Yet who can help feeling that his style is regular because the matter he deals with is the somewhat
uncontentious, even, limited soul, of an age not imaginative, and unambitious in its speculative flight?
That much is
uncontentious. The issue is what he would do once in office.
Even when she obliquely references Britain's relationship with the European Union, she does so in a queenly,
uncontentious way.
This was not
uncontentious in that post-war period, with one commentator stating: "It is perfectly clear from this Bill that what Scotland has now to decide upon is whether we are going to have Karl Marx or Jesus Christ."
Instead, they preferred to steer an
uncontentious middle course through this Sino-US rivalry.
The usually
uncontentious selection has become even more vexed as the deputy mayor - presently Labour's Hillary Bills - is traditionally selected by the full council.
Politicians are then forced to push through legislation that is
uncontentious and gets cross party support.
When employees experience unfair treatment by supervisors or managers of organizations, they tend to retaliate by adopting the behavior of silence, withdrawal, or other evasive behavioral strategies that are comparatively safe and
uncontentious, rather than perform explicit, proactive, and counterproductive behaviors, such as open defiance against supervisors or damaging company property (e.g., Xu et al., 2015).
But waving Y Ddraig Goch and singing our anthem is easy, populist and
uncontentious.
The British Academy (2008:3) sees the pertinent considerations as including research that is relevant, timely, robust, widely applicable, accessible, interdisciplinary, involved from the outset with users, and including that which "supports] existing ideologies and [is]
uncontentious."
It should be equally
uncontentious to claim that the Scottish satirist and director Armando Iannucci is a past master in this genre, with his television comedies The Thick of It and Veep offering hilarious excoriations of, respectively, British and American politics.