit happened was precisely because of this issue.
While the wall funding was the most contentious piece of the appropriations bill, it was just a small sliver of the spending package the House approved.
LONDON (Reuters) - After losing the most contentious referendum in British history, James McGrory went for a drink in The Hope pub near London's medieval meat market.
The backstop, one of the most contentious parts of the deal, would mean Britain being trapped in "economic and political servitude" to the EU, he said.
Campaigns, even the most contentious ones, usually contain a dash of uplift, something to make voters feel good about putting a check mark in the box.
The former seems to be the most contentious problem, which has seen no progress since the U.K. officially declared its intention to leave the European Union.
For a start, it is not certain that even the most contentious of his actions are broadly unpopular, even as they spark fury on the left.
"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.
The most contentious potential casualty of the restructuring is the Hopman Cup, which was won by Swiss pairing Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic at the weekend.
It also has become one of Silicon Valley's most contentious corporate soap operas, while continuing to generate billions in revenue by having helped revolutionize global transportation.
The backdrop:  Trade has been the most contentious issue within the White House but Trump's team has more agreement over the 301 issue than any other.
Funding a border wall is one of the most contentious issues on Capitol Hill, and many legislators consider a physical barrier to be antiquated and ineffective.
President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on German support for one of Europe's most contentious energy developments Wednesday, saying Germany is "totally controlled" by Russia.
But the crusade died in the Senate, where Medicaid cuts were one of the most contentious issues that helped doom the plan in the upper chamber.
But immigration has proved to be the most contentious fight, with local officials assuring undocumented immigrants that they would do all they could to protect them.
But Justice Kennedy has also been a decisive vote for rulings that cemented conservative principles in some of the most contentious issues in American political life.
Seattle is fast approaching one of the most contentious local elections in recent memory, and Amazon this week dropped an additional $1 million into the fray.
The TikTok became a vehicle for discussing some of the most contentious issues that are being debated as the US heads into the 2020 presidential election.
"Obviously, that is the most contentious part of these proceedings and that will be addressed at that time and not before the trial begins," he said.
No disaster for Sanders Warren might have bested Sanders in the night's most contentious exchange but the debate was far from disastrous for the Vermont senator.
Voters in Florida and Arizona are set to vote on Tuesday in what are likely to be some of the most contentious primaries of the season.
Earlier this year, a feature-length documentary called Human Nature premiered at SXSW, featuring interviews with the brightest stars and most contentious figures in the Crisprati.
That's one of the questions our new bureau in Sydney is exploring after one of the most contentious weeks between the two countries in recent memory.
The most contentious would penalise banks for holding heaps of their home countries' sovereign debt—long a non-starter for Italy and other heavily indebted states.
In the 1990s and 2000s, people used to look at three Ts -- Taiwan, Tibet and Tiananmen (massacre) as the most contentious topics in US-China relations.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) seems concerned with one of the most contentious issues in the ongoing Brexit negotiations — the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Kathleen Sebelius ended up being the most contentious nomination, since anti-abortion groups decided to go hard at her, but she still got nine Republican votes.
But they are still exploring one of the most contentious issues: whether to change a state provision holding utilities responsible for fires caused by their equipment.
In this election — one of the most contentious in history, defined by Republican aggression and Democrat restraint — exhausted Clinton supporters don't care if McKinnon is accurate.
The dispute is shaping up as one of the most contentious issues facing the bloc, exacerbating an east-west rift as it seeks unity to tackle Brexit.
Bill Owens of New York, who was narrowly reelected in 2010, said Obamacare was one of the most contentious issues in all three of his congressional elections.
A draft text is then agreed on weeks ahead of the summit, with only the most contentious issues left for leaders to sort out when they meet.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of four conservatives and four liberals was in a holding pattern, deciding as little as possible and deadlocked on the most contentious issues.
Immigration is one of the most contentious issues in the upcoming French election, mainly after suffering three major terrorist attacks in a bit more than a year.
His contrarian instincts have already led him to out-of-the-way-markets like Chechnya and Congo, but the North Korean investments may be the most contentious.
Most contentious is the way in which it licenses its intellectual property to device-makers, charging them a percentage of the total selling price of their devices.
Missile defense spending has been one of the most contentious fights over the Pentagon budget, as efforts to shoot down incoming missiles have a checkered track record.
The most contentious has been a North Carolina law that bars transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not match the sex on their birth certificates.
Already decisions on the most contentious issues tend to stall in the Council because many of the EU's key policy decisions require unanimity among the national capitals.
The new language also addresses Medicaid, the federally backed healthcare program for the poor and disabled that is one of the most contentious aspects of the bill.
Third and most contentious, EEA members (and Switzerland) must observe almost all the EU's rules and regulations if they are to keep access to the single market.
A disagreement between London and Dublin over plans for the Irish border have become the most contentious issue in negotiations with the EU over a divorce deal.
When you read your newsfeed, you might think the country is irreparably divided on immigration, and that this is our number one most contentious and divisive issue.
But the most contentious part of the dispute is over the minutiae of music licensing, an area in which the Zappa estate has long taken controversial stances.
A European consensus on migration — one of the bloc's most contentious issues — is thought to have helped German Chancellor Angela Merkel avert a political crisis at home.
Trump has promised to repeal President Obama's most contentious environmental policies, like limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, in line with the oil industry's stance.
It is not clear how Mr. Deal will assess the bill, which does not include some of the most contentious wording that appeared in a previous draft.
The Food and Drug Administration has relaxed the guidelines for taking a pill that induces abortion, reviving one of the most contentious issues of the abortion debate.
LeBron James is facing one of the most contentious moments in his career after making controversial comments about the NBA's response to the protests in Hong Kong.
Probably his most contentious role was as chairman of a committee created in 1996 to mediate the claims of Holocaust victims and their families against Swiss banks.
Most contentious, the European Union wants Kabul to take back its nationals who are not considered refugees, although EU donor money is not linked to such demands.
Jay Bevington of Deloitte, a consultancy, says there is a temptation to leave the most important—and therefore the most contentious—items until the end of the meeting.
In the past century, many of the most contentious important politics in the United States have been spurred by the movement of African Americans out of the South.
Johnson has 68 days to convince the EU to give him a new Brexit deal, with neither side so far willing to compromise on the most contentious issues.
If Trump wins the nomination, his willingness to raise Clinton's gender and other issues could make for one of the most contentious general election campaigns in recent history.
Outside the courtroom, the controversy over CARRP contains some of the most contentious issues of the Trump era, namely immigration, national security and allegations of anti-Muslim discrimination.
Despite Gorsuch's textualist leanings, his questions in Harris Funeral Homes hewed to the most contentious issues that arise in the trans rights context: bathrooms, dress codes, and sports.
Why it matters: The court will likely hand down rulings on some of the most contentious issues in American politics just a few weeks before the Democratic convention.
Perhaps the most contentious decision reflected in the new DNC list was to not reappoint Zogby, an outspoken advocate for rights for Palestinians, to the DNC's executive committee.
With New START set to expire in 2021, Kristensen says that the most contentious issue is likely to be whether it will be extended for another five years.
Many found the timing of Comey's vague announcement a bit perplexing, given it came 11 days before the most contentious presidential election in at least half a century.
It is the most contentious part of the deal for British lawmakers, who fear it could ultimately slice Northern Ireland off from the rest of the United Kingdom.
Four years ago, the fight for the Working Families nomination was among the most contentious moments in the contest between Mr. Cuomo and his primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout.
House panel hones in on postal service reform: One of Congress's most contentious committees is pushing toward a rare bipartisan victory: reforming the United States Postal Service (USPS).
Many of the most contentious measures, however, are blocked in the Senate while record low wages growth and lacklustre nominal growth have badly crimped the government's revenue take.
The 2628-mile span is the most contentious segment of the 28503,22019-mile pipeline route, because a local tribe says the pipeline threatens its drinking water supplies there.
One of the most contentious suggestions would mandate a certain amount of drug company rebates be applied to what people pay at the point of sale at pharmacies.
The 1.25-mile span is the most contentious segment of the 1,170-mile pipeline route, because a local tribe says the pipeline threatens its drinking water supplies there.
Instead, it fed a revolt within Mr. Faymann's Social Democrats, and he resigned suddenly last Monday, weakening the Social Democrats before the most contentious presidential race since 1986.
It would determine which topics were the most contentious, do some initial research on them, and even assign reporters to follow up and put together modules about them.
On abortion, still the most contentious issue before the Court, Kavanaugh had the same problem that all recent Republican appointees have had: conservatives want to overturn Roe v.
Mr. Ryan has openly clashed with Mr. Trump on his most contentious proposals, but has agreed to row behind the Trump candidacy for the sake of party unity.
The most contentious fights over the plan, which will see its next draft in the coming months, surround proposals for lease sales in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
There's an estimated 11 million of them in the US. What the political fight looks like: Illegal immigration has been arguably the most contentious fight of the landscape.
The Trump administration has been criticized by Canadian and Mexican officials for not yet presenting some of the most contentious issues in NAFTA, including content rules of origin.
The bill's existence will further fuel what has been for months a simmering policy and political fight over one of the most contentious ideas Washington has ever considered.
Delegates finally agreed on a set of fundamental transparency measures, but only after an all-nighter in which they put off the most contentious issues until next year.
The most contentious fight is in Westminster, in the heart of London, where new phone kiosks are being squished between construction barriers and bus stops on crowded streets.
The Taliban demand for the release of 6003,000 prisoners as a confidence-building measure has been the most contentious part of the U.S.-Taliban deal signed in February.
One of the most contentious issues in the reform plan is Macron's attempt to encourage French workers to keep working until 64, past the retirement age of 62.
After nearly two years, Facebook is almost done setting up its Oversight Board, an independent panel with the power to override Facebook's most contentious decisions on controversial content.
Soleimani has been the architect of many of Iran's most contentious foreign policy issues, and he and the IRGC-QF are responsible for the deaths of many Americans.
Ukraine is worried that one of Europe's most contentious energy developments will leave its gas pipeline vulnerable to a Russian attack, according to a leading political risk expert.
"Far too often the focus has been only on the most contentious fights -- the things that have divided people and sent them into their entrenched corners," she continued.
Among the most contentious of the Obama rules was one that strengthened a provision in the law requiring schools to test at least 95 percent of their students.
A schedule for the fifth round seen by Reuters showed that negotiators would discuss one of the most contentious issues over the four final days, beginning on Saturday.
The Democratic-controlled House wants to pass a stopgap measure to extend the spending deadline into late November, though the most contentious issues could need even more time.
The concerns focus on a panel studying biotechnology, a booming area of business, including in the food industry, and one of the most contentious scientific issues in Washington.
As soon as the president taps whoever Anthony Kennedy&aposs replacement will be, you are going to witness the single most contentious, nasty, vicious, dirty propaganda, character assassination campaign.
The venue for one of Brazil's most contentious corporate battles this year, a 22,000-square-meter convention center known as Riocentro, hosted boxing matches at the 2016 Olympic Games.
The most contentious thing he said was a seemingly obligatory shot at the media — "how nasty, how mean, and how fake" — met with boos from some of the attendees.
Islamophobia and transphobia are two of the most contentious social issues of the moment, and they've combined to spawn one of most viral memes of the year so far.
Then there's role of the media, now one of the most contentious topics and tools in American politics as "fake news" and "alternative facts" take root as common phrases.
The governor's race in Georgia has been one of the most contentious and closely watched in the country, with the candidates clashing over voting rights up to Election Day.
Election Day is today, November 6th, in the United States, and the 2018 midterm elections are likely going to be some of the most contentious elections in recent history.
The most contentious issue is a proposal to restrict welfare payments to non-British citizens of European Union countries, who have the right to live and work in Britain.
The new president declared a "reset" in relations with Russia and froze missile-defense plans for Eastern Europe, which was perhaps the most contentious issue between Washington and Moscow.
The issue of gun ownership has become one of the most contentious in U.S. politics with conservatives adamantly opposed to any limitations on their constitutional rights to own firearms.
As Vice Chairman of the Budget Committee, Dr. Price and I spent many late nights working through some of the most contentious and complicated questions regarding our nation's spending.
Trump's immigration policies — also including actions taken against states and cities that protect illegal immigrants, intensified deportation efforts and limits on legal immigration — have been among his most contentious.
Instead, it was more evidence of Trump's long-standing habit of entrenching at his most contentious moments, giving little to his critics in the hopes of invigorating his supporters.
