Lastly and most importantly, the precision in mimicking Cuyp ’ s style by his follower Abraham van Calraet and their contentious signatures makes it all the more difficult to determine which paintings are genuinely that of Cuyp and which ones are actually accurate reproductions in his style.

Authorship is more contentious for this work ; although he started this work, he died before it could be finished, and most likely was more a product of people other than Alexander.

This account is, however, contentious among historians, it being most commonly asserted that he died of natural causes.

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.

These discussions are usually among the most contentious at CoP meetings.

The most contentious subjects, topics or areas are politics, religion and sex.

Domestic conciliation is most commonly used to handle contentious divorces, but may apply to other domestic disputes such as the annulment of a marriage or acknowledgment of paternity.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

His involvement had an impact on three of the most contentious issues of the early postwar period: the fight to establish a Jewish state, the smuggling of Holocaust survivors to Israel, and the battle against racial segregation in the United States.

Her relationship with Patti was the most contentious ; Patti flouted American conservatism and rebelled against her parents by joining the nuclear freeze movement and authoring many anti-Reagan books.

In North America, the most contentious of these issues among these churches at the present time is how far the ordination of gay men and lesbians should be accepted.

The proposals of the other commission, on amateurism, were more contentious, but this commission also set important precedents for the Olympic Games, specifically the use of heats to narrow participants and the banning of prize money in most contests.

The issue remains contentious — though most analysts resist the model that technology simply is a result of scientific research .< ref >.

As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman army, serving in some of the most contentious parts of the Empire's frontier.

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 ).

One of the most contentious issues of the treaty proposed by the United States is with concerns to patents and copyrights.

The future of Palestine was contentious from the beginning of the Palestine Mandate since the British declared support for a " Jewish national home in Palestine " even though most of the population were Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabs.

This policy of liberalization has been one of most contentious policies.

The most contentious statement in the manifesto is: " Artists who don't paint aren't artists ".

The most contentious aspect of SOX is Section 404, which requires management and the external auditor to report on the adequacy of the company's internal control on financial reporting ( ICFR ).

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity ; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science ; it will not require many words to prove, that all mankind have ever agreed in the doctrine of liberty as well as in that of necessity, and that the whole dispute, in this respect also, has been hitherto merely verbal.

Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.

This work will cover the most serious one-fourth of all land needing such treatment, and will consist of burning 250,000 acres of highly hazardous debris concentration, felling snags on 350,000 acres of high lightning-occurrence areas, prescribed burning on 3.5 million acres, removing roadside fuel on 39,000 acres, and clearing and maintaining 11,000 miles of firebreaks.

Rodent control work for the 10-year period will be aimed at control of the most serious infestations of harmful rodents, such as porcupines and mice, on high-value areas of forage and commercial timberlands.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

No antigen was detectable in certain dark spherical areas in most cells.

This saved for state adjudication, in the first instance, the two major areas where federal injunctions had been most obnoxious, but other areas remained vulnerable.

The vast Central Valley of California is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

Thus, the most productive areas are not necessarily the most stressed.

Central city areas have become progressively poorer locales for the major denominations since the exodus of middle-class people from most central cities.

Though the sales gains these two dealers are experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales are climbing in most rural areas.

The most productive areas include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger Bank of the North Sea, and the Falkland Banks.

The most sensitive, and in many ways the most crucial areas, along the Mississippi River and in western Tennessee along the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were placed under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Brig.

He made substantial contributions in many areas, the most important being his discovery of profound connections between algebraic geometry and number theory.

Anthroposophical ideas have been applied practically in many areas including Steiner / Waldorf education, special education ( most prominently through the Camphill Movement ), agriculture, medicine, ethical banking, organizational development, and the arts.

The areas most heavily contaminated with dioxins are the sites of former U. S. air bases.

In most areas, D-AMPS is no longer offered and has been replaced by more advanced digital wireless networks.

Currently, hunting is the more serious factor in most areas.

The most renowned of the dynasty's rulers was Mahmud of Ghazni, who consolidated control over the areas south of the Amu Darya then carried out devastating raids into India.

Tracks in very sandy or exceedingly rocky areas may require high-clearance four wheel drives and spare fuel, tyres, food and water before attempting to travel them, however most outback roads are easily traversed in ordinary vehicles, provided care is taken.

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

The annual mean temperature in the most populated areas of the province are above, the mildest anywhere in Canada.

The superior colliculus, which plays a major role in visual control of behavior in most vertebrates, shrinks to a small size in mammals, and many of its functions are taken over by visual areas of the cerebral cortex.