Modifying Another Word

• politically: Extra time is, however, undoubtedly useful to improve the quality of " technical " drafting which is not politically contentious.

• potentially: However, large or potentially contentious applications are decided by panels of councilors.

• highly: Hunting with hounds is a highly contentious subject of great interest to people who live in rural areas.

• somewhat: Finally, some thought needs to be given to the somewhat contentious issue of assessment time.

• particularly: Age has been a particularly contentious issue for social workers.

• increasingly: What is being done to address this increasingly contentious internet issue?

Modifies a noun

• probate: Wills, Probate & Contested probate Advice on wills, probate, administration and contested wills and contentious probate.

• parade: The police could refer any notice of a contentious parade to a tribunal.

• issue: Animal testing has been a contentious issue for decades.

• matter: Projects related to hobbies or to contentious campus matters seem to be very popular.

• debate: Such a prospect is almost certain to fuel the already contentious debate over the use of genetically modified crops.

• topic: But why are these two contentious topics so often thrown together?

Used with adjective complement

• prove: It will prove most contentious to the Labor Party itself.

• remain: The only area that remains contentious in that context is the debate on the Welsh language.

• become: A division of share rights agreements becomes contentious where the target company's country has a domestic CGT regime.

• seem: The remaining detail of the document doesn't seem contentious.

• find: At this point he hasn't appealed to God or made claims that even most atheists would find contentious.

• appear: Points in the draft that we view as helpful may appear contentious to some of them.

Preposition: in

• context: The only area that remains contentious in that context is the debate on the Welsh language.

• quarter: It does appear to have been particularly contentious in some quarters.