Sentences with phrase «international controversy when»

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Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, requested a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

Controversy first flared when Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group Queer Space, ordered a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private function marking International Day Against Homophobia.

Next month's speaker has not yet been announced but it had been widely thought to be Priti Patel — until this week when the controversy over the international development secretary's trip to Israel in August blew up.

When you did The Interview, you suddenly found yourself in the middle of an international controversy?

Bailey came to international attention as a figure painter through controversy in 1982, when his breast - baring «Portrait of S» made the cover of the widely circulated Newsweek magazine.

When he was awarded the grand prize for painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale in Italy — only the third American to receive the distinguished honor, after James Whistler and Mark Tobey — the surprise selection ignited a firestorm of controversy in Europe but secured his international reputation.

It is also possible that this delay is a way for Iceland to avoid controversy at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting at a time when it is politically beneficial for it to lay low.

But controversy in international politics continues to rage over what role developing countries, including India, should play in reducing greenhouses gases and the mitigation of climate change when they are not the ones who created the problem.

The fascinating story of the British aid worker Emma McCune who went to work for Street Kids International in Southern Sudan in the early 1990s and who created great controversy when she married Riek Machar, a local Sundanese rebel commander.