Sentences with phrase «by controversy around»

Facebook can repair the damage caused by the controversy around its Beacon ad system if the company follows basic social etiquette.

Bloomberg describes him as «mildly amused» by the controversy around his actions.

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The anti-diversity memo read round the world — a controversial screed penned by a now - fired Google software engineer — has elicited plenty of controversy and debates around gender politics and the soundness of evolutionary psychology.

And Buffett was drawn into the controversy around the company this year, after Charlie Munger compared Valeant to ITT, one of the worst conglomerates every assembled by Wall Street.

Much coverage was given to the controversy around Steve's views against penal substitutionary atonement theology («Cross Purposes», September 2004) resulting in a symposium by the EA.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

Ironically, Pilate, who had tried to get around the controversy by letting Jesus go, is the one who ordered his execution.

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

After a lot of controversy surrounding him, Suarez turned around his image this 2013 - 2014 season by scoring goals like a goal machine and being one of the biggest team players.

I am constantly amazed by the amount of controversy around the subject.

Evans» comments this morning follow controversy at the weekend when current Ukip leader Nigel Farage seemed to suggest that the legal action around Brexit could trigger riots by pro-Leave campaigners.

On Friday, the Hayworth camp dismissed the controversy around Townsend's comments as a manufactured controversy by the campaign of their Democratic opponent Rich Becker.

Joe Connor, whose father, Frank Connor, was killed in the Fraunces Tavern bombing, said he was disgusted by the invitation extended to Lopez Rivera — as well as Mayor de Blasio's tiptoeing around the controversy.

After controversy arose around a closed - door board meeting held by the Fort Schuyler Management Corp., which plays a role in managing construction of Buffalo Billion projects, the board voted unanimously to open the meetings to the public from now on.

Malpass came on the show to discuss his new role as an economic advisor to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign, which occurred right around the same time that Perry debuted his optional 20 percent flat tax proposal — and then promptly stepped on his own message by reigniting the controversy over President Obama's birth certificate.

Museums around the world are wrestling with the implications of a decision, by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to indefinitely postpone a Chuck Close exhibition because of allegations of sexual harassment involving potential portrait models that have engulfed the prominent artist in controversy.

The controversy centres around their use of the GSR app, developed by the Cambridge University research Dr Aleksandr Kogan.

Like I said, these lies and controversies were concocted by opposition apologists and they are doing this because 2019 is around the corner.

Northern Ireland Assembly members will convene today to debate the controversy over letters which were sent to around 180 paramilitary suspects after being recalled by First Minister Peter Robinson.

Controversy has swirled around the buildings — only one of which, the Tin Building, is landmarked — as plans by Howard Hughes Corporation to redevelop the Seaport called for tearing down the New Market Building and building a massive residential tower in its place.

THE controversies swirling around the imminent new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, have badly hurt confidence in psychiatric diagnosis.

The controversy centres around the inclusion of refrigerant - producing factories that generate the powerful greenhouse gas HFC 23 as a by - product.

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Though it generated a certain amount of controversy and wasn't loved by all, I thought John Michael McDonagh's Calvary was an interesting and ambitious film that dared to build its story around a good priest.

Nervous executives pulled it from theaters, but by the time Silent Night, Deadly Night hit home video, it already had a cult following built around the controversy.

I was also fascinated by the story of the Ocean Hill - Brownsville controversy — whereby black leaders demanding «community control» wanted to fire many white, Jewish teachers — and the scars it might leave in terms of teachers» psychology around job protections.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a set of guidelines that were developed by a group of governors and state superintendents and set forth what students should know and be able to do in English Language Arts and mathematics, has incited a great deal of controversy both in North Carolina and around the nation.

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

A controversy is currently swirling around Allegiant by Veronica Roth, the final volume of the YA dystopian trilogy that began with Divergent.

Crufts was hit by controversy after the BBC screened a documentary last year which exposed serious health issues around breeding practices for some breeds of pedigree dogs.

Robinsons responds to questions about the controversy that sometimes swirls around TNR and how best to treat feral and homeless cats — including from the perspective of wildlife advocates, factions of veterinarians and others who oppose TNR — the study by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service, and more.

But for the first year ever, the Yulin controversy reached Chinese President Xi Jinping in the form of a formal resolution drafted by U.S. Congressman Alcee Hastings (D - Fla), and a letter from HSI — along with the signatures of 11 million people from around the world — calling on China to shut down the festival and ban the trade.

Although there has been recent controversy lately over the Sherpas around Mt. Everest, these expert travel guides are required by the Nepalese government and ensure safety for climbers during their trek up the mountain.

But whatever controversy that was caused by the «pop - up storybook» visuals used in 1998's Yoshi's Story, both groups came around.

These are the controversies that defined the year by leaving a lasting impression and at the very least causing a significant stir around the web.

Ofili seemed to thrive on controversy around his work: in 1999, the New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani was appalled up by the «sacrilegious content» of Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary posed pregnant against a backdrop interspersed with close - ups of women's genitalia cut from men's porn magazines, and he blocked the planned exhibition at Brooklyn Art Museum.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

The controversy around Verdier's claims has likely been heightened by their timing, with his book coming just weeks before the start of a much - anticipated UN climate change summit, known as COP21, to be held in Paris at the end of November.

The controversy about the modern version of the sea level record is referred to by Jerry Mitrovica at around 45.54

... a former NCAR director now serves as trustee on the boards of several environmental non-governmental organizations; Stephen Schneider and other scientists published in a book on global warming edited and published by Greenpeace; and when controversies such as that around the IPCC chapter 8 erupt, the involved scientists often exchange Emails with representatives of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Ozone Action.

Ofcom also said that its impartiality rules did not apply to the majority of the film, because the rules require balance on «matters of political or industrial controversy» and human - induced climate change has «been almost universally accepted by governments around the world.»

Those PhD's then proceed to dwell on the manufactured controversies around the politics, as if J&J Public can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance».

It's only tangentially related to climate change discussions, but a microclimate in Death Valley, California has given rise to some interesting physical effects and much controversy regarding the ways big heavy rocks can be seen to have moved around on the bottom of a playa lake, untouched by external, unnatural forces.

The ensuing backdating controversy now revolves around the question of whether the companies» reaction to the rule requiring expensing stock options unless priced at market by backdating them is either ethical or legal.

The social network is in the eye of a controversy storm, with fake news, Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica swirling around Menlo Park.

The findings in many ways mirror the explosive controversy around the unauthorized collection of Facebook data by the elections firm Cambridge Analytica.

It's clear that controversies like this — underpinned by conspiracy theories around planned obsolescence — sprout up because there is a lack of communication between device manufacturers like Apple and consumers.

Today, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the self - regulatory association responsible for rating the content of video games, responded to the mounting controversy around the industry's shift toward microtransactions, specifically the gambling - style loot box systems favored by the world's most popular competitive multiplayer titles.