They spend a lot of time together and they compete for playing time, a potentially contentious combination.

In effect, potentially contentious discussions about what to bomb and how much bombing to do are being postponed for now.

Another potentially contentious issue is how California will benefit financially from discoveries made with the state financing.

The earlier potentially contentious content is referred the better.

The agreement, before coming into effect, faces potentially contentious legislative battles in the United States and elsewhere.

The city's approach also allows it to bypass a potentially contentious review by the City Council, the report said.

This could lead to a long and potentially contentious approval process, he said.

Nuclear power plant builders would no longer have potentially contentious and delaying hearings at the end of construction.

Also being considered is a potentially contentious idea to have localities provide the state with a share of the revenues they raise from sales tax.

The ballots from abroad that were considered potentially contentious before the election proved to have very little effect on the result.