How To Use Controversy In A Sentence

  • But since the controversy is still very much alive, it seems advisable to take a new look at this issue.
  • It would have been a luxury to unfrock some of them, but it has seemed to me the duty of every sincere Republican to endure a great deal rather than say anything to introduce division or controversy into party ranks .... A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
  • Several other recent transfers have been accompanied by a strong whiff of controversy.
  • There has been a huge controversy over where to put the city's new sports stadium and who should build it.
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  • Yet marital relations were a constant theme of controversy, discussion, humour and, of course, song.
  • Irvine has presented a detailed analysis of the controversy regarding the role of these two inositol phosphates in regulating calcium entry.
  • It hasn't been the source of controversy or congratulation.
  • In the 1960s, open-plan offices were introduced, though not without some controversy.
  • One assumes other factors were at work, perhaps clinical depression, so that the medal controversy precipitated his decision.
  • The second chapter, by quoting a typical case, compares the different opinions on the legal nature of import bill discount, which is the key of the controversy on legislation.
  • But at least one religious leader believes the ability to use dedifferentiation to create human stem cells would eliminate the controversy. Cells That Go Back in Time
  • Unfortunately for both, their careers took a nosedive after they both became embroiled in controversy.
  • They kept a low profile until the controversy had alated.
  • Kartel favors the beat-driven fusion of reggae and rap known as dancehall that has stoked controversy across the Caribbean. Undefined
  • Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Scientists and thinkers have struggled with the controversy and its implications for humanity for decades.
  • The President resigned amid considerable controversy.
  • Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
  • Much of this controversy stemmed from the argument of mechanism versus vitalism.
  • The recent food-poisoning scare has reignited debate/concern/controversy over farming methods.
  • The memorials of the saint's activity in Paris have thus survived, but even the date of his apostolate is a matter of controversy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • There has been controversy over whether international trade affects domestic price level.
  • The controversy surrounding the take-over yesterday continued to reverberate around the television industry.
  • In the past few years he has turned his attention to achieving similar results for upper and lower limb amputees and has generated similar controversy.
  • The controversy reached such a pitch that the paper devoted a whole page to it.
  • This ambivalence over the simplicity or complexity of the discarnate soul became a point of controversy among later Platonists.
  • The application of intracranial stent - angioplasty has been in controversy.
  • Our reporter joins us now with controversy that surrounds these sexy women dancing in these racy videos.
  • Although his farms attracted many distinguished visitors, including Sir Robert Peel, he became the centre of great controversy.
  • Then came a moment of low farce and high controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wolf ended her life in her beloved Berlin, doubly exiled in her own country and shorn of her faith, left only with Was bleibt – what remains, the title of the account of being under surveillance by the Stasi that she wrote in 1979, and that aroused considerable controversy when published in 1990. Christa Wolf obituary
  • Former prime minister Ivan Kostov has stirred up further controversy on the Brady bond swop with a letter urging his successor Simeon Saxe-Coburg to call off the deal.
  • Though angry, both sides quickly sought to defuse the controversy.
  • But the greatest controversy concerns the character of the racist cop who pursues Carter vindictively, lying, cheating and forging a signature in an effort to frame him.
  • Meanwhile, in this controversy, it is ex-ministers and their staffers who have been depoliticised.
  • That said, his maverick tendencies are becoming almost a trademark of the man, and I'd wager a punt or two that he'll be courting controversy again before we next go to the polls.
  • But Sanders said the controversy is a misunderstanding. Victoria Advocate - Navy says candidate was no SEAL
  • Jon Taylor, the man at the center of the controversy, said he was "manhandled" by police from Louisa, Va. Democrat Pushed To The Ground, Arrested By Local Police At Eric Cantor Public Event (VIDEO)
  • On appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the Lower Court's ruling, but not without some controversy.
  • This ended the controversy and at last the Sutton villagers were able to be buried in their own churchyard.
  • A bitter controversy about the siting of the airport is rumbling in the designing institute.
  • Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
  • The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death.
  • The continuing, and heated, judicial debate on racial preference indicates that the ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
  • Controversy, too, continues to surround the abortion issue.
  • It attracted controversy for using the sound of breaking wind in an advert which parodied over-consumption.
