Sentences with phrase «controversy over the name»

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Robin Fox is an English anthropologist who has authored, with the equally delightfully named Lionel Tiger, The Imperial Animal and many other works making the case for the «nature» side of the interminable nature / nurture controversy over how best to understand why human beings do what they do.

Jose Mourinho chose to wade in on the debate over Deigo Costa's behaviour during Chelsea's match with Arsenal by claiming there was no controversy and that the Brazilian born Spanish international should have named as Man Of The Match.

Cuomo has jumped into the controversy over the Port Authority's quiet 1986 deal to sell the rights to the World Trade Center name for $ 10 to a non-profit organization, asking the state attorney general to investigate the arrangement.

Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

HARTFORD — Prompted by the national controversy over the Confederate flag, the state Democratic Party voted unanimously Wednesday night to change the name of its annual fundraising dinner and strip the names of two slave - owning American presidents.

This can be seen most clearly in the controversy today over plans by Momentum to set up a network of children's groups for Labour activists and their children under the name «Momentum Kids».

Pataki and New York GOP Chairman Sandy Treadwell faced controversy after naming moderate Assemblyman Howard Mills the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate against Senator Chuck Schumer over conservative Michael Benjamin, who held significant advantages in both fund raising and organization.

Drug maker Mylan said it will offer a generic version of the life - saving allergy treatment EpiPen for half the list price of the brand - name treatment after it became the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug prices.

The anonymity exemption, which requires gun owners to provide a reason they wish to remain out of the public record, is a response to the controversy that followed the Journal News» publication last month of the names and addresses of over 33 thousand hand gun permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties, north of New York City.

There was some controversy over whether a pool hustler named Rudolph Wanderone (1913 - 1996), known as New York Fats before the 1961 book, had ever been to Minnesota.

The Thurman Station Association, a local group of community volunteers, has stepped in to take over the Jack Wax Party after controversy erupted over the handling of the party's proceeds occurred late last year and the former town board decided to conduct oversight of the event — but a new town board in January rescinded the resolution that both established town involvement and named former town Deputy Supervisor Susan Shepler to organize the event.

An explorer named Frederick Cook claimed to have gotten there a year earlier — the controversy over who was actually first continues today — but Peary, assisted by fellow Bowdoin alumnus Donald B. MacMillan, documented his trip more extensively, and many historians give his mission the nod.

There's been a lot of controversy over the phenomenon we know as «the post-workout window» or it's more poetic name, «the window of opportunity».

I know the word «Kefir» is actually an age old fermented product, and I don't mean to incite a controversy or debate over your name «Kefir»», but you must be aware that in South Africa it is probably the most offensive racial slur word directed against blacks (especially during the ignoble Apartheid era).

The move comes as OkCupid faces controversy over its decision to encourage real names to be used on the site.

The film has stirred up controversy over its portrayal of the city from which it takes its name.

There is currently a controversy over the fact that, following disputes with the game's publisher Konami, Kojima has left the franchise and Konami behind — and as a result, his name has been stripped from the cover of what is now his final Metal Gear game, The Phantom Pain.

When it comes to education reform, perhaps no city has inspired more controversy and acclaim over the last decade than Washington, D.C. Even today, uttering the name «Michelle Rhee» — the city's first schools chancellor appointed in 2007 after a major shakeup in the district — still evokes heated reactions from local residents.

The news focused on digital growth, safety for book reviewers, the Clean Reader app, Joe Konrath's EbooksAreForever library business, and the controversy over Jane Litte's pen name.

Over the following years Vidal published a number of novels in his own name including The City and the Pillar in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality.

Like the artist for whom it is named, the Turner has generated a fair amount of controversy over the years.

A report released by Inhofe's staff on February 23 outlines this classic Joe McCarthyite witch - hunt: page after page of incorrect and misleading statements, a list of federal laws that allegedly may make scientists subject to prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department, and a list of names and affiliations of 17 «key players» in the «CRU Controversy» over stolen e-mails and their connections with IPCC reports.

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».

She touches on the controversy over Oblon Spivak's ad campaign and another by Shuffield Lowman in Florida where the bar actually got involved in the dispute and initially came down against the firm, saying its claims of offering more than competitors (as depicted by multiple scoops of ice - cream) were «unsubstantiated,» even though no competitors were named in the ad.

For simplicity's sake, too; will the government have to amend the law any time a controversy arises over the name of a school club?

In fact, Zuckerberg even said on Wednesday in a statement intended to assuage concerns over the Cambridge Analytica controversy that he's instituting a new set of policies to limit what developers can collect on Facebook users to just people's photo, name, and email address.

Despite the split now months behind us, BCH continues to face controversy over a myriad of issues, most prominently its use of the «Bitcoin» name.