Sentences with phrase «by controversy as»

In fact, Women has been surrounded by controversy as media speculate on Cohen's possible stake, both as a collector and a businessman playing the art market, in the public display of his collection.

While charter school expansion is part of an education privatization movement favored by Republicans in particular, who say families need more choice when it comes to kids» educational options, the movement has been dogged by controversy as several charter schools have abruptly closed almost as soon as they opened due to financial and governance problems.

It's surrounded by some controversy as it claims to be a based on a true story but there's not a lot of corroborative testimony from the central characters to justify its narrative.

«I do not want the work of the committee and the publication of the report to be, in any way, distracted or affected by controversy as to my personal position.

Juve hold a 3 - 1 lead from the meeting in Turin last month, which was dominated by controversy as the Bianconeri were awarded two penalties.

The Western wing of the Catholic Church was not as much disturbed by the controversy as was the East but participated in it.

Not exact matches

Fortune's analysis of public documents found that, of the 28 teams that played Sunday in the heat of the controversy, at least 5 are owned by people who have donated to either Trump's campaign or inauguration committee, with some providing checks as large as $ 1 million.

From the 1960s on, some of the most popular, esteemed auto giants have been embroiled in controversy and lawsuits as investigations — by the media and regulators — linked engineering and safety problems to injuries and deaths.

As some suggest, they didn't need Twitter until they were so moved by the GamerGate controversy to create an account.

The Tinder team has faced various controversies since starting up, such as complaints that users were being baited by bots disguised as real people.

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

The president was dogged by the persisting political controversies as he tended to diplomatic duties during a visit with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

The new cans court a different kind of controversy by painting Budweiser, the self - proclaimed King of Beers, as a «local» product.

The news of Greyball comes as Uber struggles with several company mishaps and controversies, including allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee and co-founder Travis Kalanick's outburst at one of the company's drivers.

As long - time Google reporter Danny Sullivan points out, changes to the results may also be shaped by recent search activity in response to the controversy, and the arrival of new websites optimized to return queries about the Holocaust.

Earlier this year, Honest Co. co-founder Brian Lee stepped down as CEO, following a controversy over certain product ingredients, and was replaced by former Clorox executive Nick Vlahos.

Given their unique relationship, many people assume that Litecoin's creator, Charlie Lee, created the cryptocurrency to serve as a direct rival to Bitcoin — an assumption that is certainly driven by the many news outlets report it as such to drum up controversy!

As usual, it generated some controversy, dismissed by the Government over the impact of the job losses resulting from the proposed spending reductions, but embraced by the Opposition, for acknowledging the job losses.

After a year that has seen Apple's reputation tested by controversy over the way its Chinese production partners treated low - paid workers, observers said Cook might have seen an opportunity to bolster the company's image as a socially responsible and progressive force.

When I asked about the controversies that Facebook is currently embroiled in (Russia meddling, out - of - control ad platform, data abuse by third - party developers, tech addiction), Cook called out advertising - based business as problematic.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

Silence by Facebook's two top executives — Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg — fanned the flames of the controversy for days as U.S. and European lawmakers demanded answers and Facebook shares tumbled.

Thus the size of the total short physical position continues to stir controversy, with Gold Fields Minerals Services sticking to its estimate of 4000 to 5000 tonnes notwithstanding the mountain of research by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and its associates suggesting an amount two to three times as large.

A standoff between Justice Department officials and GOP lawmakers escalated Wednesday as President Donald Trump waded into a controversy over demands to release a highly sensitive document outlining who and what is being investigated by special counsel...

That did not last long as the controversies piled up high in the wake of an explosive blog post by a former female engineer, Susan Fowler, who has become the straw that broke Uber's bro back.

The National Atheist Party has considered the controversy surrounding the «cross» as a part of the 9/11 memorial, especially in regards to the comments made by Dave Silverman, the President of American Atheists.

As an outsider, I can't help but wonder whether the pope and the USCCB were particularly provoked by Weinandy's suggestion that Jesus had allowed this controversy in order «to manifest just how weak is the faith of many within the Church, even among too many of her bishops.»