  • The match was marred by controversy over the Wales try. Times, Sunday Times
  • They went out to shoot at the sides of trucks after playing "Grand Theft Auto III," the bestselling PlayStation 2 shoot'em-up that has become synonymous with the controversy over violent video games. THE NEWS BLOG
  • Cyril has stuck his beak in controversy throughout his career.
  • I'd put in eight weeks of training, but the controversy has narked me a bit.
  • The controversy began last week, when Denny's launched a promotion for pancakes and French fries that supposedly "commemorated" the famine's 150th anniversary. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • It emerged in public consciousness as a reaction to Charles Darwin and the evolution controversy.
  • There has been some controversy in sexology about which is more important for healthy sexuality in couples: increasing the security of the bond or developing more differentiation and my position is that we need both. Linda E. Savage: Enhancing Sexual Energy
  • Gibson pursues extortion charges: People magazine reports that controversy-courter Mel Gibson plans to present evidence to detectives proving that Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his eighth child, is attempting to extort money from him. Celebritology Weekend: Angelina Jolie in D.C.; "Today" show welcomes gay weddings
  • This will inevitably generate heated controversy, fuelled by continuing confusion over the technologies.
  • But it's already created quite a bit of controversy.
  • Thanks to recent controversy, this last visit has taken on a greater importance than usual.
  • The controversy was highlighted by a radio commentator. Times, Sunday Times
  • The director is just using the controversy to hype his movie.
  • Whilst the textbook controversy could be seen as simply a repetition of previous incidents, the events of April are significant because of the scale and vehemence of the protests.
  • The clamor of controversy sometimes provoked the emperor to exclaim, “Hear me! the Franks have heard me, and the Alemanni;” but he soon discovered that he was now engaged with more obstinate and implacable enemies; and though he exerted the powers of oratory to persuade them to live in concord, or at least in peace, he was perfectly satisfied, before he dismissed them from his presence, that he had nothing to dread from the union of the Christians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level.
  • The controversy is heating up just days after voters overwhelmingly turned down a ballot proposition to increase mountain lion hunting.
  • She is also very vocal with her opinions and this has sparked plenty of controversy.
  • For fans that believe a playoff is the only way to end the controversy, realize that there will always be controversy in the method of selecting teams, where to play and if it is the right way to select a champion. USATODAY.com - BCS is the best we have
  • Although the strike was called off, amid bitter controversy, it did benefit the Labour Party.
  • The band toured Ireland amid a storm of controversy.
  • The height of the bridge railing has long been a source of controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • Last year, Miley's "backless" photo lit a firestorm of controversy that's still burning in Search. Yahoo! Buzz Log
  • Controversy is being outweighed by catharsis as Cambodia faces up to its past.
  • Information gathered by them revealed that he was persuaded to cancel his visit today by the state government as it apprehended major controversy.
  • The story is set brilliantly in the context of ever changing social and scientific milieus, which often gave rise to controversy, some of which continues to this day.
  • As witnessed in the controversy over Ebonics, the mainstream discourse has focused on images of African Americans rather than the historical, cultural, and linguistic developments of Black English.
  • There is controversy about the management of pancreatic pseudocysts.
  • The prime minister seemed anxious to avoid controversy about these appointments.
  • He is young, inexperienced and he is prone to court controversy. The Sun
  • Another area of heightened tension is the controversy over the draft of the new constitution proposed by Mr Mugabe.
  • Greene resigned due to the controversy in September 2002, admitted he had a problem with womanizing and promptly disappeared.
  • Leave it to the entertainers to once again inject controversy into a telecast of a Super Bowl. USATODAY.com - Stones' real hot stuff doesn't air
  • One controversy centers on the utility of the Neanderthal thumb.
  • By an unwritten rule, they avoided controversy for the sake of good fellowship.
  • Myth, folklore and inaccuracy cloud this event, yet it still has the potency to cause controversy.
  • BIG BLUE WAVE: Bizarre twist in the Bill 34 controversy in Quebec: late-term abortionist AUTHOR of restrictive guidelines skip to main Bizarre twist in the Bill 34 controversy in Quebec: late-term abortionist AUTHOR of restrictive guidelines
  • A variety of celebrations are under consideration, including a pageant of the town's history, a statue although the subject continues to be a matter of controversy and a street party for children.