The treatment of the roughly one million Rohingya in Myanmar has emerged as the country's most contentious human rights issue as it transitions from decades of harsh military rule.
Arizona is a state with a heavy immigrant population, and it was ground zero for some of the most contentious crackdowns on illegal immigration over the last six years.
Most contentious is that the bill allows producers to use QR codes that direct consumers to a website with the GMO label, rather than, y'know, an actual GMO label.
Castro told me he wants the party to look deeply into some of Trump's most contentious relationships, especially the trade war with China and growing ties with Saudi Arabia.
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.
Trump's immigration policies - also including actions taken against states and cities that protect illegal immigrants, intensified deportation efforts and limits on legal immigration - have been among his most contentious.
Perhaps Judge Moro's most contentious move also came in March 2016, when he released the transcript of an intercepted conversation between Mr. da Silva and his successor, Ms. Rousseff.
Autos are expected to be one of the most contentious parts of the talks because the sector accounts for the lion's share of the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico.
Through advertisements featuring images and messages like these, Russian operatives co-opted some of the most contentious causes in America, in order to breed strife, rather than make progress.
It's worth noting, however, that while Congress has a deal of sorts, funding for the most contentious part of appropriations — President Donald Trump's border wall — still hasn't been finalized.
Not since sexual assault accusations against the former White House lawyer resulted in the most contentious Senate confirmation process in years have the president's core supporters been more energized.
The question of Israeli building in areas beyond the lines of the 1967 war was one of the most contentious in Mr. Netanyahu's difficult relationship with President Barack Obama.
After the fight over the "border adjustment" tax, the most contentious topic is the deductibility of net interest expenses, the idea Mr. Moore had unsuccessfully proposed to Mr. Trump.
One of the most contentious issues kicked down the road was a set of rules on carbon trading, which would allow countries and companies to trade on emissions reductions.
She said Monday's event was one of the most contentious she had attended and explained the crowd's reaction by pointing back to Mr. Wilson's 2009 interruption of Mr. Obama.
The mayors of Baltimore, Charlotte and Salt Lake City wrestle with some of the most contentious issues dominating national policy conversations, including health care and improving public school systems.
It was unapologetically nationalistic, revived the rhetoric of race-baiting organizations from the America First Committee to the 1968 Nixon campaign, and moderated none of Trump's most contentious policies.
Always at the center of the most contentious social issues, Schlafly was one of those people who, whether loved or hated, was almost always thought of in emotional terms.
In his weekly news conference on Tuesday, Abdul-Mahdi said he expected a vote to take place on Thursday, however the most contentious ministries could be delayed to next week.
Instead of running as an incumbent, he's opted to run for the Utah House, in a district that spans much of southern Utah and its most contentious federal land holdings.
The struggle to get NASA the funding it needs to return to the moon by 2024 will play against the backdrop of the most contentious presidential elections in a generation.
But the court did not appear to be in a hurry to review those precedents on Tuesday and avoided some of the most contentious legal areas related to reproductive rights.
The treatment of the roughly one million Muslim Rohingya has emerged as majority Buddhist Myanmar's most contentious rights issue as it makes a transition from decades of harsh military rule.
Paris (CNN)After one of the most contentious elections in modern French history, Emmanuel Macron is the new President of France -- and he has a whole lot to worry about.
The show gives Jacqueline a new sense of purpose Let's start with Jacqueline's storyline, the show's most contentious element to date and the root of its poisonous episode-length clapback.
Here's a fun fact on the eve of perhaps the most contentious election in recent American history: It's totally possible to hack a voting machine and alter its final tally.
In less than two years, China has turned seven reefs into seven military bases in the South China Sea, one of the most contentious bodies of water in the world.
Presidential rival Kamala Harris, a U.S. senator from California and a woman of color, challenged Biden on the issue during the first Democratic debate, leading to its most contentious exchange.
Warring creditor groups in Puerto Rico's ongoing debt restructuring have reached an agreement that could resolve one of the most contentious disputes in the more than $70 billion bankruptcy case.
Levin said he would be pressing Freeland about labor standards and rules governing content in autos made in North America - two of the most contentious topics at the NAFTA talks.
Even in states overwhelmingly controlled by one party or the other, debates over gun control or gun rights routinely rank among the most contentious and ponderous of the legislative session.
Even in states overwhelmingly controlled by one party or the other, debates over gun control or gun rights routinely rank among the most contentious and ponderous of the legislative session.
In both of his 85033 statements as FBI director, Comey went against Justice Department norms and caused serious disruption to one of the most contentious presidential elections in recent history.
WASHINGTON — The Senate will grapple this week with perhaps the most contentious issue in the food industry: whether the government should require mandatory labeling on foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.
"Far too often, the focus has been only on the most contentious fights, the things that have divided people and sent them into their entrenched corners," DeVos said on Sunday.
The 6003-member oil cartel is not scheduled to make a decision until Friday, but the gathering is already shaping up to be one of the most contentious in years.
Trump's three successive moves to block entry into the United States by people from several predominantly Muslim countries have been among his most contentious acts since taking office in January.
OPEC is not scheduled to make a decision over production policy until Friday, though the gathering is already shaping up to be one of the most contentious meetings in years.
Since immigration is likely to be the most contentious topic of the debates, it might be useful to have someone who understands this issue and can ask the right questions.
Raheem Sterling, 23, ranks among the most contentious, skilled and expensive of players in English soccer — a game that conjures a national near-zealotry that other sports can rarely match.
Our latest thought-starter explores what might be the most contentious and core question out there about guns in America: Do they actually make people and their loved ones safer?
The most contentious of the election bills sought to purge voters from a mailing list of recipients of mail-in ballots if they failed to vote in two election cycles.
Most movies about comedians present them as harsh and brooding collectors of neuroses, but Coogan and Reilly even at their most contentious present Laurel and Hardy as gentle, flawed figures.
The most contentious aspect of the legislation is a clause allowing same-sex couples to adopt the biological child of the other partner - a compromise deal may require ditching it.
The Trump factor Members have their own answers as to what is holding them back from sometimes even debating -- not to mention solving -- some of the country's most contentious issues.
The hearing promises to be among the most contentious of all the confirmation grillings, so The New York Times is reaching out to readers: What should senators ask Mr. Pruitt?
The treatment of approximately 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya has emerged as majority Buddhist Myanmar's most contentious human rights issue as it makes a transition from decades of harsh military rule.
So the Court will probably hear the Gee case, and the decision will likely come down next June, the month when the Court ordinarily hands down its most contentious opinions.
The most contentious issue in the debate over New York's teacher evaluations is whether they should consider how students perform on state standardized tests for third through eighth graders. Gov.
That call to arms put pressure on other Democrats to put up a fight against Trump's nominees and led to one of the most contentious nomination process in recent memory.
It'd be great to live in a world where everyone is nice to each other, and we can all engage in rational, polite conversations about even the most contentious issues.
The most contentious section of the law, Article 13, says platforms can be sued if they don't make "best efforts" to stop copyrighted content from being uploaded onto their sites.
For months, the American public — willingly or not — has been subjected to a series of barn burner moments that have made this election cycle one of the most contentious in history.
Trump now faces House probes into his businesses and most contentious policies, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating possible collusion between Trump's election campaign team and Russian officials in 2016.
He and Huffman, Reddit's original founders, rejoined the company during one of its most contentious and volatile periods — after the departure of interim CEO Ellen Pao in the summer of 2015.
Day Three: July 20, 2016 One of the most contentious platforms of Donald J. Trump's campaign is undoubtedly the wall he's proposed to build to divide the United States from Mexico.
But if no policy remains in place, one wonders why a limelight-shy Supreme Court would care to dive headlong into one of the most contentious issues of Mr Trump's presidency.
Particularly on the most contentious issues of the day — the Iran deal, Syria, the wider Arab Spring — he has been central to both shaping policies and even more crucially, communicating them.
In one of the most contentious points, Cameron has proposed that people coming to Britain from the EU must live in the country for four years before qualifying for state benefits.
Hours after engaging in their most contentious debate to date, Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders reconvened on Monday in a less charged setting to honor the memory of the Rev.
Lawmakers who opposed the directive attempted to remove the most contentious pieces of the legislation before holding a final vote on Tuesday but were overruled by just five members of Parliament.
"I've said before that repeal of the Durbin amendment was the most contentious part of the bill among Republicans," committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said in a statement to CNBC.
DataTrek Research's Nicholas Colas believes the upcoming round of quarterly numbers will be the most contentious in about three years, and he's worried they could spark the next stock market downturn.
That's why the news of actor Chad Michael Murray's latest creative undertaking couldn't come at a better time than three days after the most contentious presidential election in modern American history.
Draft rules still left in the EU pipeline are among the most contentious, with even the European Central Bank expressing concerns over a proposal to rein in risky trading at banks.
Thursday's debate at Brooklyn's Navy Yard, the ninth this cycle, was the most contentious yet, and it came just days before the make-or-break New York primary on April 19.
In the wake of the 2014 "Occupy Central" pro-democracy protests in which tens of thousands took to the streets, it is the territory's most contentious vote since the 1997 handover.
Scott Pruitt resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, right as federal investigators considered their would-be 19th probe into his conduct as the agency's most contentious leader.
With a Republican-led Congress and a Republican in the White House, this first time in decades the CRA could be used successfully to repeal the last administration's most contentious rules.
The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
The most contentious feature of the law requires a license to take any artwork that is more than 70 years old and valued at more than 300,000 euros out of Germany.
Immigration and other thorny issues But even if they can resolve those disputes, the most contentious and emotional issue they want to resolve could still stifle a deal later in December.
The Hill's Tim Cama has the story: The most contentious piece of last year's proposal is to allow drilling off the Atlantic coast, which has never seen drilling beyond exploratory wells.
That could change the way doctors flex their muscle on one of the most contentious issues in American politics, Kaiser Health News and Vice report from an American Medical Association conference.
In all, said Lori A. Ringhand, a law professor at the University of Georgia, the hearings were the most contentious since 1991, when Justice Clarence Thomas faced accusations of sexual harassment.
And in Texas, where some of the country's most contentious bills on gay and transgender rights have been brought up, the Legislature is not scheduled to meet at all in 2018.
It also highlighted some of the most contentious issues that have dogged Mr. Moore, a staunch evangelical Christian who has condemned same-sex relations, at the last rally before Tuesday's voting.
Clinton and Sanders have sparred over how best to curb the risky behavior that caused the 2008 crisis, leading to some of the most contentious exchanges in their party's presidential debates.
The company shed ancillary businesses and tweaked its central feed to highlight virality, turning Twitter into a bruising barroom brawl featuring the most contentious political and cultural fights of the day.
Immigration has been one of Italy's most contentious issues and fueled the rise of Salvini's League party, which ruled in coalition with the 5-Star Movement from mid-2018 until August.
This year begins with the air-strike killing of Iran's military leader, devastating bushfires, and impeachment, and one of the most contentious elections of our times looms in the near future.
Even on some of the most contentious issues, such as the thorny debate between religious liberty and LGBT discrimination, Mormons have demonstrated an interest in working to find a middle ground.
President Donald Trump's decision to press ahead with one of his most contentious campaign promises will likely galvanize defenders of free trade in the long run, according to one market strategist.
In fact, before George W. Bush, one of the most contentious Cabinet votes was in 1989, when the Senate rejected George H.W. Bush's first choice for defense secretary, John G. Tower.
While she's largely been quiet on Trump, she voted with Republicans on all the most contentious issues — from the House's Obamacare repeal effort to the Republican immigration bill and tax cuts.
Zuckerberg has become extremely careful about what he says publicly and, according to the profile, is trying to wrap his head around some of humanity's deepest and most contentious issues. 2.
Pelosi's predicament this week followed a familiar pattern that overshadowed former Republican House Speaker John Boehner: How to manage one party with a diverse set of beliefs about the most contentious issues.
Some Brexiteers argue that it keeps Northern Ireland aligned with the rest of the EU indefinitely and it's been one of the most contentious issues in the entire Brexit process so far.
The volume of conversation — including from the candidates themselves — provided MIT with a treasure trove of data to mine on how Americans discussed one of the most contentious presidential races in history.
But those 27 words are among the most cryptic and divisive in the United States Constitution — and they are at the heart of one of the most contentious debates in American politics.
Yet it was in this far-flung American territory that last month the two most contentious issues facing Pope Francis—the scandal of clerical sex abuse and a rebellion by traditionalists—intertwined.
