English-Swedish translations for bone of contention

• stridsäpple ett
  Det skulle tjäna alla länder i regionen, och särskilt Turkiet, om detta stridsäpple försvinner.It would be in the widely acknowledged common interest of all countries in our region, especially Turkey, to resolve this bone of contention.
• tvistefrö ett
  Detta har verkligen varit ett tvistefrö.Certainly in Scotland that has been a bone of contention.
  Ett annat tvistefrö är frågan om saxfällor och importen av djurpälsar.Another bone of contention is the question of leghold traps and imports of furs.
  Frågan om nödhamnar har varit ett tvistefrö mellan parlamentet och rådet.The issue of ports of refuge has been a bone of contention between Parliament and the Council.

Definition of bone of contention

• Something that continues to be disputed; something on which no agreement can be reached

Examples

• It is still a bone of contention whether to go ahead with the original plan in light of the new evidence.

Related words

• bone of contention; apple of discord
• coffin bone
• fracture (of a bone
• petrous portion of the temporal bone
• fracture of a bone
• splitting of the bone
• bag of bones