  • At about the summer solstice of 1999, Leo Marx ignited a controversy still running in ecocritical circles by attacking ecocentrism.
  • The controversy has arisen over the text of the preamble to the unification treaty.
  • I think a lot of the controversy comes from people just wanting to pick on megachurches.
  • Introduction Prior to the recent controversy over the transfer of arms, little international attention was devoted to Sierra Leone.
  • While a controversy ensued, Hansen rightfully received acknowledgment as the discoverer of the leprosy bacillus.
  • As a result of an unestablished link between long-haul flights and various medical conditions, the DVT controversy has involved numerous high-profile lawyers and politicians pushing for compensation.
  • The grant of the jurisdiction is not the same as it being a justiciable controversy arising under the Act.
  • This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle. England's Case Against Home Rule
  • If he does more, expect the controversy to be reignited. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can the would-be veep be trusted to obediently follow a campaign script without setting off controversy with potentially explosive remarks?
  • From the findings, flensed of any controversy (and, thus, wider attention), it would appear that a couple of minutes of white noise would do the trick just as nicely. Better Than Cialis? Researchers Say TV Ads Heighten Pleasure
  • Mikhail Men, governor of the Ivanovo region, chimed in that Mr. Belykh would pick up lots of new Twitter followers from the controversy. Kremlin Is Atwitter After Scolding by President
  • It seems uncontroverted that the film-makers injected the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy into North Country, suggesting it had a role in the events the film depicts, even though any such implication would be false.
  • But Sabavala seemed unwarrantedly shaken by the controversy, and hurt by it.
  • Changes such as these have mired the film in controversy even before it has opened in the UK.
  • The public has an insatiable appetite for scandal and political controversy.
  • Plans for the new campus have been dogged by controversy from the start.
  • Meanwhile, I've been playing around discovering a fascinating account of 19th century ornithological controversy over the taxonomy of the piping plover in the archival dust of Early Canadiana Online see my entry at The Plover Warden Diaries, reading about how it is that failure in the American quest for placelessness made the Monadnock Region what it is today, and cruising the web discovering the Greatest Software Ever Written. The quest for placelessness
  • He said that he hoped that the work had settled the controversy about the dangers of exercising in polluted cities. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Clinton campaign declared Senator Obama's speeches won't hide what it called his condescending views of small town America and speaking for the first time on the controversy, Senator McCain accused Senator Obama of elitism. CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008
  • A smaller - than - usual increase in China's - exchange reserves last quarter a - than - usual controversy.
  • He is again trying to distance himself from this week's controversy involving PEDs and a Miami clinic.
  • Having concerned himself with Arianism and Monophysitism, the matter of the Donatist controversy was brought to his attention by his friend Robert Williams.
  • The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
  • Holding on to an error when it is conclusively pointed out from scripture would be considered willful blindness. and remember the Trinitarian controversy at First Nicene Council was not about the divinity of Christ it was about whether the Son was co eternal with Father. Blind Faith?
  • This announcement is arousing far more controversy than the plan to cap the amount of benefit any family can receive. Conservative conference live - Monday 4 October
  • Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil. A History of American Christianity
  • Whitman told reporters after the debate the controversy is a sideshow from the issues Californians want to focus on, such as jobs and education. Whitman, Brown Spar Over Maid Scandal In Heated Debate
  • His inclusion in the team has caused controversy.
  • Later, he had made an honest error in refusing to elaborate on details of his credit card transactions which led him inadvertently into controversy.
  • Plans by the Government to buy the island and designate it as a national historic park have been dogged by controversy, including a legal wrangle over the past 20 years that went as far as the Supreme Court.
  • The controversy over precedence must be understood in this context.
  • The mayor and the city council are anxious to avoid getting entangled in the controversy.
  • Although the idea sounds rather straightforward, it is full of controversy because of changing technology, costs and societal expectations. Understanding Cancer
  • He elsewhere asserts very decidedly (without however giving reasons) that the Quartodeciman controversy turned on the point whether the 14th Nisan was the day of the Last Supper or the day of the Crucifixion, the Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • A bitter controversy about the siting of the airport is rumbling in the designing institute.
