Before the border became a bone of contention, Alemu's family used to move freely across it.
Mubarak's health has been a bone of contention during his trial and incarceration.
North Korea would probably need outside help to make a uranium weapon, but its missile sales also a bone of contention with America have won it friends in strange places.
Yet a bone of contention remains: Government investigators who'd visited the farm in Suffolk said hygiene standards were lax, with uncovered vents and gulls taking meat from open waste bins.
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He became the prince of the great-room, making its pleasures available to everyone he favored with his friendship (and making the unsupervised beer keg a bone of contention at family dinners all over the neighborhood).
On the issue of a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe -- a bone of contention with Russia -- Biden said the United States will remain firm in defending against the nuclear threat, and he said Washington aims to work together with Moscow.
The BBC's Solomon Mugera in Nairobi says the issue of spoiled ballots has become a major bone of contention, and the election commission would take a final decision about what to do with them once all votes are counted.
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The number of rejected ballots, which have become a major bone of contention, currently stands at 58, 644.
Our correspondent says the large number of spoiled ballots - about 6% of the total vote, well over double the number of votes cast for the third-placed candidate, Musailia Mudavadi - has become a major bone of contention.
At controversial meetings, such as the Nice summit last December, the text becomes a serious bone of contention, with every comma argued over.
Now, with respect to Prime Minister Netayanhu and the Middle East, a major bone of contention during the course of this month is going to be the potential lapse of the settlement moratorium.
That narrow defeat, which hinged on a controversial refereeing decision, is a major bone of contention between the two sides and will add an extra dimension to what is already sizing up to be a thrilling encounter.
The FIA's biggest bone of contention appears to be a significant reduction in the number of board seats small broker members can vote on under the new organization, to three from the 16 governor seats on which they can currently vote.
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