LONDON (Reuters) - Progress towards oil-market rebalancing and the need for an extension of production cuts by OPEC and non-OPEC countries has become the most contentious issue in the oil market.
Spanish voters go to the polls this weekend in one of the most contentious elections in decades, with at least five parties in with a chance of being in the next government.
News reports based on leaks from inside the talks process suggest the two sides have been inching towards an interim understanding, despite remaining far apart on some of the most contentious issues.
In refusing these requests, Obama effectively adopted the approach of his predecessor, which had led to some of the most contentious political and legal battles during the Bush administration over government secrecy.
Sanders highlighted his own rise in opinion polls and showed a new level of fight at the most contentious of the four debates in the race to find a Democratic presidential nominee.
Tammy Brawner, a former Harlem Globetrotter, and Darius filed final divorce docs Monday in L.A. -- and in their most contentious issue ... custody of 3-year-old Zoey ... Tammy's come out on top.
"I haven't been here for 20 years, but I'm majority leader," McCarthy shot back in what veteran Capitol Hill reporters said was the most contentious news briefing they had seen in years.
This latter measure has proven most contentious in the Senate, according to reports, especially among Republican men, who were holding up Senate negotiations over the chamber's own version of the #MeToo legislation.
Soon, those forces could band together once again to mount a lawsuit, potentially setting up months, if not years, of further legal wrangling over one of the web's most contentious, unresolved issues.
Two of the most contentious issues left open for negotiation relate to changes in China's intellectual property regime as well as a call for structural changes related to China's state-owned industries.
But in the longer term, the battle is really about the future of a state that has become the epicenter of some of the most contentious political fights of the last decade.
HERE COMES KEYSTONE: The White House is preparing to formally approve the Keystone XL pipeline, setting off another major political fight over one of the most contentious energy projects in recent history.
But it's also the case that in many of the most contentious issues, the people have reasoned constitutional judgments, and the Court just comes in and says the people are in error.
Davis was a polarizing figure who was quick to evade type, but he was also a trailblazer whose story serves as a precedent for some of today's brightest and most contentious stars.
Immigration from the EU is one of the most contentious issues because the economy relies on imported labor but many British voters are angry over what they consider to be uncontrolled immigration.
Litt had been pushing Taubman Centers, a shopping-mall operator, to explore strategic alternatives as well, and that ultimately turned into one of the most contentious proxy battles of the 2017 season.
They should be a welcome sight for the next president, who will need to quickly heal the nation and shift to governing after one of the most contentious elections in modern history.
In the most contentious of these cases so far, a police officer named Ryan Pownall stopped a 30-year-old African-American man named David Jones, ostensibly for riding a dirt bike.
In signing the bill, one of the most contentious that came before the Texas Legislature this year, Mr. Abbott said it was necessary to ensure the safety of residents of the state.
Mr. Trump issued a new and narrower travel ban, affecting six countries, on March 6, trying to satisfy the courts by removing some of the most contentious elements of the original version.
Though Scene and Herd complied with Gupta's request that the posts be removed, their ability to remain anonymous — one of the most contentious points of the case — is viewed as a victory.
Since its inception, the Bureau of Land Management, the oil industry and environmental groups have wrestled over the rule in several courts, which ultimately halted its most contentious aspects from taking effect.
The status of Jerusalem, which is home to holy sites for all three major monotheistic religions, is arguably one of the most contentious issues within peace deal negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
He also said that creating a worldwide market for emissions, which is a key element of the sixth article of the Paris accord, remained one of the most contentious issues for negotiators.
"It's now clear that the most contentious question in Congress is one that's been dormant in legislative fights for years: whether or not to cut legal immigration," my colleague Dara Lind explained.
ONE of the most contentious cases the Supreme Court will hear in its term beginning October 2nd is the enticingly named Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Division, Charlie Craig, and David Mullins.
Regardless of their true number, our political debate places Muslim Americans at the nexus of some of today's most contentious issues: US foreign policy, national security, terrorism, inclusion, religious liberty, and American identity.
Officials have made little progress on the most contentious files since the talks started in August, and the talks look set to drag on well beyond March, when negotiators had hoped to finish.
These include some of the most contentious and headline-grabbing patent disputes in the US. There's the 2013 case where a jury awarded a patent troll $2.3 million, a decision Gilstrap later overturned.
UNTIL the first days after his inauguration, Donald Trump's adversaries and even some of his supporters thought that, once in power, he would back away from many of his most contentious policy proposals.
Canada's supply management system, which sets production quotas in addition to limiting imports, was one of most contentious issues for the United States and Canada in the renegotiation of the multilateral trade agreement.
This will be the most contentious and difficult year yet on college campuses, said Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the country's most prominent campus free-speech advocacy group.
He will also find himself meeting President Donald Trump, one of the most contentious leaders to represent the U.S. at the G-7 in years, to discuss a potential post-Brexit trade deal.
According to Luis González García of Matrix Chambers, a legal-services firm, they are likely to become "the most contentious issue" in Britain's re-establishment of its status as an independent WTO member.
Apple officially stopped selling the 12-inch MacBook today, a computer that hasn't had an update since June 2017 and that is also maybe one of the most contentious Macs in Apple's lineup.
Trashing the Justice and FBI rule books in the interest of "openness" is likely to put the FBI front and center in one of the most contentious presidential races in recent US history.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the likely event that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed by the U.S. Senate this weekend he will soon be wading into some of the nation's most contentious issues.
Family reunification is one of the most contentious issues in exploratory talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) with the Greens, who back a more liberal immigration approach.
It's also notable for private equity buffs (yes, such people exist), as Huntsman was at the center of what arguably was the most contentious M&A failure failure of the financial crisis era.
Since British lawmakers voted down the withdrawal agreement last month, parliament has instructed May to replace its most contentious element — an insurance policy covering the possible future arrangements for the border in Ireland.
The issue of Jewish settlements in occupied territory is one of the most contentious of the conflict and a main reason why the peace process based on the 1993 accords has run aground.
Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), which passed 28500-6900, had been stalled and mired in controversy for years, but lawmakers in recent months dropped or scaled back many of the most contentious, sweeping measures.
The bill's most contentious measure imposes a new limit on price increases in Medicare's prescription drug program, called Part D, forcing drug companies to pay money back if prices rise faster than inflation.
The move brings a familiar face back to the television news landscape during one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in memory, and one for which CNN has aggressively devoted resources to covering.
One of the most contentious debates in information security has been around the Wassenaar Arrangement—a trade pact geared at regulating the flow of conventional arms and dual-use technologies to repressive regimes.
But it was not clear how some of the most contentious matters — like narrowing pay gaps between long-term employees and more recent hires, and G.M. commitments to domestic production — had been resolved.
It provided the most contentious moments of a 2017 race for City Hall that, with few established political figures running and only one Republican candidate, has at times struggled to find a pulse.
Eighteen progressive organizations including major supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are launching a unity pledge in the middle of the most contentious week of the primary between the two progressive candidates.
Trump&aposs revised ban eliminated some of the original&aposs most contentious provisions, including making clear that those who held visas at the time of the signing could continue to enter the country.
By moving swiftly into the most contentious midterm races, these candidates aim to cement their party in forceful opposition to Mr. Trump and to align it unswervingly with minority communities and young people.
Gates' second day of questioning could very well become the most contentious day of the trial, as Manafort's lawyers are likely to get their chance to cross-examine him later in the day.
Talks to renegotiate the 1994 pact have stalled as Canada and Mexico are at loggerheads with the United States over some of the most contentious proposals its negotiators have put on the table.
The dispute involving the regulator, PG&E and companies from which it buys power has been one the most contentious fights so far in the San Francisco-headquartered utility's bankruptcy, launched in January.
Though it's one of the most contentious issues in American politics, there's a galling lack of public understanding about late-term abortions, and that misunderstanding was on display at the final presidential debate Wednesday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's leader has said he will dissolve Parliament on Saturday, paving the way for the most contentious general elections in the country since it gained independence more than six decades ago.
Without even getting into their outstanding deliveries, "JUNKY" is arguably the best Brockhampton track based solely on its lyrical address toward two of the most contentious topics in hip-hop: homosexuality and rape culture.
That means lawmakers must delay voting on one of the most contentious issues in Washington: the attempt by Republicans to override President Obama's veto of a bill to repeal his signature health care law.
ONE of the most contentious cases in Israel's military history reached its verdict on January 4th when three military judges found a serving soldier, Sergeant Elor Azaria, guilty of manslaughter for killing a Palestinian.
But the most contentious moments between Democrats and Republicans on the committee were about racism — or rather, whether it was appropriate to use the word "racist" to describe first Trump himself, and then Rep.
Amending the charter to remove a dominant political role for the military has been one of the most contentious issues facing Myanmar as it emerges from nearly half a century of strict army rule.
The mayor's most contentious battle over Vision Zero was with the union that represents the city's bus drivers after several drivers who hit pedestrians were charged under the city's new right-of-way law.
The decision remains one of the most contentious in American history, with many arguing that the bombs were not necessary to win the war – and that they did not, in fact, end the war.
The talks follow a round in Mexico this month where the three sides failed to make major breakthroughs on the most contentious issues, prompting the Trump administration to complain about the lack of progress.
Among the most contentious and bitter elections in modern history, and with a president who doesn't hold back his thoughts on almost anything, it's not surprising that politics found their way into the mall.
What really happened: The Force is one of the most contentious aspects of the Star Wars universe; some people can use it to do things like move objects, or to sense and influence others.
The trip will also bring him face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the most contentious moment in US-China relations for decades as a trade war rages between the two powers.
And Hoyer pointed out that even ObamaCare — among the most contentious new laws in recent decades — has won strong public backing after the benefits kicked in and then Republicans threatened to take them away.
Whatever his motivation, Justice Kennedy is likely to be the central player in a number of the most contentious disputes he and his eight colleagues will hear when they return from their summer break.
WASHINGTON — The person at the center of defusing arguably the most contentious issue facing Democrats on the eve of their convention in Philadelphia was not a Hillary Clinton adviser or even a party operative.
The problem for Johnson is that the withdrawal agreement contains the most contentious part of the exit deal — an insurance policy to prevent border controls between EU member Ireland and British province Northern Ireland.
On Thursday night, he focused on immigration at an event in Arizona and assailed Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County — one of the state's most contentious political figures — as being an "un-American" bully.
Once again, Donald Trump offered the most contentious target, thanks to an embrace of import tariffs that challenges 26 years of economic theory and another violent incident at a rally that had racial overtones.
Protests quickly formed outside the high court as debate raged on cable news and social media over a confirmation process that promises to possibly be the most contentious in the court's 229-year history.
The project, called the TurboVote Challenge, comes during one of the most contentious and unpredictable U.S. presidential races in many years, marked by strong participation in both Republican and Democratic primary elections and caucuses.
" The debate's most contentious moment came when she asked Bloomberg if would release the women who have made accusations from the nondisclosure agreements they signed, "so we can hear their side of the story?
" In perhaps the most contentious case, Maryland's moderate Republican governor, Larry Hogan, is engaged in a bitter battle with the Democrat-controlled Legislature over the state's education goals, which a spokesman called "a farce.
The wall, a Trump campaign promise that Republicans have tucked into border security funding, has been by far the most contentious roadblock in the negotiations to keep the remainder of the government fully funded.
The most contentious of the three was Whitefish Energy, a small Montana firm that appeared to get a major contract out of nowhere, with few employees and very little experience of large-scale work.
Come Tuesday, the public will also be reintroduced to one of the most memorable Clinton impeachment figures — Kenneth Starr, who oversaw the most contentious parts of the yearslong probe into the Democratic president's behavior.
The EU has repeatedly said the Withdrawal Agreement is the only deal on the table and May's spokesman said Britain would not be seeking to renegotiate the most contentious part - the Irish border plan.
Even though she has not played a central role in the House's most contentious and consequential investigations, Ms. Maloney's supporters had argued that a woman should be among the lawmakers leading the impeachment inquiry.
The case has cast a glare on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in no small part because Gorakhpur is the home turf of one of Mr. Modi's most contentious allies, Yogi Adityanath.
Mr. Tillerson showed a deep familiarity with many of the most contentious issues in American foreign policy, including the rules governing transactions with the Cuban government and the outlines of the Iran nuclear deal.