  • And it's likely to add fuel to the controversy about games and violence.
  • Eduard Buchner (1860–1917) discovered that zymase, a cell-free yeast extract, caused fermentation, thus resolving a long-standing controversy over “vital” and “inorganic” ferments. 1882
  • Except that several comments did in fact bring up campus speech codes, the Harvard email controversy and other such side issues as examples of “the left” and its censorious impulses. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
  • Its ambitions are narrowed to those which can be achieved with the least controversy and offend the fewest powerful interests.
  • The abandonment of Punchestown on Saturday was a disappointment particularly as the track executive had put so much effort into bringing punters in and getting the place kick started again after all the recent controversy and troubles.
  • The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
  • A key pressure point in the controversy was the building permit.
  • The English political parties and religious denominations are satirized in the description of the wearers of high heels and low heels, and of the controversy on the question whether eggs should be broken at the big or small end.
  • The Black Knight sketch has also been mentioned in connection with this controversy – with opposing candidates for who is the hackee and who is the hacker. Hits « Climate Audit
  • There has been a certain degree of controversy in recent years over the practice of self-investment by pension funds.
  • Two years ago, the cricket club caused controversy when it held its first large-scale concert by chart-topping boy band Blue.
  • The new parliament remains the centre of controversy as building costs escalate.
  • Controversy surrounds the TV show, which many consider to be racist, sexist, and homophobic.
  • Despite the controversy over back taxes or the increased royalty rate on syncrude projects (see above), existing Orinoco operators are also showing interest in expanding their projects in the area. Energy profile of Venezuela
  • The condemnation follows recent controversy in the US where a rash of product recalls has provoked a safety panic over free gifts.
  • Political Pluralism and the Media Media analysis often arouses controversy, not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications.
  • It will do well to escape the controversy of its problematic production, which has raised questions about the scrutiny afforded to public funding of film in Scotland.
  • The controversy reached a fever pitch when Almontaser was quoted defending the use of the word intifada on a T-shirt. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2007
  • Much controversy has surrounded Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb.
  • There was further controversy over the advantage law. Times, Sunday Times
  • He reveals to Dan Jones how he detonated the sparks of controversy.
  • At the core of the controversy were insistent African demands for greater participation in government and European fears of losing political control.
  • Yet marital relations were a constant theme of controversy, discussion, humour and, of course, song.
  • The controversy raged for almost a century before an exasperated American anatomist pointed out that "English-speaking researchers were pulling down English-language publications and non-English-speakers were dipping into exclusively non-English publications and both camps were simply rehashing what they'd read. China's Cuddly Emissaries
  • Yun Mei's request has set a firestorm of controversy.
  • The controversy will focus attention on the macho culture that can exist in elite sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Indian internet community has also been abuzz with discussions on the controversy surrounding Varun Gandhi's inflammatory anti-Muslim speech and subsequent imprisonment, the incidents of shoe-throwing against Congress politicians P Chidambambaram and Naveen Jindal and BJP leader L K Advani, and the election campaigns of writer Shashi Tharoor, danseuse Mallika Sarabhai and ABN AMRO India chief Meera Sanyal. Global Voices in English » India’s First Digital Elections Evoke Strong Reactions Online
  • The proposed cuts have caused considerable controversy.
  • But from the outset this drive has been mired in controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's.
  • Your next partnership choice may cause controversy. The Sun
  • When she released her first album in 1994, a storm of controversy erupted.
  • He will knowingly enter a mild scuffle of controversy not of his own making.
  • Yet with The Quiet American, Noyce aims at verity, not controversy; he seeks admission, not outrage.
  • Much controversy surrounds what happened next. Cultural Anthropology
  • Controversy is a part of health instruction for a number of reasons. An Introduction to Community Health
  • For more than 80 years electricity pylons have been a source of fierce controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The controversy provided a rare occasion for agreement between the ruling right and opposition left.
  • Introduction Prior to the recent controversy over the transfer of arms, little international attention was devoted to Sierra Leone.
