Sentences with phrase «by controversy for»

Justin Kurzel's directorial debut was marred by controversy for telling the true story of the «Bodies in Barrels Murders», which occurred in Snowtown, a tiny town north of Adelaide, and were committed by Australia's most notorious serial killer John Bunting.

Doyle has been surrounded by controversy for much of the year with the biggest potential problem concerning the indictment of a state employee for fixing — no pun intended — state contracts.

Not exact matches

But, anyone hoping for more fireworks between the two onetime foes, had to settle for what appeared to be a feud - ending chat marked more by civility than controversy.

Melania Trump's office is pushing back after the first lady ignited some controversy by emerging for her visit to hurricane - stricken Texas in a pair of stiletto heels.

United had spent the last two weeks embroiled in controversy after videos recorded by fellow passengers, which went viral, showed David Dao, 69, yanked from his seat aboard a Louisville, Kentucky - bound United flight before takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to make room for crew members.

Earlier this year, the FBI sparked a major controversy by seeking to force Apple to develop hacking tools for breaking into iPhones.

It has also faced controversy, having been targeted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for its use of coyote fur in its jackets.

The renewed ring controversy comes at a time when Fox News is under fire from the Kremlin, which wants an apology for comments made by commentator Bill O'Reilly.

JPMorgan also created controversy in metal markets by trying to launch a physical copper exchange - traded fund for small investors, which would have been backed by metal stored in Henry Bath sheds.

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

The initial concerns voiced by the companies are for the optics of the controversy.

Tim Hortons has brewed up controversy for its decision to yank ads by pipeline giant Enbridge from its in - store screens and Calgary Conservative MPs Jason Kenney, Michelle Rempel and Joan Crockatt took the chain to task on Twitter.

There was also controversy over the registration of underage creators and for working with «reply girls» who win clicks by posting seductive videos.

AT&T is wading into controversy by announcing that it will give customers of its new U-verse GigaPower broadband service some extra privacy — for a fee.

The controversy over Price was a catalyst for Congress launching a bipartisan probe of travel by political appointees across the administration.

The earnings report followed weeks of tumult for Facebook, after a controversy erupted last month when The New York Times and other news outlets reported that millions of Facebook users» private information had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.

The controversy surrounds the production of Tesla's Model 3, which is the electric car maker's maiden vehicle designed for the mainstream, and the company's cash burn, the latter of which took Wall Street by surprise.

Controversy erupted for Facebook last month after revelations that millions of users» private information had been harvested by a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.

The controversy over BC Hydro rate increases began last March when the company announced plans to increase electricity prices by nearly ten per cent for the next three years.

In the event that we are not able to resolve a dispute, we each agree that any and all disputes, controversies, or claims arising under, arising out of, or relating in any way to this agreement, or the contractual relationship established by this agreement (whether in contract, tort, or under any statute, regulation, ordinance, or any other source of law) shall be resolved on an individual basis through binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association, in accordance with the American Arbitration Association's rules for arbitration of consumer - related disputes (accessible at https://www.adr.org/aaa/faces/rules)(except that you may assert individual claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify).

Encryption technology is still sparking controversy, however, with the FBI and other agencies arguing that it's very tough for them to crack and it favors terrorists, criminals, and other threatening entities by allowing them to plan their hits.

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.

He was also implicated in controversy surrounding an outing by Uber executives to a Korean karaoke bar where women, who had numbers pinned to them, could be selected by male patrons for company.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

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.

When running for the PC leadership last year, Jim Prentice promised to restore trust in a PC Party badly damaged by former Premier Alison Redford, but the latest nomination controversies undermine his promise and will likely increase cynicism among Alberta voters.

Company CEO Travis Kalanick's call on Sunday for an internal investigation into a sexual harassment claim by a female engineer is the latest in a litany of controversies that have dogged the largest of unicorns, one with a market value of nearly $ 70 billion and climbing.

Instead of spending their time for used on their main mission, these groups would be wasting it on controversies ginned up by these interlopers.

The move comes after a letter — signed by Kensrue and several fellow church leaders — asking that Pastor Mark Driscoll step down for a time and seek «restoration» following numerous controversies, was leaked to the media.

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.

The point that emerges from Anna Foa's researches, however, is that the question of access to this huge archive has quite wrongly dominated the whole controversy of what the pope did or didn't do for the Jews for many years, with frequent insinuations that the archive's inaccessibility was motivated by attempts to suppress the shameful secrets it supposedly contains.

An occasion for controversy was afforded by the presence of a man afflicted with dropsy.

In fact, however, Paul V for example never decided the controversy on grace which greatly exercised the minds at the time and which was endlessly debated by theological commissions in Rome.

A mysterious deeper unity is presupposed even by the most violent controversy, which we may not avoid merely for a quiet life.

The controversy raged for two years, the final showdown coming in the 1916 General Council, where trinitarians won by a decisive two - thirds vote.

That novel cemented Rushdie's literary fame, but he became even more famous for the controversy stirred by his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.

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.

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.

Not only that, but many of the biblical passages that people find the most troubling, and the most likely to be «mistaken», are affirmed willy - nilly by Jesus and the apostles with complete disregard for any subsequent controversies that might emerge.

First, I am currently writing commentary on Luke 6:1 - 10, where Jesus has Sabbath day controversies with the Jewish religious leaders, and I was hoping the book could shed some light on the statement by Jesus that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Although more rhetorical names for this protracted struggle are often used, especially by the protagonists on each side, «the Controversy» remains the most neutral descriptor.

Yes, and I find it ironic that this symbol of Christian fanaticism is the source of controversy for a tragedy that was caused by Islamic fanaticism.

To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering of others.

While that effort has been applauded by many for being a fitting, emotional telling of one of the darkest days in U.S. history, it is not without its controversies.

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.

This movie came out of the gate with controversy for whitewashing the role of the «Ancient One» — a character who had been Tibetan in the comics, played in the movie by Tilda Swinton.

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.

From its initial announcement, the Peters Projection has been surrounded by controversy: in over 40 articles on the subject, cartographers have vigorously denounced a number of Peters's claims for the map, while he and his supporters have argued that his is the only world map that meets the concerns of people interested in social issues.

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.