A report in the Globe and Mail said that the U.S. dropped demands for the inclusion of 50 percent U.S. content in automobiles, which is seen as the most contentious issue in the talks.
Jemele Hill has been a sports reporter since 1997, but she truly became a household name in 2017 when she was entangled in the one of the most contentious political debates in sports history.
And the debate over Medicare for All has been one of the most contentious of the primary, with Medicare for All being the plan most popular with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
The bill, which would not have increased overall legal immigration levels, had seemed like it would be a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on one of the most contentious topics of the Trump administration.
They got there by compromising on what has been the most contentious issue in the surprise billing legislation: how much doctors will get paid when they provide emergency out-of-network care to patients.
The South China Sea is one of the most contentious — and valuable — pieces of maritime real estate in the world, with $4.5 trillion worth of trading passing through its busy shipping lanes each year.
Starting today, Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer versions 7, 8, 9 and 10 on most operating systems, its biggest step yet toward phasing out one of the most contentious pieces of software ever written.
Yet, although "virtual allies" by sharing a common ally, South Korean and Japanese relations remain mired in history, despite a historic agreement on the most contentious comfort women issue by the governments in December 2015.
"Lolita," the story of the relationship between an older man and a 12-year-old girl, was one of the most contentious books of the postwar, dividing opinion about whether it was pornography or literature.
Hours later, Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, summoned the national defence council and ordered the supreme court to reverse the most contentious parts of its earlier announcement (exposing the court's independence for the fiction it is).
The stepchild adoption provision has proved to be the most contentious issue both in Parliament and among the public, where support for that part of the measure is considerably lower than support for civil unions.
The proposed changes would address the most contentious part of the divorce deal - an insurance policy aimed at avoiding controls on the sensitive border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
The Republican primary debate on Saturday night was perhaps the most contentious face-off of the 2016 campaign, as the candidates shouted at, accused and insulted each other, while enduring frequent booing from the audience.
The reform toughens sanctions for theft and burglary and limits publication of wiretaps in criminal investigations, but the most contentious aspect involves the statute of limitations, which imposes deadlines on courts to complete legal proceedings.
Ireland's economy would be hit hard by a disorderly Brexit and the most contentious part of May's deal is an insurance plan aimed at preventing a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.
Senate leaders have decided to address the most contentious issue head on -- they plan to remove the waiver option for community rating, which bans insurers from charging higher premiums to those with pre-existing conditions.
Eight days of talks in Mexico's capital failed to make headway on new rules governing the content of products made in North America, which has been one of the most contentious issues in the talks.
Amazon's role as both a platform for merchants and a seller on that platform has become one of the most contentious areas of the business, with the Federal Trade Commission also looking at the practice.
No matter where you come down on the most contentious issues at the intersection of privacy and gun policy, mental-health reforms could and should still be part of the solution to mass gun violence.
The backstop, an insurance policy to keep the border open between the British province and Ireland after Britain leaves the EU, has proven the most contentious element of divorce negotiations between London and the bloc.
One of the most contentious features of the felony murder bill is that it is retroactive, meaning that people currently serving life sentences for felony murder could petition the court to have their sentence reviewed.
Negotiations over the Homeland Security bill, the most contentious of the group, have essentially paused as both chambers wait to see the outcome of the Tuesday meeting between Mr. Trump, Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer.
Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, said recently that Britain should come up with a plan in the next 30 days if it wants to replace the Irish backstop, the most contentious part of the withdrawal agreement.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to tack back-and-forth on perhaps the most contentious issue of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial — whether the Senate will allow new witnesses to testify in the case.
Story at a glance Last night was perhaps the most contentious Democratic debate yet, no doubt fueled by the former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg taking the stage for the very first time.
Among the most contentious issues are the $5 billion President Trump requested to build his proposed border wall, plus another $3.6 billion to backfill military construction accounts he redirected toward the wall under emergency powers.
WASHINGTON — Since its creation in 2016, the House Judiciary Committee has served as the backdrop to debates over the most contentious issues in American history, including a woman's right to vote, immigration and civil rights.
Lawmakers are likely to move the bills in packages -- likely four at a time -- while leaving the most contentious elements in bills, like the Department of Homeland Security funding measure, to be negotiated over time.
BEIJING — For six decades, Chinese leaders have tried to put in place a sweeping civil code to explain the law on some of China's most contentious issues, including property rights, migrant workers, defamation and divorce.
The decision to upend the laws for a single tower — while Boston has 100 projects worth $9.2 billion under construction — has made the Winthrop Square development perhaps the most contentious on the rapidly changing skyline.
Split nearly evenly among Democrats, Republicans and independents, it has significant rural and Hispanic populations and has been ground zero for many of the nation's most contentious debates over guns, climate change, marijuana and more.
For Trump, hype has always been more important than the bottom line, and for Clinton anything that ties her opponent to the autocratic ruler of one of America's most contentious adversaries is an electoral boon.
The most contentious issue with this fight is the fact it will be fight for Canelo's WBC, The Ring magazine, and lineal title contested at a catchweight of 155lbs, well below the middleweight limit of 160lbs.
Technical discussions on one of the most contentious issues - U.S. demands for higher North American content in autos - made no progress after the U.S. official in charge of the issue unexpectedly returned to Washington for consultations.
Some Reddit users have since moved on to debating whether the site admins will ever get around to banning r/The_Donald, by far the largest and most contentious subreddit among the site's virulently pro-Trump subreddits.
While the SEC has fined other firms over order routing, experts say this appears to be the first time any regulator has waded into one of the most contentious strategies in the high-speed trading world.
Earlier, several EU leaders ruled out reopening the divorce deal to accommodate May's demands to change the most contentious part on the future border arrangements between EU member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.
"This will be one of the most contentious hearings we have seen since bank CEOs went to the Hill during the financial crisis," said Isaac Boltansky, an analyst at Washington, DC-based research firm Compass Point.
In fact, one of the most contentious debates in cosmology these days is centered around the unexpected way in which dwarf galaxies appear to become neatly aligned around larger host galaxies such as the Milky Way.
President Donald Trump's administration goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to defend the legality of his travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries, one of the most contentious actions of his presidency.
Feature As she campaigns to become only the second black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the California attorney general is trying to chart a middle course on the Democratic Party's most contentious issue: criminal justice.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Tuesday that it was open to changes to rules of origin for automobiles, one of the most contentious issues negotiators face in modernizing the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
One of the most contentious elements of Mr. Bloomberg's mayoralty was his support for the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, which allowed officers to routinely stop, question and search people on the street.
Migration controls are likely to form one of the most contentious negotiating points in talks with the EU on leaving the bloc, as Britain looks to tighten border controls without losing access the EU single market.
Merkel, who is seeking a fourth term, said on Monday that immigration and climate policy were the most contentious topics in the exploratory talks, which she hopes to advance to full-blown negotiations on Nov. 16.
The European Union and the U.S. have hammered out the most contentious issues in a pending transatlantic data flow agreement and a new draft is forthcoming, EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova told a European news outlet.
Kennedy sided with the court's liberal justices to strike down the most contentious pieces of a 2013 Texas law, marking the latest high-profile decision in which the Ronald Reagan appointee has stepped to the left.
Mexico and Canada have long demanded that the United States drop some of its most contentious ideas, including a so-called "sunset clause" to make NAFTA automatically expire if it is not renegotiated every five years.
Here was a man who had become the diplomatic face of two of America's most contentious involvements in the Muslim world in recent times, serving as the cleanup ambassador after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The most contentious part of the agreement is the mechanism for ending it: A collapse in talks on the future relationship would trigger a "backstop" where Britain might have to accept European rules and regulations indefinitely.
President Donald Trump just announced that the US will place tariffs on nearly all Chinese products headed toward America next month — a decision that brings his trade war with Beijing to its most contentious point yet.
Kavanaugh, tear down this wall," a fellow at the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Dale Chu, expressed hope that "one of the most contentious issues within education policy may once again have its day in court.
Their efforts were instrumental in getting approval for the airline aid, one of the most contentious parts of the $280 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which passed the House on Friday, in the Senate earlier this week.
The sex slave issue is one of the most contentious dividing Japan and South Korea, and the islets — known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan — lie at the center of a territorial dispute.
Here was a man who had become the diplomatic face of two of America's most contentious involvements in the Muslim world in recent times, serving as the cleanup ambassador after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
" After weeks of warm words and promises of a smooth transition in the wake of perhaps the most contentious presidential election in modern history, Trump accused Obama in a Wednesday morning tweet of throwing up "roadblocks.
We'll be watching closely tonight as Democrats make their case for the presidency in South Carolina, a week after their most contentious debate yet and just days after Mr. Sanders's strong showing in the Nevada caucuses.
Federal and state attorneys-general agreed on key principles for the laws, which fall under the responsibility of state and territory governments and which address the most contentious recommendations from a government inquiry into child abuse.
Robert E. Lee, and the issue of Virginia's many Confederate memorials has become one of the most contentious of the campaign, with Northam in favor of taking the statues down and Gillespie supporting leaving them up.
Since Ms. McCain, a conservative, joined as a co-host on "The View" in October of 2017, she has become its most polarizing and predictable figure, the common denominator in the show's most contentious round tables.
Purdue's request promises to be one of the most contentious of the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, which was filed in September to try to implement a settlement proposal it values at more than $10 billion.
The most contentious issues were elevated to the four corners (top Republican and Democrats on Senate and House Appropriations) late last week, and there are still issues that need to be closed out at that level.
From his border wall to the administration's decision to sunset DACA to the family separations at the border, Trump has forced Congress to address some of the most contentious immigration policies without much direction or planning.
He also said Britain would unlock fresh negotiations by offering to cover the cost of implementing a solution to the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland - one of the most contentious issues in the exit agreement.
The attack, which killed 14 people and wounded 50, is also a test for one of Putin's most contentious policies - his decision to launch a military intervention in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
Ten days before the event, Cleveland was still training police officers for duty at the convention, which is expected to draw 50,000 visitors as well as clamorous protests and crown the most contentious presidential candidate in memory.
King, a 19-year-old from Indiana, finished less than a second ahead of Yulia Efimova on Monday night in a match-up that became one of the most contentious in the 20163 Rio Olympics so far.
The legislation, the product of months of discussions, represents a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on one of the most contentious topics of the Trump administration, ultimately attracting 22 Republican cosponsors, according to a spokesperson for Rep.
Obama's critics have targeted a wide range of environmental regulations, but one of the most contentious is the Clean Power Plan, which sets state-by-state caps on greenhouse gas emissions for power plants burning fossil fuels.
At a joint news conference with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker late on Monday, May announced three documents aimed at addressing the most contentious part of the exit deal she agreed in November - the Irish backstop.
It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikeable presidential elections in recent memory.
The EU has refused to reopen the Brexit divorce deal, though May insists she can get legally binding changes to replace the most contentious parts of the Irish border 'backstop', the main hurdle to a Brexit deal.
Goodlatte, the author of the bill, has promised to drop its most contentious parts — a requirement to electronically verify the immigration status of everyone working in the US and a program to provide guest workers for agriculture.
If Tillerson isn't privy to the latest news about where the president stands on one of the most contentious foreign policy issues of the day, then how can he be an effective emissary on the president's behalf?
The problem for the next prime minister is that the withdrawal agreement contains the most contentious part of the exit deal — an insurance policy to prevent border controls between EU member Ireland and British province Northern Ireland.
Version 2.5 of the Despecialized Edition dials those changes back, and even removes the most contentious change of the entire trilogy — the addition of Hayden Christensen's version of Anakin Skywalker as the ghost at the Ewok feast.
At a joint news conference with E.U. Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker late on Monday, May announced three documents aimed at addressing the most contentious part of the exit deal she agreed in November - the Irish backstop.
" In his description of the area, he said: "It's easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world, and there's no hope -- none -- of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off.
He was instrumental in some of Trump's most contentious policy moves including the ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries, abandoning the Paris climate accord, tearing up international trade agreements and cracking down on illegal immigration.
Taken from an elevated vantage point, his photograph captures a horizon-to-horizon view of the flood lights that illuminate all 155 miles of one of the world's most contentious borders that divides South and North Korea.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A liberal coalition on Thursday started a campaign to label socially conservative organizations that oppose transgender rights as hate groups, ratcheting up the antagonism between opposing sides on one of America's most contentious debates.
The most contentious fight will likely be over any materials the White House tries to shield from public view by claiming executive privilege, a legal doctrine generally used to keep conversations between the president and advisers private.
