Example sentences for: controversy

How can you use “controversy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As mentioned, the pronunciations are British: the variant pronunciation of controversy , in which the stress is on the (shortened) second syllable, is shown, but that is not heard in the US; neither is the given pronunciation of intermediary , which ends \?\ in BE but /\?

  • And indeed, other than the Bush cocaine controversy, the opinion mafia has little to say this week that is new: George Will ( This Week ) attacks John McCain for being a waffler on the abortion issue.

  • In Britain, a long-running controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops took on aspects of a constitutional battle after Prince Charles defied Prime Minister Tony Blair by publishing an article Tuesday in the Daily Mail criticizing the regulations governing their production.

  • However, despite a considerable amount of associative evidence [ 7 ] , there has long been some controversy on this issue [ 29 30 31 ] because of apparent discrepancies in the temporal pattern of calbindin D9k induction compared to calcium absorption following 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D treatment in experimental animals.

  • NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich, who reported on his share of culture-war skirmishes as the paper's chief theater critic in the 1980s and early '90s, weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum's week-old exhibit "Sensation."


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