Sentences with phrase «middle of a controversy»

Campbell Soup has been caught in the middle of the controversy.

New Delhi [India], May 03 (ANI): With the National Film Awards ceremony finding itself in the middle of a controversy, producer Boney Kapoor on Thursday downplayed the «fuss.»

Smack in the middle of this controversy is Alberta's smooth - talking finance minister, Ted Morton, formerly the Sustainable Resource Development Minister responsible for pushing through the Land Stewardship Act.

The irony here is that the church's bigger problem is not with the government but with its own members, many of whom don't buy into the very tenets about family planning that is in the middle of this controversy.

For the past several months, the university has been in the middle of a controversy centering around its poor and declining race relations on the campus.

Gospel star Kirk Franklin recently found himself in the middle of a controversy, all because of a collaboration with Kanye West.

Rangers centre - back Fabio Cardoso has found himself in the middle of a controversy after a video emerged on Twitter with the new signing caught on camera saying «mon the Celtic».

When, eventually, he was able to explain his observations, he found himself in the middle of a controversy.

Tencent is about to roll out its mobile hit Honor of Kings in the west, as the title just was in the middle of controversy in China regarding the amount of time children spent playing it.

However, Exxon caught in the middle of the controversy, announced an interesting job opening.

I note also, the number of inquiry calls who tell me they ONLY want to do business with the listing rep.. We are forever caught up in the middle of this controversy.

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He's already found himself in the middle of two controversies.

Trump talks taxes Amid a swirl of controversy, US president Donald Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal this week, reiterated his desire to slash the US corporate tax rate to 15 % from 35 % while lowering the tax burden on the middle class.

«Divisive issues such as Hezbollah's weapons and the controversy over its participation in regional conflicts are almost entirely absent from the electoral campaigns, indicating implicit acceptance of the party's domestic hegemony,» wrote analyst Joseph Bahout in an article for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

On the other hand, if the Justices embrace the substantive approach of Reinhardt and Company, they could put themselves in the middle of a passionate political and moral controversy every bit the equal to the one they generated with Roe v. Wade.

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley has found himself in the middle of a theological controversy.

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.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

The remarks from Abdul Rauf, who has rarely spoken to the media since his proposal for an Islamic center set off a firestorm of controversy this summer, came while the imam is on a State Department - sponsored trip to the Middle East.

All around him people were agitating pro and contra his Theses, which he had in any case only intended as exploratory and as a weapon to try to force the Archbishop of Mainz to tame the preachers of Indulgences in the middle of the growing controversy it was intolerable to remain silent.

Mr Littlproud also announced two reviews in response to the controversy - one into the capability, power and culture of the independent regulator (his Department) and another into sheep trade standards, during the Middle Eastern summer.

The mysterious case of Deli Alli's middle - finger looked to be settled after Walker took to twitter to debunk the controversy with a simple Mr.Bean gif (we're guessing that will now be a favored approach from lawyers and solicitors moving forward in dealing with high - profile cases?).

Dwight Howard had one of his best games of the year Wednesday, but he still managed to end the night in the middle of a media controversy.

At a recent conference about the future of French football, PSG sporting director Leonardo sparked controversy by accusing his club's domestic rivals of devoting all their training sessions to «toros [piggy in the middle] and shots at goal».

The controversy over the construction of the middle school has been going on ever since the land swap was proposed.

And that was literally in the middle of this (controversy).»

On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Flight provoked controversy by suggesting that the government's cuts to child benefits would «discourage the middle classes from breeding» - a politically charged term in discussions on class - «but for those on benefits there is every incentive».

My feeling is that the new direction — picturing our universe as just a part of a multiverse — may very well be right, and all the controversy right now is because we're in the middle of a difficult birthing process.

The path followed by them during the ensuing millennia is still subject to controversy, but by 70 CE, they were already featured in one of Dioscorides» treatises on medicinal plants, and by the early Middle Ages, many varieties were commonplace from Western Europe to China.

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

Outstanding Actor, Motion Picture: Will Smith (Collateral Beauty), Keegan - Michael Key (Don't Think Twice), Devon Terrell (Barry) Poor Smith, one year ago middling reviews of his sports drama, Collateral found him at the center of the bubbling #OscarSoWhite controversy.

Leading actor Christian Bale has defended director Ridley Scott following controversy over the casting of white actors in roles despite the film being set in the Middle East and Africa.

Topics will include transformational learning, institutional values and integrity, personal, curricular and institutional perspectives on diversity, administrative challenges and athletic controversy, financial management for middle managers, and the importance of managing external relationships.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

To comprehend the intensity and persistence of the inclusion controversy of the 1990's and to ultimately get beyond it, we must appreciate the depth of the tradition of exclusion in our public schools, exclusion that was considered legitimate until the middle of this century.

In patching together the fragile coalition of interests needed to successfully pursue its bid, the state approached negotiations like Middle East peace talks, seeking agreement first on broader issues and putting off fights and controversies over specifics.

She is also a devoted fan of the celebrated British children's author Philip Pullman, and her book about the religious and ethical dimensions of his award - winning trilogy Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials (Jossey - Bass / Wiley) hit the bookshelves in the middle of a major, national controversy about the release of the trilogy's first movie installment.

There's a lot of controversy surrounding the middle class — what is it?

As if there wasn't enough controversy surrounding the Middle East, the airlines can't even agree where Israel is for the purpose of booking awards.

After the controversy surrounding Battlefront 2 and Middle - Earth (which I didn't find too troubling), the idea of Dissidia having a random box-esque unlock system was deeply concerning.

While I am against the presence of micro-transaction in full price retail games, Middle - earth: Shadows of War taught me that gaming industry controversies shouldn't always be taken at face value.

Middle Earth: Shadow of War has had its share of loot box and progression controversy already, but now it seems these will not be the last of the game's issues.

Most triple - A games now have some sort of «pay virtual / real money for randomized gear» system, and the way loot boxes have been added to games like Middle - earth: Shadow of War and Star Wars Battlefront II has stirred a fair amount of controversy.

Middle - Earth: Shadow of War infamously helped to start 2017's lootbox controversy when players felt that they were encouraged to either grind for lootboxes to see the game's true ending or pony up cash to simply pay for them.

Instead there have been complaints that the Turner prize show has been a bore - and without controversy, without shocks, without the ire of middle England, what is it for?

In late December last year, the exchange desk was in the middle of an insider trading controversy after Bitcoin Cash (BCH) experienced an abrupt jump in price moments before Coinbase announced support for the currency.

Lenovo is attempting to defuse controversy over its pre-installed Superfish crapware — which appears to have run man - in - the - middle attacks against consumers in order to sling ads — by saying it has discontinued use of the visual - recognition technology on new laptops and promising to review outstanding concerns.