How to manage the land border between EU-member Ireland and British-run Northern Ireland - including an emergency "backstop" solution to prevent the return of extensive controls - has proven the most contentious element of the divorce deal.
One of the most contentious issues is an American proposal to do away with a part of the pact known as Chapter 19, which allows Canada and Mexico to appeal America's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs.
One of the most contentious elements of Mr. Biden's record is his involvement in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which many Democrats revile for contributing to mass incarceration, especially of people of color.
But the EU's Brexit negotiators see a divorce deal with Britain as "very close", diplomatic sources said, a signal that a compromise might be in the making on the most contentious issue of the future Irish border.
But details about some of the most contentious issues in the negotiations have yet to emerge, including any G.M. commitments to expand domestic factory capacity or shift production to the United States from Mexico, both union priorities.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump goes on trial in the U.S. Senate this week on charges he abused his office and obstructed Congress, with one of the most contentious questions still unresolved - should senators hear from witnesses?
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Thursday's ruling, from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, was the first time that a federal circuit court had weighed in at this stage on one of the country's most contentious immigration issues.
British Prime Minister May signed up to three documents after last-ditch talks on Monday which she said were aimed at addressing the most contentious part of the divorce deal she agreed in November - the Irish backstop.
To culinary partisans, the butter-or-margarine question, which The New York Times called a "long-running debate" in a 1974 article, rubs up against Coke-or-Pepsi as among the most contentious dividers of our time.
Abortion has become one of the most contentious issues in states around the nation, with state legislatures like Missouri's, dominated by Republicans, approving strict new limits in recent months and those dominated by Democrats approving new protections.
Bernie Sanders met in the most contentious of the Democratic debates so far, with the presidential hopefuls trading blows on health care, Wall Street reform and Syria, and making it hard for the third participant, former Maryland Gov.
The search to fill the top administrative post in the West Wing comes as Democrats prepare to take control of the House of Representatives in January and begin investigating Trump's businesses and some of his most contentious policies.
Past US presidents have avoided visiting the Western Wall while in office because it happens to be at the center of one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: control over the holy sites of Jerusalem.
Facebook might be doing its best to stay out of political scandals in the latter half of 2018, but the company had a presence, front and center, at one of the most contentious Senate hearings in modern history.
But experts say that the actual concessions on one of the most contentious areas of the renegotiations are outweighed by the ramifications the hostile way in which the agreement was reached will have on the US–Canada relationship.
But this was premature because they had not reached agreement on the most contentious issue of all: who would be in charge of the sovereign council, the highest decision-making body that would oversee the move towards democracy.
In a 54-page ruling issued Thursday, the panel also unanimously agreed with a lower court's ruling regarding the 2017 state law on limiting cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, the most contentious of the three.
Instead, the opposite is more likely to happen—Clinton effectively locking up the Democratic nomination will push the election into its most contentious phase, where the legitimacy of her victories and her candidacy itself becomes a focal point.
In the midst of a messy Senate debate over immigration policy, it's now clear that the most contentious question in Congress is one that's been dormant in legislative fights for years: whether or not to cut legal immigration.
The European Union's Brexit negotiators see a divorce deal with Britain as "very close", diplomatic sources have told Reuters, signaling that a compromise might be in the making on the most contentious issue of the future Irish border.
In a last-ditch attempt to persuade skeptical Brexiteers to accept her deal, May traveled to Strasbourg Monday night and won legally binding assurances from the EU over the most contentious part of the deal, the Irish backstop.
But after weeks of defending the reforms against opposition attack after the government admitted some supporting data was flawed, Abe confirmed on Thursday that one of the most contentious parts of the package would be dropped for now.
The congressional debate over transgender service, shaping up to be the most contentious issue on the annual policy bill, is one of several avenues that opponents of barring transgender individuals from serving are exploring to fight Trump's memorandum.
But the compromise — which had to be agreed to unanimously by the 28 European Union states — was reached after some of the most contentious provisions were scrapped or delayed, raising doubts about the effectiveness of the new measures.
Britain's commitment to payments into the EU budget - which officials in the bloc estimate to reach around 60 billion euros - are shaping up to be one of the first, and possibly most contentious, parts of the divorce talks.
One of the most contentious sanctuary laws is state Senate Bill 54, which among other things, bars local authorities from asking about the immigration status of people during routine interactions or participating in most federal immigration enforcement actions.
Perhaps the most contentious and unabating debate within "the Arab world" concerns "the Arab spring"—rather, it concerns whether most Arab countries even have four seasons, and not three (flooding, growing, and harvesting), or two (flood and drought).
If she wants Britain to leave the EU by March 29, 2019 she needs to start negotiating with MPs and peers and make concessions on the most contentious points, including membership of a customs union, to soften Brexit.
Republican Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas said his provision to kill the fee limits is the most contentious part of his 600-page financial reform measure, and could eventually be stripped in the final version of his bill.
LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian dictator imprisoned for human rights abuses but then pardoned last year, was ordered back to prison on Wednesday, reigniting debate over the fate of one of the region's most contentious figures.
In this lesson, students learn more about the immigrants affected by this political standoff; evaluate the policy proposals being debated; and explore ways to have their voices heard on one of the most contentious issues in American politics.
But the move — along with the announcement that the US would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — sparked outcry in the international community and further polarized one of the most contentious territorial disputes in the world.
Ms. Maloney is likely to make a strong bid for the position, and Democrats historically have rewarded seniority in choosing committee leaders, but she has not played a central role in the House's most contentious and consequential investigations.
The legislation, the product of months of discussions, represents a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on one of the most contentious topics of the Trump administration, ultimately passing by a vote of 240-2000 and attracting 22 Republicans.
Perhaps the most contentious issue for the relationship between Trump and Putin is the allegation of interference by the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election — something the entire U.S. intelligence community has confirmed but Trump continues to dispute.
With less than two weeks to go until the midterm elections, employees from tech companies are pouring money into the most contentious races across the country, focusing heavily on one long-shot Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: Beto O'Rourke.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday for the first time that a deal to renegotiate NAFTA was likely, amid signs negotiators may be closer to settling one of the regional trade pact's most contentious issues.
But how to manage what will become Britain's only land border with the EU - including the contested "backstop" mechanism to prevent checks - remains the most contentious part of a withdrawal agreement that Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to renegotiate.
The matter highlights one of the most contentious issues in cybersecurity research: One of the best ways to find potential vulnerabilities in software is to have a researcher try to think like a hacker and try to break in.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on March 5 that negotiators had a matter of weeks to reach an agreement "in principle," and last week industry sources said the U.S. team had withdrawn one of its most contentious demands.
He played a key role in some of Trump's most contentious policy moves including the travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations, departure from the Paris climate accord and rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
The proposal to ordain married men was one of the most contentious recommendations voted on Saturday evening at the conclusion of a three-week long meeting at the Vatican to discuss environmental and religious issues affecting the Amazon region.
Varadkar said a no-deal outcome would be particularly challenging for British-run Northern Ireland, whose border with EU-member Ireland and how it is managed in the future has proven the most contentious element of Britain's planned exit.
Contrasting perceptions of threat also make it harder to resolve what has become one of the most contentious issues for NATO: the level of its members' defence spending, the agreed aim for which is at least 2% of GDP.
Conservatives and liberals might disagree about the outcomes of specific cases but they seem to agree that a society in which the most contentious social issues are determined by the views of unelected judges is not a healthy one.
Of all of our discussions of this year, this one might be the most contentious, as Grierson and Leitch are on opposite sides: One of them thinks Rogue One is "magnificent," and the other thinks it's a complete mess.
A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that the Dallas pipeline operator Energy Transfer Equity is entitled to terminate its $38 billion merger with the Williams Companies, culminating one of the most contentious cases of buyer's remorse in recent memory.
Britain's commitments to pay into the EU budget - which officials in the bloc estimate to reach around 60 billion euros - are shaping up to be one of the first, and possibly the most contentious parts, of the divorce talks.
Although each one of these decisions could devolve into a fight within the Republican Party, tax policy and legislative experts tend to agree that perhaps the most contentious issue is how costly the eventual tax cut package will be.
President Francois Hollande said there was no turning back on a bill to loosen France's rigid labour regulations and that the principles behind the most contentious proposal handing firms more scope to negotiate working conditions must remain in place.
"The Senate has pivoted from one of the most contentious, partisan periods in the nation's history to passing this rescue package 100 to nothing all in one quarter of this year," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.
After more than 20 years in the national political spotlight, a failed 2008 presidential run, and one of the most contentious Democratic conventions in recent memory, Hillary Clinton made history Thursday when she accepted her party's nomination for president.
From the shooting down of a civilian airliner over Ukraine to operations in Syria and the United States electoral hacking, the organization's recent history has been entangled with some of Russia's most contentious actions, analysts and security researchers say.
WASHINGTON — Staff members on Capitol Hill recall Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House adviser behind many of President Trump's most contentious executive orders, as the guy from Jeff Sessions's office who made their inboxes cry for mercy.
One of the most contentious issues with the new law is that it creates criminal penalties for those who make false statements in their sworn affidavits, a move that critics of the law believe confuses and frightens potential voters.
Elections have consequences, goes the old saw, and in Virginia a Democratic wave in November remade the political landscape on one of the state's longest-running and most contentious issues: whether to expand Medicaid to 400,000 low-income residents.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved aggressively on Thursday to fulfill one of the president's most contentious campaign promises, banning entry into the United States by refugees from around the world and prohibiting most visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries.
It also delayed the most contentious issue in the talks — a demand by American officials that some companies be allowed to choose whether or not to be taxed under any new international system — until the end of the negotiations.
The most contentious issue has been IEX's "speed bump," which slows down orders by 350 millionths of a second so IEX can update fast-changing prices before the speediest traders can act on stale data and effectively queue-jump.
The central — and most contentious — provision of the measure that passed Thursday is its language enabling the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers Medicare, to negotiate the price of up to 250 commonly used drugs, including insulin.
The protests have become one of the most contentious social issues of Trump's presidency, fueling speculation about whether players would kneel during the Super Bowl, the league's annual championship and arguably the biggest American television event of the year.
In her talks with EU leaders and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker she will be seeking to change the Irish backstop, one of the most contentious parts of the withdrawal agreement she agreed in November, her office said.
However, Facebook is limiting the timeframe for what data it's making available, which "means the academics will not be able to analyse the most contentious information," including the runup to the 2016 US presidential elections and the Brexit vote.
Her late night sacking stands out as the most contentious clash to date between the administration and opponents inside Congress and out who have become increasingly willing to go rogue in their efforts to cut off or gum up its agenda.
Morrison also reaffirmed a pledge to return to surplus by June 2021, through spending cuts and tax hikes although not before wider deficits than previously forecast and with several of the most contentious measures previously blocked in the Senate, Reuters reported.
The most contentious matter the justices are likely to confront this term is whether Mr Trump acted legally when, a year ago, he rescinded DACA, Mr Obama's executive action of 2012 shielding undocumented immigrants who arrived in America as children.
Trump also announces that the U.S. Embassy in Israel will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a city that is sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity and whose status is one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East conflict.
One of the most contentious items in the 120-paragraph final document from the synod, the proposal calls for married men who are already deacons in the Church and are proven leaders in their communities to be ordained as priests.
Graham Brady, chair of the so-called 1922 committee which represents Conservative lawmakers, said he would welcome a delay to the vote to help May provide clarity over one of the most contentious parts of her plan - the Northern Irish backstop.
The backstop, which requires UK to obey some EU rules if no alternative can be found to keep the land border between Northern Ireland and Ireland invisible, has been the most contentious issue in Britain's exit process from the European Union.
The world's two biggest economies have started to outline commitments in principle on the most contentious issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
The European Union's Brexit negotiators believe a divorce deal with Britain is close, diplomatic sources said last week, in a sign a compromise on the most contentious issue - the future Irish border - might be in the making though details were scarce.
The talks are expected to be the most contentious in a decade amid "America first" policies from the Trump administration, a tight labor market and thousands of job cuts and cost reductions as the industry prepares for an expected economic downturn.
Even the conflicts tend to be charming; some of the most contentious moments include a housemate who encourages the others to follow their dreams with too much enthusiasm, and an awkward debate about when, exactly, it's appropriate to hold hands.
The United States and China have started to outline commitments in principle on the most contentious issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is expected to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday, after their teams haggled through the week to sort out some on the most contentious issues of the trade war.
