Two days after that contentious meeting, which lasted six hours, Glavine became a Met.

It could take just a few days, during the organization's contentious meeting in Seattle, for him to be judged a success or a failure.

At a contentious meeting to announce the coaching change, Manning said, "They wanted to barbecue me."

After a contentious four-and-a-half-hour meeting on Aug. 14, the board rejected the project, in part because the application was incomplete.

Glavine had dismissed the Braves earlier in the week after a contentious meeting, two people familiar with his negotiations said.

That statement was hammered out over two days of contentious meetings in which the archbishop struggled to hold the communion together.

The earnings come ahead of what is expected to be a contentious annual general meeting next month.

The communique did not reflect what were otherwise contentious meetings between the ministers.

Those who attended the contentious meeting left with wildly different interpretations of what had occurred.

In an unusually contentious meeting between these teams, controversy was the order of the day.