In the course of controversy the reformers were led to go further than they had intended at first, and to claim for the whole Bible indiscriminately, in and by itself, exposed as it now was to the possible vagaries of private interpretation, an absolute authority displacing that of the Catholic Church.

To this day there is controversy over whether Dante actually wrote the «Letter to Cangrande,» whose author overtly claims that he wrote the Comedy making use of the four senses of Scripture, almost exactly as these are defined by St. Thomas near the beginning of the Summa (I, i, 10).

Even assuming that Jesus» grave was known, which is by no means certain, it seems very possible that neither party was interested in it, or regarded the truth of Easter as dependent on it, until long after the event: until the period of the controversies reflected in Matthew, which would not arise until the empty tomb had become important in Christian thought about the Resurrection.

The apparent randomness as well as the struggling and unpredictable meanderings that science sees in evolution, and which have caused so much theological controversy, are just what we should expect if the world is in some way left to be itself by the non-interfering goodness of a self - emptying God.

As one who was a pastor during the «60s and early «70s I find it relatively easy to identify the issues faced by the church in those years which generated the most controversy and which from an institutional standpoint resulted in the greatest losses.

for there is no other name under heaven [than the name of Jesus] given among men by which we must be saved» (Acts 4:12) would inevitably evoke vigorous discussion and extensive controversy, especially coming as it did just when the theology of Karl Barth was emphasizing again the uniqueness of Jesus and the centrality of his claims.

And what appears to Lindsell as the imminent victory of apostasy may herald the emergence of new models of biblical authenticity and new realignments within American Protestantism that may actually serve to overcome the chasms opened up by the fundamentalist / modernist controversy of two generations ago.

Pro-life groups like Students for Life may be involved in work that pro-life advocates see as important and effective, but by perpetuating a controversy — if that was their intention — they risk isolating the very people who are fighting for the same cause.

In a 24/7 news cycle that is fueled by controversies, outrage, sensationalism and rhetoric, it's easy to view these sorts of tactics as effective tools in advancing our cause.

The strictures are severe enough; it is possible, as we have seen, that our reports of them have been colored by subsequent controversy.

Here, once again, there have been endless controversies as to the mode of that presence, controversies concerning Transubstantiation, Consubstantiation, Virtualism, Receptionism and the like — controversies whose acrimony has done little credit to those who are called by Christ's name.

However, the Church's theological discourse can not be so intimately bound to any one scientific theory, as «the final way» to explain something, that it becomes difficult to separate itself from such a theory, either because a theological doctrine itself can no longer be explained without it (which it can) or because a scientific theory has been superseded by a more coherent scientific theory (better able to explain reality) as is the nature of progress in science.There is a precedent for this in the Galileo controversy from the 1600s.

As you may have heard, renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltkeresigned from his position at Reformed Theological Seminary last week amidst controversy surrounding statements he made in support of evolutionary theory in a video posted by the BioLogos foundation.

The controversy, however, is not over whether Wright is a Christian but whether he is right in saying, as Senator Obama has also said, that he represents the black church and, by extension, the black community.

Consider, as an example, the controversies surrounding the recent work of Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on the ethical and jurisprudential implications of pornography: their conclusion is that pornography, by its very existence, makes the exercise of full citizenship an impossibility for women, and that therefore making such literature illegal is not only consistent with, but is properly implied by, the Constitution of the United States.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

As for the First Things part of his subtitle, Moore is referring of course to the controversy over «the judicial usurpation of politics,» and to the attacks by neoconservatives, notably in Commentary magazine, on arguments appearing in these pages.

«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.

David J. Bosch has described the controversies as a crisis «more radical and extensive than anything the Church has ever faced in her history «21 By the early 1970s there were serious misunderstandings between the Evangelicals and the Ecumenicals.

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

Read the Book of Genesis from start to finish, trying to take no breaks, trying to keep as - open - a-mind as possible, and trying (this is very difficult, but do please try) to forget that there is some apparent controversy between Creationism and the theory of evolution by natural selection.

A 2012 interview with US church leader Mark Driscoll, in which he caused controversy by criticising the quality of British preachers, led to him publicly attacking my journalistic integrity on his blog as well as questioning my theological credentials.

Brownback, who will end his seven year post as governor, was the centre controversy when he was nominated by US President Donald Trump for the role.