After I argued that promoting the feature might be creating a culture of belief in the system, Tesla's PR team angrily contested the accusation at length; it was probably one of most contentious conversations I've fielded in my entire career.
The issue will be the most contentious fight in Congress in the coming weeks as part of the debate over government funding and what to do ahead of a deadline on addressing immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The game's (entire season's?) most contentious and memorable play—the block/charge fiasco is a close runner-up, but that's a different conversation for a different day—was a moment that should've symbolized one of Cleveland's only strengths in this matchup.
That presence has been most contentious on Okinawa, where about half of those US troops are based and where relations between US military personnel and residents deteriorated this year following several violent incidents related to American bases on the island.
A BIDEN-HARRIS REPRISE A back-and-forth between former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris over his record on race was one of the most contentious exchanges in the first Democratic debate, held in Miami in June.
The most contentious changes centre on Britain's future economic relationship with the EU. Namely whether Britain should leave the EU's customs union, as May wants, or stay closely aligned with the bloc's border regime, as some members of her party want.
The vast majority of economist polled by Reuters expect the ECB to stay its hand, at least in the first half of the year, having done enough for growth to remain on the sidelines until the most contentious elections are over.
The most contentious changes center on Britain's future economic relationship with the EU. Namely whether Britain should leave the EU's customs union, as May wants, or stay closely aligned with the bloc's border regime, as some members of her party want.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo said it would open talks on Friday with mining companies about implementing some of the most contentious provisions in a new mining code that hikes taxes and royalties in the face of objections from industry.
The work plan sets aside 25 days - from March 27 to April 24 - for discussions on the fiscal and customs regimes, including the new code's so-called stability clause, which is the most contentious point between the government and industry.
One of the most contentious issues confronting delegates when they meet on Monday to debate the platform will be whether to adopt a provision defending state laws that try to prevent transgender people from using the public restroom of their choice.
Now that the threat of another government shutdown has been averted, she's gearing up for the next challenge—and in true rabble-rousing fashion, has set her sights on one of the most contentious and thorny issues in American politics.
The issue of what will happen to the $42 billion worth of agreements, most of which were designed to satisfy requirements that PG&E use renewable energy sources, has emerged as one of the most contentious in the utility's bankruptcy.
The board declared illegal the NSA's most contentious program — the bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records — a year before Congress killed it off and provided fodder for a new NSA debate that has slowly begun stirring to life.
One note on "poison pills" The "no poison pills" piece of the agreement has been touted by the President and Republicans, and it will have the effect of streamlining the appropriations process and eliminating some of the most contentious spending battles.
Following one of the most contentious confirmation processes for secretary of education the US has ever seen, Betsy DeVos was confirmed on Tuesday by the slimmest of possible margins— 51-50 — with Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding affirmative vote.
The most contentious issue concerns what to do about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which former President Barack Obama established by executive action and has allowed young people brought to the US illegally to stay in the country.
Mr. Bannon has told people in Mr. Trump's inner circle that the new administration will have a short window of time to push its agenda through and should focus first on the priorities that are expected to be the most contentious.
CAIRO — The manager of a $4 billion dam under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia was found shot dead on Thursday, drawing an anguished reaction from Ethiopia's leaders and setting on edge one of Africa's most contentious development projects.
The Interpreter Hours after a truck plowed along a Manhattan bike path on Tuesday, Americans returned to a debate that has become a vessel for some of the most contentious questions dividing an increasingly polarized society: When is an attack terrorism?
It's expected to be the most contentious Supreme Court nominee hearing in decades, as the conservative Kavanaugh, Trump's second SCOTUS nominee since he took office, could flip the court to a conservative majority, potentially threatening the standing of Roe v.
In his prolific output in the nearly nine years between those two pieces, Gary fearlessly and calmly entered some of the nation's most contentious debates — over religious belief and atheism, racism, politics, the morality of patriotism, the purpose of education.
Most contentious, perhaps, was the Italian government's decision to grant a Chinese state-owned company access to two ports, including one used by the United States Navy that is just 100 kilometers from NATO's largest air base in the Mediterranean region.
Within hours of the release of Mr. Barr's letter, two other reporters, Charlie Savage and Michael Schmidt, surfaced in our digital report the most contentious part of the attorney general's actions: his decision to clear the president of obstruction of justice.
Wild (pronounced FRY-vilt) has become one of the most contentious and successful bands in Germany, where its lyrics about loving one's homeland have resonated with people who want to challenge the postwar taboo against public expressions of national pride.
The fear is that Republicans will use a procedural vote — known as a motion to recommit — to split Democrats and force certain changes to the bill, as the GOP has successfully done on some of the most contentious measures of 2019.
The fear is that Republicans would use a procedural vote — known as a motion to recommit — to split Democrats and force certain changes to the bill, as the GOP has successfully done on some of the most contentious measures of 2019.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to go on trial in the U.S. Senate next week on charges he abused his office and obstructed Congress, with one of the most contentious questions still unresolved - should senators hear from witnesses?
With all the focus on personal characteristics — age and race and experience — and a handful of the most contentious issues, voters haven't benefited from a clarifying choice about the party's message in the election and the approach to governing beyond it.
Among the largest and most contentious regulatory obligations facing the E.P.A. will be the enactment of Mr. Obama's signature climate change policy, the Clean Power Plan, which would require states to curb their planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Mr. bin al-Shibh has been the most contentious defendant inside the courtroom, bitterly complaining to earlier judges that somebody at the prison was consciously seeking to sleep deprive him through noises and vibrations that followed him around the detention zone.
Ms. Park's decision to accept the Thaad deployment has been one of the most contentious issues on the trail, and Moon Jae-in, the leading candidate, seized on the remarks and, through a spokesman, called for a halt to the deployment.
Scott has consistently stated his opposition to the most contentious provision of the bill that would arm some teachers and staff through a firearms safety and training program named for a coach who died in the shooting while protecting students.
WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has removed himself from some of the most contentious cases facing it, including challenges to the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan and a controversial rule related to the Clean Water Act.
The 12 appropriations subcommittees, each of which deal with one of the 85033 annual spending bills, are expected to hand their results to the committee's top Republicans and Democrats by day's end, leaving the most contentious issues for the weekend talks.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In one of the most contentious campaigns in the history of Indonesia's young democracy, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor of Jakarta, is battling on two fronts: in the court of public opinion and in the court of law.
Washington (CNN)With his decision to deploy more than 22010,21 troops to the US-Mexico border, President Donald Trump has ordered more military personnel to the US southwest than he has serving in some of the world's most contentious combat zones.
Republicans believe allegations of Kavanaugh's sexual misconduct are a plot by Democrats to stop the President's pick from joining the Supreme Court, thereby preventing the court from tilting in favor of Republicans and reversing its most contentious ruling: Roe v.
The case, being decided in London because the debt was structured as a Eurobond under English law, could see British courts rule on some of the most contentious issues in the Russia-Ukraine feud that has divided Moscow from the West.
The proposal, which bears many similarities to former Vice President Joe Biden's approach, further injects Buttigieg into the most contentious debate raging inside the Democratic Party, and one that polls show will directly impact who voters back in the 2020 primary.
The new travel restrictions that are now in place include a patchwork of exemptions for refugees and foreign nationals trying to enter the United States, while the White House shed some of the most contentious language from the executive order.
Or so seemed the thinking of many of the female Democratic leaders present, who sent clear messages about some of the nation's most contentious issues — women's rights, transgender rights, climate change, gun violence and particularly immigration — with their choice of guests.
The House has passed six funding bills, and the Senate is on the path to pass nine by the end of next week, leaving the most contentious spending battles over the Department of Homeland Security for later in the summer.
Miller, a former Senate aide, helped shape some of Trump's most contentious immigration policies, from a ban on Muslim immigrants proposed shortly after Trump took office in 2017 to the child separation policy, both of which were rejected by courts.
One Elysee official said a eurozone budget, one of Macron's most contentious ideas, would be "necessary in due course" and that the president would therefore raise the issue in his speech, to be delivered at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
The proposal for a one-for-one swap in which Europe would admit one Syrian refugee from Turkey for each one the Turks took back from Greek islands - among the most contentious aspects of the draft deal - was first introduced by the Dutch.
An author of numerous books on the topic, she was a member of SheBuiltNYC's committee and previously served on the Mayor's Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, which produced the landmark 2018 report on some of the city's most contentious statues.
Along with looming negotiations on the EU's next multi-year joint budget that runs from 2021, this dispute is shaping up as one of the most contentious issues facing the bloc, exacerbating an east-west rift as it seeks unity to tackle Brexit.
White nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in perhaps one of Trump's most contentious moment as president, he denounced violence on "many" sides in prepared remarks after one of the white nationalists drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a woman.
From the beginning, the debate over how to create new regulations to prevent another financial crisis was one of the most contentious of the past decade, pitting reform-minded Democrats against free market Republicans aided by an army of lobbyists on all sides.
Competing claims with China in the vital shipping lane are among the most contentious issues for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with its 10 members pulled between their desire to assert their sovereignty while finding common ground and fostering ties with Beijing.
Questions about Pruitt's closeness to industry The surge in earthquakes in his home state has highlighted questions about Pruitt's closeness to the oil and gas industry, which is certain to be one of the most contentious lines of inquiry at his confirmation hearing.
As the first cases of the virus from local mosquitoes have broken out in Florida over the past several days and other Gulf coast states brace themselves for outbreaks, these birth scenarios could set up the most contentious abortion debate in recent memory.
But some of the most contentious fighting leading up to the trial has been around whether or not Levandowski downloaded the files before leaving Waymo, who he might have shared them with, and what Uber knew about the alleged theft and when.
This week, Booker was also at the center of one of the hearing's most contentious exchanges when he dramatically threatened to release documents that had been designated confidential to the committee, even if it meant he would get ousted from the Senate.
Facebook continues to undergo the most contentious period in its history, as it struggles with the fallout from numerous scandals related to data privacy, misinformation, and fake news, as well as larger issues around the social network's corrosive role in democratic societies.
Standing astride that chasm is Mr. Saakashvili, one of the post-Soviet era's most contentious and best-known politicians in the region, a graduate of Columbia Law School who came to power in his native Georgia after the bloodless Rose Revolution in 2003.
Competing claims with China in the vital shipping lane and resource-rich sea are among the most contentious issues for the 10 members of ASEAN, who are pulled between their desire to assert their sovereignty while fostering ties with an increasingly assertive Beijing.
Mr Urzúa took the job fully aware of Mr López Obrador's most contentious proposals, such as building an oil refinery at a cost of $8bn (about 0.6% of GDP) and a "Maya train" (with a price tag of $6bn) in Mexico's impoverished south.
Since British lawmakers voted down the withdrawal agreement last month, parliament has instructed May to replace its most contentious element - an insurance policy covering the possible future arrangements for the border between EU-member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.
The fight over border wall money emerged as the most contentious issue, especially after Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, floated an idea to link one dollar of Obamacare subsidy money to one dollar of border wall funding, a proposal flatly rejected by Democrats.
But Johnson said he would take "personal responsibility" for delivering changes, not least to the most contentious part of the deal - the Irish backstop, which acts as an insurance policy to prevent border controls between EU member Ireland and British province Northern Ireland.
The EU says the backstop is vital to avoiding the return of border controls in Ireland and has refused to reopen the Brexit divorce deal, though May insists she can get legally binding changes to replace the most contentious parts of the backstop.
The issue of what would happen to the more than 3 million EU citizens currently living in Britain was one of the most contentious aspects of divorce talks before a withdrawal treaty was agreed in principle between London and Brussels in March.
According to a revised draft of the rules, seen by Reuters, a phase-in period until the end of 2018 would relate to measures affecting cross-border data transfers, which has been one of the most contentious elements of the new law.
The heroin epidemic, a resurgence in gang violence and economic factors in some cities were all offered as explanations, but the most contentious theory came from an agency that usually does not worry much about local crime: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By the summer of 2016, Butina was settled in the United States on a long-term visa, making her way in US political circles during one of the most contentious elections in recent American history -- while allegedly working with the Russian government.
Here are some of the most contentious issues in the tax debate, which likely will play out over the coming weeks and months before it can garner enough support to pass Congress and be sent to Trump to sign into law. 23.4(k).
