Sentences with phrase «controversial names on»

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The name of Abe's wife, Akie, was removed from documents related to the controversial sale of state - owned land, Kyodo News reported on Monday, citing a government source.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

But others are calling the controversial jersey, with the name «Jesus» on the back in place of «Tebow,» blasphemous.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

Rory McIlroy may have been in the midst of winning his first PGA Tour contest since 2016 on Sunday, but that doesn't mean he missed Patrick Reed's controversial run - in with a rules official during the Arnold Palmer Invitational finale in which the frustrated «Captain America» took Jordan Spieth's name in vain.

Two big names are unsettled at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, and they join a long list of famous players and managers who simply didn't get on with the controversial Dutchman...

The Uruguayan looked to have turned a corner in the past 12 months and had put his controversial past behind him, instead concentrating on helping the Merseysiders to success by scoring 31 Premier League goals and being named PFA Player of the Year.

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On January 19th the FDA released a cautionary statement naming controversial chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) as a safety risk.

In a move likely to win nods from Scrabble enthusiasts citywide, the Staten Island borough president has crafted creative street names for the new neighborhood set to rise on the controversial Mount Manresa site.

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has named a five - man panel to hold a two - day public hearing on the controversial Voters» Register.

ALBANY — A Capital Region food truck as notable for its controversial name as for its fusion barbecue fare scored a significant victory at the end of a years - long legal battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, which had banned the Wandering Dago from serving its offerings on the Empire State Plaza.

(CNN)-- The mayor of Jersey City has added a high - profile and potentially controversial member to his administration, naming former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey to a major post on Friday.

Speaking at the National Immigrant Integration Conference, the governor joined the growing Democratic pile - up on the real estate magnate over his controversial calls for a wall along the Mexican border and for a moratorium on Muslim immigration, though he did not mention the Queens - born builder by name.

Cattaraugus County has become the latest to distance itself from the state's controversial SAFE Act gun control law, seeking to block the state from using the county name and seal on paperwork related to the recertification of pistol permits called for by the law.

Black Hat has become one of the premier venues for hackers to showcase controversial methods of breaking into many of the electronic devices — PCs, smart phones and networking routers, to name a few — on which society has come to depend.

This result offers a contrast to a controversial paper published last year that found that based on one - page personal narratives or CVs with similar qualifications and either a typically male or female name, reviewers were twice as likely to choose to hire the woman.

After announcing on December 11, 2017 that it would be overhauling its messaging system to more closely resemble those of competitors like Tinder and Bumble, the company revealed plans for an even more controversial change: a real name policy that marks the end for traditional usernames.

Based on Kathryn Stockett's best selling novel of the same name, «The Help» tells the story of a young white woman, Eugenia «Skeeter» Phelan (played by Emma Stone), and her decision to write a controversial book from the point of view of the help (the maids).

Inside The NFL, Season 6, Episode 7: Cris Collinsworth gets up on his soapbox to talk about rule changes within the National Football League, Thursday Night football and how it relates to the players»; safety and the controversial topic of changing the Washington Redskins»; name.

Based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga series of the same name, the controversial and graphic tale of feuding yakuza gangs is seen primarily through the actions of a scarred and psychologically damaged man, who is manipulated into killing rival faction members.

More controversial might be the way the film turns the nuclear attack on Hiroshima into a cheap pun: «Little Boy» was the name of the first atom bomb dropped on Japan.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeon controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeOn Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

Curriki (the name is a marriage of curriculum and wiki) offers educational materials for K - 12 students on a wide range of classroom topics, both mundane and controversial.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

As a new kid on the block, oddly - named I and love and you line of pet foods have quickly gone up in rankings due to their attention to high quality ingredients with no grains, fillers, corn, rice, soy, wheat and other known controversial additives.

Yesterday, a localizer for the publisher XSEED took a dramatic stance on what he saw as potential censorship, asking his company to remove his name from the credits of the upcoming JRPG Akiba's Beat after the developers removed a controversial phrase involving the KKK from the game.

- Most obviously, you may have heard of Cinemaware Marquee, which is a slightly odd use of the classic «It Came From The Desert» developer / publisher's name to brand «indie» - style U.S. retail debuts for a number of interesting European - sourced PC titles, including Space Rangers 2 (though, according to several threads, it has the decidedly controversial StarForce copy protection on it), the wacky Neighbors From Hell, and a neat maritime - sim 3 - pack.

The contemporary art prize is named after Turner because while today he may be considered one of Britain's greatest traditional artists, in his time his approach to landscape painting was controversial, and often reviled, yet had a lasting impact on art.

This name change — a controversial idea currently under vigorous and passionate international debate — would represent a formal recognition and acknowledgement of what Burtynsky, Baichwal and de Pencier call the «human signature» on the planet.

They chose their name based on JMW Turner who had ambitions of creating a prize for up - and - coming artists and was considered at the time a controversial character.

SILBERMAN: Well, right at the moment that the true dimensions of what you might call the autistic community were becoming apparent — because the diagnostic criteria had finally been broadened enough to allow these people to become diagnosed — right at that moment, a guy in England named Andrew Wakefield, who was a gastroenterologist, released an instantly controversial paper blaming a certain form of autism that he claimed was novel on the MMR vaccine.

For those parents - to - be who want to ensure that their children's lives are saddled with crushing debt and filled with 90 - hour work weeks reviewing irrelevant emails in a windowless room on the 22nd floor of a New York office building, Conrad Saam, head of marketing for the controversial «lawyer rating» site Avvo, has done a «groundbreaking new study on lawyer's [sic] names over the past 200 years.»

Supreme Court has won a decision in federal court that would repeal provisions of the Judicial Conduct Code and allow judges and judicial candidates to name their party affiliation and express their views on controversial topics like abortion.

The move is likely to prove controversial among users, many of whom are still pushing back against Facebook's general «authentic name policy», which bans people from using pseudonyms on the site.

Elizabeth Smart has asked that lawmakers in Rhode Island stop invoking her name on a controversial bill that would charge a fee to view porn online.

While some of the advertisements specifically named Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the statement says the majority of ads focused on controversial voter issues such as gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights.

To leave good impression you should address to your interlocutor by name, avoid controversial topics, speak on the themes that will be interesting to your listener and have a good sense of humor.