Use "contentious" in a sentence

1. Amicable settlement and contentious proceedings

Gütliche Beilegung und gerichtliches Verfahren

2. The orientation and mode of life of solutes are contentious; our new morphofunctional data strongly suggest that Dehmicystis was oriented with the ambulacrum on the upper surface.

Orientierung und Lebensweise der Soluta sind umstritten.