For example, it does not contain ways to address the roughly 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. or include reforms to the nation's guest-worker programs, which have been two of the most contentious issues in the immigration debate for decades.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's Brexit negotiators believe a divorce deal with Britain is "very close", diplomatic sources said, in a sign a compromise on the most contentious issue - the future Irish border - might be in the making though details were scarce.
The labor board, however, is not challenging Bridgewater on a provision in its employment agreement that experts say is the most contentious — a two-year noncompete clause that limits the ability of hedge fund employees to move to another financial services industry job.
To his supporters, his decision to stand apart from his party in one of the nation's most contentious and bitter political battles in years proved he is attuned to the will of West Virginians and will stand firm against national party pressure.
Mr. Bolsonaro, who takes office in January, said this week that he plans to follow suit on one of Mr. Trump's most contentious foreign policy actions — by moving the Brazilian Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the contested city of Jerusalem.
How to manage the land border between EU-member Ireland and British-run Northern Ireland - including an emergency "backstop" solution to prevent the return of extensive frontier controls - has proven the most contentious element of Britain's planned exit from the European Union.
The Irish backstop - an insurance policy to avoid the return of a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland - is the most contentious element of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal which was overwhelmingly rejected by parliament last week.
After nearly two years, Facebook is almost done setting up its Oversight Board, an independent panel with the power to override Facebook's most contentious decisions—like Zuckerberg's political ad policy that allows politicians to lie with impunity unless they say something illegal.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar was volatile against its peers such as the safe-haven yen on Wednesday's Asian trading session, as anxiety gripped financial markets as they waited on the outcome of one of the most contentious U.S. presidential elections in history.
He avoided ceding ground on the most contentious issues, either by saying he wanted to keep "three zip codes" away from politics or by arguing that he could not comment on "hypothetical" cases that could come before him on the nation's top bench.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Ryan were frequently at odds during the campaign: Mr. Ryan was often critical of Mr. Trump's most contentious statements, like his questioning of the impartiality of a judge with Mexican heritage in a fraud case involving Trump University.
" • "Attorney General Geoffrey Cox — a key voice in the Brexit debate inside Cabinet — will set out in a speech expected on Tuesday how the most contentious part of the Brexit deal, the so-called backstop plan for the Irish border, could be changed.
Following is a timeline of events when the two investors took a stake in the company and how their relationship slowly developed into one of the most contentious proxy fights currently on record, ultimately leading to the termination of the deal. Feb.
Kavanaugh's views on executive power have been among the most contentious aspects of his record because of a 2009 Minnesota Law Review article suggesting that a sitting president should not be subject to a criminal investigation until after Congress has impeached him.
"The government has done a lot to prepare but there is still a lot to do," Michael Gove told reporters near Northern Ireland's border with EU-member Ireland, the future of which has proved the most contentious part of three years of Brexit talks.
We&aposre going to show you the most contentious, the most revealing moments from the hearing as an incredibly smug, arrogant, narcissistic Peter Strzok suspended every bit of logic lied about his blatant bias and even took yes some veiled cheap shots at yours truly.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday started to reshape US immigration enforcement policies via executive action, taking his first steps toward fulfilling some of the most contentious pledges that defined his campaign -- building a border wall and speeding the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Landmark ruling McCorvey began her association with one of the nation's most contentious and volatile sociopolitical issues in 1970 when she became the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging the Texas law that prohibited abortions except to save a pregnant woman's life.
These ambitious goals suggest Obama will seek to be less "above the fray" than most former presidents, converting the enduring good will of the Democratic Party base into grassroots movements for changing policy—not just at the margins, but at its most contentious core.
Despite differing views over the types of enforcement mechanisms that should be created and where the law should take precedence, they largely agreed that creating a strong federal bill with tough enforcement should take priority over discussions around the most contentious issues at play.
The government decided not to change an amendment that would force it to try to negotiate a customs union with the EU that is shaping up to be the most contentious vote in parliament next week, an official with the opposition Labour Party said.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Democratic White House candidate Bernie Sanders went on the offensive against front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday in the most contentious of their four presidential debates, accusing her of cozying up to Wall Street and misrepresenting his stance on healthcare and guns.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — There was neither a soaring nor shattering moment for the Democratic presidential candidates at their debate on Friday night, but it was still the most contentious one yet, and could influence some New Hampshire voters ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday.
The event was notable because it was Pichai's first appearance before the Republican-controlled House, after a long string of such congressional hearings over the last two years, but also because it happens to coincide with one of Google's most contentious moments in its history.
In essence, the justices would respond to the government's stay application by narrowing the scope of the injunctions, allowing some of the challenged provisions of the ban go into effect while upholding a block on the most contentious aspect: the section that actually suspends travel.
Norma was just 22 when championed the fight for a woman's right to an abortion ... and she became the center of one of the most contentious legal battles in American history that came to a head in 1973 when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.
SINGAPORE, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The dollar was volatile against its peers such as the safe-haven yen on Wednesday's Asian trading session, as anxiety gripped financial markets as they waited on the outcome of one of the most contentious U.S. presidential elections in history.
From the beginning, the debate over how to create new regulations to prevent another financial meltdown was one of the most contentious of the past decade, pitting reform-minded Democrats against free-market Republicans and spurred on by an army of lobbyists on all sides.
We Can't Even: Millennials on Film, an expansive survey currently playing at BAM of films about, for, and by millennials, takes aim at those stereotypes, presenting a bold syllabus on the economic, political, and societal conditions unwillingly inherited then reshaped by the most contentious generation.
On both nights, some of the most contentious moments came when candidates seeking to break out of the 1-percent pack took aim at those polling just ahead of them, highlighting a fierce and growing competition to own particular constituencies within a fragmented field.
Where they stand on SALT: How to cut or modify existing tax breaks for state and local taxes (also know as SALT) has been the most contentious part of the negotiations up to this point (but it's not the only issue -- more on that later).
One of the most contentious issues between the three nations was rules of origin for car makers, which dictate how much of a car must originate in either of the three nations to be able to be traded without tariffs, according to the newspaper.
However how to manage what will become Britain's only land border with the EU - including the contested "backstop" or insurance mechanism to prevent checks - remains the most contentious part of Britain's divorce deal that the contenders to become the country's next prime minister want renegotiated.
White House senior adviser — and President Trump's eldest daughter — Ivanka Trump sat down with Axios' Mike Allen on Thursday to talk paid family leave, the fate American workers caught in a trade war, and some of her father's most contentious policy points and comments.
The Middle-East-dominated oil cartel is not scheduled to make a decision over production policy until later this week, although the gathering of OPEC and other exporters in Vienna, Austria, is already shaping up to be one of the most contentious meetings in years.
Saraki said the Senate should next work out rules for communities hosting oil firms — one of the most contentious aspects as militants and villages in the impoverished Niger Delta demand a greater share of the oil revenues it generates and a cleanup of oil spills.
Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys' owner, has ended his threat to sue the N.F.L. and the six owners on the league's compensation committee who are negotiating a contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell, ending one of the league's most contentious internal standoffs in recent years.
While advisers work out the details of his economic program, Bolsonaro revisited some of his most contentious campaign promises on Monday night: looser gun laws, a ban on government advertising for media that "lie," and urging a high-profile judge to join his government.
The status of the land border separating the Republic of Ireland, which is part of the EU, from Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom and will be leaving the bloc, has been one of the most contentious aspects of the deal.
She evidently hopes she can squeeze some concessions out of a European Union summit meeting scheduled for Thursday and Friday that could placate some members of Parliament on the most contentious issue, the open border between Ireland and the British region of Northern Ireland.
At the same time, the rapper faced potentially career-hobbling criminal charges — including aggravated battery of a pregnant victim, false imprisonment, domestic battery by strangulation and witness tampering — that made him one of the most contentious figures in music at the time of his death.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday weakened a rule that required the government to annually make public its estimates of civilian bystanders killed in airstrikes outside conventional war zones — increasing the secrecy that cloaks one of the most contentious aspects of the fight against terrorists.
"If I were writing your headline, I'd say the Senate has pivoted from one of the most contentious partisan periods in the nation's history to passing this rescue package 100 to nothing," he told reporters after approval of the measure, referring to the impeachment trial.
In the middle of one of the most contentious moments of the era, when Americans were deeply divided over a President who had taken the nation into a costly war in Iraq based on false claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction, then-Illinois Sen.
Mostly, Rohingya refugees are simply too terrified to countenance returning to Rakhine without first obtaining serious guarantees from the Myanmar government: among other things, the restitution of lost land and property, access to public services, formal recognition as "Rohingya" and, perhaps most contentious, full citizenship.
Anand Giridharadas, a writer and high-profile critic of the ultra-rich, noted that the word "billionaire" came up more frequently during the Nevada debate "than 'China,' America's leading geopolitical competitor; 'immigration,' among its most contentious issues; and 'climate,' its gravest existential threat."Sen.
One of the most contentious topics of the synod, whose some 260 participants are mostly bishops from the Amazon, is whether to allow older married "proven men" with families and a strong standing in local communities to be ordained as priests in the Amazon.
It was unclear whether Friday's ruling would lead to a resolution of one of the most contentious issues in the case: Mr. Reed's lawyers have pushed for the murder weapon — Ms. Stites's belt — to be tested for DNA evidence, which has yet to happen.
The Irish backstop - an insurance policy to avoid the return of a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland - is the most contentious element of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal which was overwhelmingly rejected by members of parliament last week.
But many of them this week steered clear of the most contentious underlying cause of the strike: the teacher union's opposition to the growth of charter schools, and the union's claim that district officials — who are largely Democrats — favor charter schools over traditional ones.
Luke P. Doesn't Win (Rejoice!) While many fans worried for a hot minute there that Hannah might actually pick Luke (hey, Ben Flajnik picked his season's most contentious contestant way back when), it seems pretty clear after the Fantasy Suites episode that the ship has sailed.
The most contentious issue for British MPs is what's known as the Irish "backstop" -- essentially what status Northern Ireland and its border with Ireland would have in the event that the U.K. and EU could not strike a trade deal in the transition period following Brexit.
"The whole coming at my baby father bullshit, that doesn't make me feel any better," she said, calling out the legion of commenters posting anti-Offset takedowns across the internet and tapping into one of the most contentious developments around celebrity in recent years: stan culture.
Mr Urzúa took the job fully aware of Mr López Obrador's most contentious proposals, such as building an oil refinery at a cost of $8bn (about 0.7% of GDP) or more and a "Maya train" (with a price tag of $6bn-8bn) in Mexico's impoverished south.
Sanders has always maintained that his campaign was more about policy ideas than personality — but it's precisely the elements of his vision that are most contentious inside the Democratic Party that may also seem least appealing to the very Midwestern voters Democrats are trying to reach.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the midst of Israel's most contentious identity crisis in decades, earlier this summer Jerusalem Design Week 2018 released a variety of illustrations imagining what a unified Israeli-Palestinian flag would look like, despite that dream looking farther away than ever.
The chamber, which represents 200 companies including Maersk and P&0 that facilitate 95 percent of the country's trade in goods, said May should either ditch the Irish backstop — the most contentious part of the deal she agreed in November — or put a time limit on it.
Amazon's role as both a platform for merchants and a seller on that same platform has become one of the most contentious areas of the business, especially as reports surfaced indicating it had been using sellers' data to create its own versions of best-selling items.
DURHAM, N.H. (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton went on the attack against rival Bernie Sanders on Thursday in their most contentious presidential debate yet, questioning whether his ambitious proposals were viable and accusing him of an "artful smear" in suggesting she could be bought by political donations.
The question that has again been raised since is not dissimilar to the one that dogged Trump: Will her base really care very much what she says or does, especially in these final two weeks of one of the most contentious campaigns in modern French history?
How to manage the land border between European Union member Ireland and British-run Northern Ireland remains the most contentious part of a proposed agreement on the terms of Britain's departure from the EU. Both contenders to become the next British prime minister want that agreement renegotiated.
Why it matters: Consensus has been reached on about 85% of the deal, per the NYTimes' Steven Erlanger, but several of the most contentious issues, including the Irish border dilemma and the U.K.'s customs and trade relationship with the EU, have yet to be resolved.
The hearing was perhaps the most contentious between the City Council and members of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration since City Hall faced an outcry over communication failures that allowed a former nursing home in Lower Manhattan, known as Rivington House, to be sold to condominium developers.
One of the most contentious decisions Peter Gelb made early in his tenure as general manager of the Met, where he arrived in 2006 as a modernizing agent, was replacing the ornate Zeffirelli "Tosca" with a starker, grittier, more sexually explicit staging by Luc Bondy in 2009.
