Sentences with phrase «in years of controversy»

The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, which has been mired in years of controversy, has been referred to the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations after the Supreme Court found it did not have validly appointed directors.

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Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

The controversy erupted after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar nominations earlier this month, revealing a list that included no non-white acting nominees for the second year in a row.

Donald Trump's first year in office may have been laden with controversy, political squabbling, and tweet storms, yet the reality - TV star turned U.S. president also managed to get a singular piece of legislation through that should loom large for businesses big and small for years to come.

New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.

While the show has successfully taken on a number of issues important to the left in recent years, such as help for Puerto Rico following the devastating hurricane last year and warning against the prospect of a President Trump, the tactics used to respond to the Apu controversy largely came across as tone deaf.

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

In 2010, Genovese accepted a three - year fellowship from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the controversy - courting animal welfare nonprofit, to conduct research into cultured meat.

Which explains why Reddit is often associated less with news and more with unruly or even offensive content such as the GamerGate controversy, or even worse examples of the darker side of human behavior that have appeared there in recent years.

It appeared they had at last removed what CEO Joel Manby called their «blocking» issue: A virulent controversy over their treatment of orcas that had generated plenty of negative publicity and weighed on the company's performance in recent years.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Pharmaceutical giant Mylan was embroiled in a controversy about its drug pricing last year when it hiked the price of EpiPen by more than 400 percent.

Uber, which has recently been involved in a storm of controversy, was reported to have already been in trouble two years ago when Apple CEO Tim Cook threated to remove the ride - hailing service's app from the App Store.

RBS also facing further controversy, warning in its half - year results in August that the cost of fines or settlements from the investigation into currency market rigging could be «material», that is knocking its profits.

eMarketer Releases New Programmatic Advertising Estimates Despite controversy around programmatic advertising in recent marketing headlines, eMarketer found that nearly four of every five digital display ad dollars in the US will go to programmatic advertising this year.

More than five years ago, the rapidly expanding Upper Crust franchise based out of Waltham became steeped in controversy for hiring undocumented workers and underpaying their staff.

US: Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, an American pharmaceuticals company, finds herself at the center of one of the biggest pharma controversies in recent years: price - gouging.

The return of Roxbury's Black Market was marred by controversy after one of the vendors from its first year decided to open a new market in the Seaport.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Thin Power is the unauthorized biography of former mayor of Calgary, Rod Sykes, featuring the achievements and bitter controversies of his eight - year term ending in 1977.

Fast forward through three years of scandals, controversy and broken promises, and now many of the same voters who saved Ms. Redford's PC Party in 2012 are now leaning toward voting for Ms. Notley's NDP.

But it held its fire, hoping to keep its name out of the multiple controversies that have swirled around the company in the last year.

These three basic paradigms of evangelicalism derive then from the period of the Reformation centered in the sixteenth century, the «awakenings» of the eighteenth century, and the fundamentalist / modernist controversies of the last hundred years or so.

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

Last year, in a talk at a conference on Mormonism and Islam at Utah Valley University, I asked my Mormon listeners why they had not rushed to the defense of Muslims in controversies such as the one that raged over the Park51 project near ground zero.

Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the «demythologization» of the Gospel provoked a storm of controversy in the years after World War II, wrote in his seminal essay: «It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of....

The last year's worth of controversy are simultaneously a commendation and condemnation of the state of «Christian» journalism and associated punditry, but the alternative is not necessarily blogging or «just» blogging, but a reappraisal of our ethics and interests in the public sphere

Only in the obviously late and legendary story of the guard at the tomb (Mt. 27:63) is there any clear indication that a resurrection was expected, and this story is evidently related to controversies between Christians and Jews in Matthew's own day, many years after the event and at a time when the subject of dispute was the empty tomb.

More obviously than in other parts of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form of a narrative about Jesus, of the thought and experience of the Church in later years, and of its controversies with opponents.

Yeah but they want to teach the controversy... you know, how the earth might be only 10,000 years old (no it isn't) and that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together (no they didn't) and that evolution has no evidence (yes it does) or that there was a global flood (no there wasn't) or that the earth might be flat or the center of the universe or a million other wrong headed theories that fly in the face of the evidence.

Already in his lifetime and even more in the years of the «rites controversy» over the legitimacy of «accommodationism» that followed his death in 1610, Ricci was accused of having compromised the uniqueness of the person of Christ.

Bootyfunk, The only controversy comes in on Day 4 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $ 27.99 It might be the greatest American literary controversy of recent years: In summer 2015, millions of excited readers discovered to their great dismay ugly racial elements in Harper Lee's new / old novel, Go Set a WatchmaIn summer 2015, millions of excited readers discovered to their great dismay ugly racial elements in Harper Lee's new / old novel, Go Set a Watchmain Harper Lee's new / old novel, Go Set a Watchman.

The following was originally written as a personal response to a confused fifteen year old who asked for clarity in the face of the growing controversy.

(7) A text that has lent itself to much controversy in recent years regarding the role of women in ministry is I Corinthians 14:33 - 34: «As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches.

Anticipating much of the current controversy over the worship of technological progress that has characterized the end of the twentieth century, sixteen years later this book is still squarely in the middle of the debate.

Quite apart from controversies connected with the Genesis account of creation, historians have puzzled over the story of 12 brothers who go into Egypt and father 12 tribes, and then under miraculous circumstances flee Egypt, wander for 40 years in the wilderness, invade Canaan, conquer the land and settle down.

Haight reviews the contemporary relevance of the fifth - century christological controversies without ever mentioning the quiet revolution in official Catholic Christology that has taken place in recent years.

Controversy about the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has intensified in recent years.

The controversy surrounding the project - new construction on an area overlapping the cemetery of Ma «man Allah (God's Sanctuary) or Mamilla, as it is known in West Jerusalem - had simmered for years.

C. S. Lewis identified this sort of discourse in The Abolition of Man where he explained how the grammar book of «Gaius» and «Titius» propagandizes rather than educates, having wormed into the inner recesses of the child's mind: «It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.»

I had for a year or two been thinking that it might be useful to write a book about Whitehead and the relevance of his thought to some of our present controversies, particularly in relation to biology, and the «anti-science» movement.

In this fortieth anniversary year of Faith magazine, we republish the editorial article from May / June 1989 by Edward Holloway, chiefly because it is still so relevant to this controversy.

What started as a pretty low - key tussle has turned into one of this year's biggest controversies in the American Christian community.

Yet, in more than fifteen hundred years since the affirmation of this canon it has not been repudiated even though it has been the subject of controversy and continual scrutiny.

We are becoming aware of a whole body of data accumulated within the last one hundred years which has stirred the flames of controversy in religious, anthropological, and philosophical circles — data that raises new questions about the origins of the family and of human society.

Let's work through the ABCs of these classic controversies: Contraception: A. «The use of contraception in the West has led to a stabilising of the population... However, in less developed countries, the population is rising by as much as 3 \ % a year... This is placing great pressures on food supplies, health services and education».

The controversies of the early years of the church's life were conducted in the terms of Greek philosophy, and the issues were about what sort of being Jesus was («fully human, fully God» is how the creed was finally formulated), and how he was related to God the Father (homoousion, or «one in being,» was the conclusion).

The Frenchman should start at left - back for his nation at the World Cup as he looks to put the controversies of four years ago in South Africa behind him.