It is a blessed thing, on the whole, to live in slightly dull times, especially after disorder, siege and bitter contention.

Evidently this had been a point of bitter contention.

But what seems obvious to jurists is a matter of bitter contention among academic researchers.

The issue remains a source of bitter contention with the school system.

As anyone with even a passing interest in sports knows, there has been bitter contention over the use of Native Americans as mascots.

His role there was to become a matter of bitter contention.

To do so, it created the kind of requirement for employers to provide coverage that has been a point of bitter contention in the Clinton plan.

After half a century of bitter contention, the Atlantic Charter sets forth the agenda on which most nations are at last agreed.

All of which explained why Basilisk had become a bone of incredibly bitter contention among the major political parties.

It was a period of often bitter contention between the Federal Government and the steel industry.