Democrats aren't budging, and they're alleging that Republicans surprised them with the last-minute demands, according to Politico: Democrats say an agreement was near on overall funding levels for the fiscal 2018 Labor-Health and Human Servies funding measure, typically one of the most contentious spending bills.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday made saints of two of the most contentious Roman Catholic figures of the 21978th century — murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI, who reigned over one of the Church's most turbulent eras and enshrined its opposition to contraception.
Along with disagreement about the appropriate financial penalty, one of the most contentious undercurrents throughout the negotiations has been the degree to which Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, should be held personally liable for any violation of a 2011 agreement, according to two of the people.
The prohibition on military-style rifles was the most contentious of a series of gun-control bills making their way through the State Legislature this year and the centerpiece of Democrats' attempts to restrict firearms after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in Virginia Beach last May.
The principles that they agree upon, which could be announced Thursday or Friday, are not expected to offer much clarity on many of the most contentious debates that have been weighing on congressional leaders and the White House economic team as they try to bridge their differences.
Over the past year, the most contentious issue in the countries' trade talks has been the Trump administration's demand for what it calls an enforcement provision, which would allow the United States to monitor China's behavior and put penalties in place if the Chinese violated the deal.
The most contentious argument in this devastating exposé is that the right to decide where and how money can be spent and invested lies not only with its owners, but with its creators—governments, which, in Mr Bullough's view, should impose capital controls to jam the illicit flows.
The movie came out so early in the arc of Facebook's place in society that it didn't even address its transition to becoming the platform our extended relatives post outdated memes to our walls, let alone its role in one of the most contentious elections in modern history.
The governor's race in Georgia is one of the most contentious and closely watched in the US because voters rights groups have sued Kemp for withholding 53,000 voter registration applications, most of which were for black voters, because they did not pass the state's "exact match" voter ID law.
The contracts have emerged as one of the most contentious issues in PG&E's bankruptcy, which the company launched in January in the face of tens of billions of dollars in potential liability stemming from wildfires in California in recent years that may be traced to its equipment.
Aziz Ansari's episode contained several good sketches — a short film in which he tentatively bonded with an Uber driver, a silly bedroom bit with Melissa Villasenor doing goofy impressions — but the one that hit the hardest touched on one of the most contentious debates of the last year.
The unity or division of the Republican Party will prove critical even before Trump takes office in January, in one of the most contentious and important issues of the campaign: the nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat left unfilled by the death in February of Antonin Scalia.
The sparsely populated Spratly Islands, a collection of hundreds of islands and reefs spread over roughly 165,000 square miles in the South China Sea, are very quickly becoming the center of one of the most contentious international disputes between world powers since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The most contentious part of the spending bill is what's called a "pay-go" waiver: A provision to suspend rules that bar the government from enacting expensive new programs, like the GOP tax cuts, unless there is enough money in the current year's budget to pay for them.
Costs of the operation More than 255,0003 active duty troops could be deployed troops to the southwest border, more than he has serving in some of the world's most contentious combat zones, but they are there solely to support Homeland Security officials as they prepare for the migrants' arrival.
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The following year, at the 2009 West Kingston Jamboree the artists called a "truce"—though their battle has since restarted—ending what may have been one of the most contentious battles in dancehall's history, but it didn't finish without Kartel getting a few records off of his chest first.
A group of Conservative lawmakers from both wings of May's deeply divided party bypassed her last week to come up with a compromise plan that called on the prime minister to return to Brussels and reopen the most contentious element of the exit agreement - the Northern Irish backstop.
SEATTLE — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, on Friday injected himself into one of the most contentious political debates in the United States, announcing that he and his wife had donated $33 million to a college scholarship program geared toward young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
In the most contentious debate so far, taking place four days before the New Hampshire primary, the runners-up in Iowa charged at Mr. Sanders and Mr. Buttigieg, who appeared in the best position among the top candidates to win New Hampshire and perhaps take command of the race.
The moves could create a positive atmosphere for Chinese and American trade negotiators when they meet next month, but they do not address the most contentious issues standing in the way of a deal, including White House concerns about China's practice of forced technology transfers by American companies.
Sorial said the book, which is being published by an imprint of HarperCollins that focuses on conservative ideas, includes details about his work on some of the company's most contentious projects, including the transformation of 1,400 acres of Scottish coastline in Aberdeenshire into a golf course and resort.
In the end, the most contentious Supreme Court confirmation drama in decades resulted in a split midterm decision that suggests that Democrats might have gained ground in their fledgling efforts to make the court as mobilizing an issue to their voters as it has long been to Republicans.
And as you settle into each new driver's backseat, en route to each new destination in your crazy busy life, maybe, like me, you find yourself somewhat unwittingly implicated in one of the most contentious ethical struggles of this generation – a struggle with profound implications for the future of work.
Despite that success, Alphabet is currently facing one of the most contentious moments in its history, as regulatory scrutiny has forced Google to make changes to Android and a mounting number of controversies around censorship and China threaten the company's position in the eyes of both politicians and the public.
The draft does not include the future fiscal regime and taxation for oil firms and the role of host communities — one of the most contentious aspects as militants and villages in the impoverished Niger Delta demand a greater share of the oil revenues it generates and more benefits from oil majors.
In the early months of the Trump administration, the panel gave Booker a seat at the table for some of the most contentious confirmation hearings, including those of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — whose confirmation was very much in doubt for a time — and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
"Perhaps to belabor the obvious," the National Association of Evangelicals wrote in a "friend of the court" brief as it urged the justices to hear the appeal, "abortion remains one of the most contentious issues of our public life, implicating not just religious and ethical issues, but scientific and political ones."
Apple stops selling the 12-inch MacBook, a computer you either loved or were confused by Apple officially stopped selling the 12-inch MacBook today, a computer that hasn't had an update since June 2017 and that is also maybe one of the most contentious Macs in Apple's lineup. 3.
GM will lead the negotiations, which are expected to be the most contentious in at least a decade amid a slowdown in auto sales, a volatile trade environment and a widening federal probe into union corruption that led to UAW President Gary Jones' home being searched last week by federal officials.
The office of Iran's president on Sunday charged into the middle of one of the most contentious debates over the character of the Islamic Republic, suddenly releasing a three-year-old report showing that nearly half of Iranians wanted an end to the requirement that women cover their heads in public.
Judge O'Connor, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, has been at the center of some of the most contentious and partisan cases involving federal power and states' rights, and has sided with conservative leaders in previous challenges to the health law and against efforts to expand transgender rights.
In what may end up being the most contentious piece of the proposal, the White House is also defining as border security closing "legal loopholes" that will allow it to deport more immigrants -- which would likely include changes in immigration enforcement authority that would be virtually impossible for Democrats to swallow.
Here are some of the other new laws you should know about: Criminal justice and gun control One of the most contentious and closely watched debates over a piece of legislation last year ultimately resulted in some of the nation's toughest standards for the use of force by the police.
Now, in the latest change to its chart rules, Billboard has tackled one of the industry's most contentious questions: the role of YouTube, which dominates music consumption online but has frequently been vilified by record companies — and even many of the artists who post videos there — for low royalty payments.
Similar to fellow Big Tech companies Amazon and Facebook, the last four years have been arguably the most contentious in Google's history, as an activist coalition of employees have arisen within the company to fight for change and lawmakers, activists, and regulators have sought to check Google's power from the outside.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the United States today, education, especially in its public forms, paid for by taxpayers, is frequently the most contentious subject on the agendas of politicians, pundits, public-policy researchers, private-foundation funders, controversy-loving TV talking heads, pedagogical "experts" and, of course, teachers, parents and students.
WASHINGTON — Partially lifting the secrecy that has cloaked one of the United States' most contentious tactics for fighting terrorists, the Obama administration on Friday said that it believed that airstrikes it has conducted outside conventional war zones like Afghanistan have killed 22013 to 20153 civilian bystanders and about 22015,22013 members of terrorist groups.
NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton made it abundantly clear Wednesday night that if she defeats Donald J. Trump next month she will enter the White House with the most contentious relationship with Russia of any president in more than three decades, and with a visceral, personal animus toward Vladimir V. Putin, its leader.
But the parties continued to clash on the most contentious issues, including mechanisms to resolve trade disputes and award government contracts, as well as so-called rules of origin, which govern the amount of a good that needs to be manufactured in North America in order to qualify for zero tariffs under Nafta.
In response, moderates are also moving left, abandoning some of their most contentious ideas (no one openly talks about the need to cut entitlements anymore) and adopting essentially shrunken-down ideas that reflect fundamentally the same inclination to increase the scope of government economic activism rather than offering a truly distinct platform.
Typically a rather slow-moving institution, the high court may have to accelerate its pace if it is to resolve whether citizenship appears on the census questionnaire: the forms must begin rolling out of the printers in June, a few weeks before the justices typically hand down the most contentious rulings of the term.
But as with most contentious questions, the answer seems to boil down to "more, not less": more awareness of what these men have done and how it has affected their art and their colleagues, more debate over the best place for their art in our society, more opportunities for their victims and their art.
This debate over terminology might seem like a distraction, but it also speaks to the hardest and most contentious question of all: When a troubled young man murders dozens of people, invoking a group with which he appears to have few real links, how do we classify, and thereby make sense of, what he did?
PHILADELPHIA — Nearly three years ago, the N.F.L. and lawyers for thousands of retired football players agreed on a deal to compensate all former players who had neurological diseases linked to repeated hits to the head, helping the league to move on from one of the most contentious issues facing the nation's most popular sport.
" During a concert by the band in the industrial outskirts of the southern city of Ceske Budejovice on Saturday, leather-clad fans pumped their fists and sang along with one of the band's most contentious songs, "Mosque," which disparages Muslims with lyrics such as "They will cut off your head, for Allah's greater glory.
While European officials want a smooth Brexit and are willing to put off dealing with some of the issues that are the most contentious in Britain, they are also going to be more loyal to a member in good standing, Ireland, than to a country, no matter how important, that has chosen to leave.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's Constitutional Court, which will decide whether President Park Geun-hye is permanently removed from office, on Thursday ordered Ms. Park to respond to one of the most contentious accusations against her: that she neglected her duties on the day in 2014 when hundreds died in the sinking of a ferry.
Aside from one of the most contentious and mind-numbingly baffling election cycles in recent memory, 2016 could very well go down in the annals of history as the year in which the scourge of malevolence that are creepy clowns finally went one step too far and a coalition of good was formed to halt their reign of skulduggery.
It has been crafted to reflect agreements previously reached by congressional negotiators on six of the seven remaining appropriations bills for fiscal year 2019 with the exception of the Department of Homeland Security, which has proven to be the most contentious funding bill as a result of the impasse between Democrats and the President over border wall funding.
All parties have been preparing for what are expected to be the most contentious negotiations in at least a decade amid a slowdown in auto sales, a volatile trade environment and a widening federal probe into union corruption that escalated Thursday as UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson was arrested and charged as part on the investigation.
Democrats have accused Mr. Kavanaugh of evading and misleading the committee during last week's confirmation hearings, and continuing those charges, volleyed a series of requests for more information centering on some of the most contentious issues that surfaced, including his views on executive power and his relationship with a former Republican Senate aide who stole documents from Senate Democrats.
One of the most contentious cases came to the spotlight in 2018, when a court sentenced five men to prison for the "continuous sexual abuse" of an 18-year-old woman during the Pamplona bull-running festival, but cleared them of the more serious charge of rape, which under Spanish law must involve violence or intimidation.
The synod's most contentious issue has been whether elderly married men could be ordained as priests only in the Amazon to say Mass in the vast region because of the shortage of priests.. Conservatives oppose the proposal, saying it would be a slippery slope leading to the end of the tradition of celibacy in the rest of the 1.3 billion-member Church.
A week after he took power, Johnson's office made no mention of Brexit in a statement overnight announcing plans for his visit to the province, the only part of Britain to share a land border with the rest of the EU. Plans for the border have become the most contentious issue in Britain's negotiations with the EU over the terms of its exit.
Clinton's speech, delivered in the heart of Silicon Valley to an audience that included the Apple co-founder's widow, Laurene Powell, and technology executives and diplomats, took no hard position on one of the most contentious issues about combating terrorism: Whether to provide law enforcement and intelligence agencies an assured way into the contents of cellphones, or the data they transmit.

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