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One must always remember that the burden of proof is on the person making a contentious claim.

Perry went on to remind everyone of his contentious claim to have created half a million jobs in Texas.

Some, particularly on the left, accused the Legion of being a fascist organisation, but this is a contentious claim.

South Africa is the typical case study used for giving sanctions credibility, though that is a contentious claim itself.

The most contentious claim made by Dr. Ericsson is that practice alone, not natural talent, makes for a record-breaking performance.

The book also argued that the Science Wars were primarily fought by non-scientists who were pushing contentious claims about the dubiousness of scientific objectivity.

The most contentious claims have been his promotion of no-touch knock-outs, kiai knock-outs, and increasing technique effectiveness based on sound and color.

Philosopher John Deely has argued for the contentious claim that the label "postmodern" for thinkers such as Derrida et al. is premature.

Among his more contentious claims is that international transfer of players under 18 is in fact a form of illegal "child trafficking" and should be prohibited by the EU.

This was a contentious claim, however, insofar as the CIA had conducted psychological operations against the Iraqis, such as dropping leaflets over the Army's positions prior to the invasion.

The most contentious claim is that the league's vice president of security, Horace Balmer, and some of his staff destroyed notes from interviews conducted with Warriors players a day after the incident.

Book 11: Eastern Territory (April 2001) - Surveys a land of opportunity that has, for the time being, managed to achieve a precarious balance amidst heated disputes and contentious claims of dominion.

One contentious claim is that many of the fossils show signs of bilateral symmetry, a common feature in many modern-day animals which is usually assumed to have evolved later, during the Cambrian Explosion.

This is a contentious claim, since Lewis's realism about parallel worlds extends to worlds that are not physically possible, such as the world where Harry Potter was schooled at Hogwarts, whereas the parallel worlds in Deutsch's multiverse comprise all and only physically possible worlds.

Borrowing one of John Dewey's most famous and most contentious claims, Rorty, who is University Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that some philosophical views - almost all philosophical views, in fact - take a "spectatorial" view of the world and therefore of human life.