Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

Groups opposing certain generally accepted scientific views on evolution, second-hand smoke, AIDS, and other politically contentious scientific matters argue that PC is responsible for the failure of their perspectives to receive a fair public hearing ; thus, in Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, Assoc.

Richard Sakwa wrote that the Russian government is undoubtedly considered legitimate by the great majority of the Russian people and seeks to deliver a set of public goods without appealing to extra-democratic logic to achieve them, but whether the system was becoming an illiberal or delegative democracy was more contentious.

Such aerial culling is a contentious issue to some members of the public.

Dingle carried on a highly public and contentious campaign to get this conclusion accepted by the scientific community, mostly through letters to the editors of various scientific periodicals, including Nature.

The contentious series saw both coaches — Lindy Ruff and Laviolette — taking public verbal shots at each other's team, but in the deciding Game Seven, the Hurricanes rallied with three goals in the third to win by a score of 4 – 2.

Taylor's speech was highly contentious in part because in October 1938 the Munich Agreement was popular with the public even if subsequently it was to be reviled along with the policy of appeasement, and also because he used a non-partisan and non-political occasion to make a highly partisan, politically charged attack on government policy.

The promoter of justice, for instance, is a canon lawyer whose job is to represent the diocese as the prosecutor in penal cases and who also can intervene in contentious cases if they concern the " public good ", acting as a watch dog for the people of the diocese.

Although Hezbollah is formally recognized by the government of Canada as a terrorist organization, it is a contentious issue for the Canadian public, as there are some who disagree with this view, regarding Hezbollah as a resistance movement instead.

In 1517, in his more settled public position, Douglas was one of the leading members of the embassy to Francis I which negotiated the Treaty of Rouen, but his role in the volatile politics of the period, mainly centring around control over the minority of James V, was deeply contentious.

This was immensely unpopular locally and became a contentious issue in the resulting public inquiry which resulted in delays to the project.

During this period, although only in his early 30s, Stockman became well known to the public during the contentious political wrangling concerning the role of the federal government in American society.

President Kennedy supported Kennan in private but remained noncommittal in public, as he did not want to jeopardize his slim majority support in Congress on a potentially contentious issue.

Although the results were personally contentious, they did win the World Series in 1948, Cleveland's first championship in 28 years, and both Boudreau and Veeck were public in admitting the other's role in the success.

The contentious session ended with only a few accomplishments, including passage of a fetal homicide law, an anti-price gouging measure, and a law barring the state public service commission from regulating broadband Internet providers beyond what restrictions were put in place by the Federal Communications Commission.

As governor, Sanford had a contentious relationship with the South Carolina legislature: notably, he made public statements that he would reject stimulus funds for his state from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

It has also participated in numerous public policy debates, often on contentious social issues.

A public inquiry on the bridge closed in May 2006, it being particularly contentious in the residential neighbourhoods between Plumstead and the Danson Interchange ( a junction on the A2 ).

His tactics, methods and pronouncements, which have sometimes been labeled in the mainstream media as " brash and abrasive in any language ," “ flamboyant ”, “ contentious ,” “ notorious ,” “ aggressive ,” “ controversial ,” and “ combative ,” have provoked public criticisms from Japan residents and Western expatriates alike, including bloggers, columnists, book authors on Japan, and even his former wife.

In practice, the clearance process is said to lead to a watering down of the initial draft, with the most contentious early findings removed at the behest of the department ( and never, therefore, made public ).

He avoided debating the issue of land reform, at that time the most contentious subject in Romanian politics ; instead, Creţulescu focused on unifying the public health system, creating the Directorate General of the Public Archive, and establishing a Council for Public Instruction.

The lack of a consistent definition of homelessness is a contentious issue, however most research and programs focus on " absolute homelessness " and public policy initiatives.

He also voiced public opposition to the individual mandate when it was proposed by both First Lady Hillary Clinton and the conservative Heritage Foundation during the contentious national health care reform debate of 1993 and 1994.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

Relations have been rocky, during the 1990s, immigration became contentious for Guyanese persons to Barbados.

The use of DU became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of DU munitions by the US, UK and other countries during wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions of uranium compounds left in the soil ( see Gulf War Syndrome ).

The decision to locate the capital was contentious, but Alexander Hamilton helped broker a compromise in which the federal government would take on war debt incurred during the American Revolutionary War, in exchange for support from northern states for locating the capital along the Potomac River.

Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.

By the mid-1920s membership was already declining due to government repression and it decreased again substantially during a contentious organizational schism in 1924 when the organization split between the " Westerners " and the " Easterners " over a number of issues, including the role of the General Administration ( often oversimplified as a struggle between " centralists " and " decentralists ") and attempts by the Communist Party to dominate the organization.

The euphemism the N-word became mainstream American English usage during the racially contentious murder trial of ex-footballer O. J. Simpson in 1995.

Mahdi argued that this version is the earliest extant one ( a view that is largely accepted today ) and that it reflects most closely a " definitive " coherent text ancestral to all others that he believed to have existed during the Mamluk period ( a view that remains contentious ).

The question of how serious a threat to democracy may have existed during these years continues to be contentious — a key point at issue being who of any consequence would have been ready to move beyond grumbling about the government ( or spreading rumours ) to actively taking unconstitutional action.

Politics in Havre de Grace can sometimes become contentious, especially during City Council meetings, even more so when certain topics are discussed.

Accounts of Town Meetings during these years communicate just how contentious deciding what was best for this area could be.

PiL had a series of contentious live shows and behind-the-scenes controversies during their first American tour in 1980.

Like many other West Coast cities, Bremerton school teachers were pitted against their district's administration for nearly a month in September 1994 during a contentious strike.

A contentious officer, he was a fierce advocate of " pursuit " or fighter-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the U. S. Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment.

Another contentious issue the assembly debated during its early weeks was the trial of John Lilburne, which again did little to unite opinion.

One contentious point during the drafting of the Restatement was how to calculate the amount of damages flowing from a promissory estoppel.

It came to prominence as a contentious tactic within unconventional environmentalist circles during the 1980s, after it was advocated by Earth First!

The spelling and indeed the use of the word " Ghettotech " is contentious, with many Detroit DJs and artists preferring not to use the term, although Disco D is credited with developing the usage during his days as a teenager on the scene.

Federal tax policy was highly contentious during the war, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt battling a conservative Congress.

Even before Georgia's independence, the position of national minorities was contentious and led to outbreaks of serious inter-ethnic violence in Abkhazia during 1989.

However, for developers and advanced users like researchers, analysts and gamers, 3rd party software development involving firmware mods, whether for powerful gaming or exploiting capabilities beyond the published data sheet and programming language, is a contentious issue with manufacturers and education authorities as it might incite unfair calculator use during standardized high school and college tests where these devices are targeted.

One of the contentious issues is the Radiocarbon dating in 1988 which yielded results indicating that the shroud was made during the Middle Ages.