  • He refused to be dragged into unnecessary political controversy and instead reposed his trust in the discretion of his voters who all are celebrated writers drawn from 22 languages of India.
  • The government is taking care not to rush headlong into another controversy.
  • American moviemakers and studio executives have always been slower to respond to social unrest, perhaps out of fear that controversy will scare away audiences.
  • This was my first exposure to the raging storm of the creation-day controversy.
  • This ascription has notoriously become a matter of debate and controversy in the modern era.
  • It was a strangely subdued build-up to a fixture that has not been short of controversy, unseemly spats and acrimony in recent seasons. Times, Sunday Times
  • Controversy surrounded the early years of the priest's incumbency due to accusations from local newspapers of increased levels of ‘Popish and Pagan mummeries’ within St Michael's services.
  • We must allow the yatra and the darshans of Lord Shiva to be without any controversy and hidden commercial undertones.
  • There was a big controversy surrounding/over the use of drugs in athletics.
  • The controversy centred on the issue of compensation for the victims.
  • A shop owner has vowed to continue selling "golly" dolls, despite the controversy which surrounds the toys. Ashby de la Zouch: Golliwog capital of Britain
  • But the speaker is not a wealthy man and could dip into campaign coffers, causing more controversy.
  • The speech has resulted in a firestorm of controversy.
  • Introduction Despite historical controversy the umbilical cord is generally clamped immediately, particularly after preterm delivery.
  • They went out to shoot at the sides of trucks after playing "Grand Theft Auto III," the bestselling PlayStation 2 shoot'em-up that has become synonymous with the controversy over violent video games. THE NEWS BLOG
  • The introduction of the community charge aroused considerable controversy around three main issues.
  • The Hubble already has helped fuel a raging controversy over the true age of the universe.
  • Controversy erupts between George and Jerry over whether Lupe, the chambermaid at their hotel, should tuck or untuck the sheets on their beds.
  • Unsurprisingly, Wundt, and others, refused to accept these new methods and conclusions, and a heated debate, the so called imageless thought controversy, ensued. His Name Was Do Re Mi
  • In this, Ken played a drama instructor caught up in the then current controversy over corporal punishment.
  • Any controversy over the new legal framework would give ammunition to Mr Meacher's critics within the party.
  • Whenever there arises a controversy, he tries to keep his feet clean of it.
  • There's no more use of the word "jackass," which created a mild controversy over the original. NYT > Home Page
  • Throughout their careers, the volatile brothers have courted controversy and rarely been out of the celebrity gossip pages.
  • From the Arian controversy he learned that it was a mistake to distinguish the persons by their attributes.
  • Together they have two sons: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 2, a Malawian orphan they adopted last year amid controversy that they had violated international adoption laws.
  • Kept a low profile until the controversy had abated.
  • So keeping a low profile avoids getting embroiled in political controversy, which is the proper province of the elected Diet.
  • The structure called the Ries (or Rieskessel) is the subject of some controversy-one school of thought accepting it as an astrobleme, while another holds it to be the result of a cryptovolcanic explosion that brought to the surface "meteoritelike" materials. The Golden Torc
  • The development had brought with it uninspired malls, colossal grocery stores, and near-constant controversy as builders encroached farther into the desert with each passing month. The Sins of Brother Curtis
  • The cost of filling up with petrol has fuelled endless controversy. Is petrol in the UK the most expensive in Europe?
  • I can't see the controversy in producing books and literature that reflects today's society.
  • Whether the criminal intention includes the understanding of illegality is still a controversy.
  • The accusations will reignite controversy over how much tax big companies pay in Britain. The Sun
  • Controversy has raged around the drug most widely used to calm such children, Ritalin, which is of the amphetamine family. Hyperactive children may suffer from genetic disorder, says study
  • In almost every other part of the Muslim world, controversy over female headgear is growing. The Economist: Muslims and the Veil
  • The take-over of church powers added greatly to the patronage of the monarch but also involved him more directly in religious disputation at a time when the waves of controversy were beginning to run high.
  • The game also saw eight yellow cards but although there was controversy there were few clear-cut chances. The Sun
  • This bespoke greater intellectual confidence than was to be evident at later stages of controversy.

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