Sentences with phrase «national controversy»

As believers, we should model discernment and Christ - centered thinking on the issue, and that takes listening to people that you may not otherwise hear outside of national controversies such as this.

Mr Hatton caused national controversy in the 1980s by setting an illegal budget and was denounced at the 1985 conference by then leader Neil Kinnock for sending redundancy notices by taxi to council workers.

McDuffee's 500 - dog facility, which stirred national controversy, closed as of March 2010.

This year, however, two science - related issues have sparked national controversy because they serve as surrogates for larger disagreements over ideology and belief.

Advocates of LSD, such as Dr. Timothy Leary and the Merry Pranksters, brought the term into public consciousness, consequently creating national controversy about psychedelic drug usage.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

The resulting national controversy, framed as a test of wills between the Obama administration and the most populous state, has generated plenty of heat.

In response to the newly national controversy, Superintendent Karen Frison was quick to respond with a heartsick statement:

The name Andres Serrano often evokes ideas of controversy and absurdity, primarily due to his 1987 work Piss Christ, a photograph depicting a crucifix submerged in urine, and the ensuing national controversy that followed.

Scoffing at national controversy, the city of Richmond, Calif., is about to become the first to use eminent domain to seize underwater...

McDuffee's 500 - dog facility, which stirred national controversy, apparently has closed as of March 2010.

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.

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 Oklahoma's Republican - controlled state legislature set off a national controversy when they approved placing a giant stone statue of the Ten Commandments on the statehouse steps.

Yet in Casey, three Justices» who had been placed on the Court, incidentally, during a period in which relative anonymity was a leading prerequisite for successful appointment» saw it as their right and duty to call «the contending sides of a national controversy to end their national division by accepting a common mandate rooted in the Constitution.»

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.

Van Blarcum's Facebook posting stirred a national controversy in the wake of the massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino, California, by a Muslim couple who, the FBI has concluded, had been «inspired» to action by the Islamic State.

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.

Staten Island GOP insiders — who will ultimately decide who their candidate will be — are reportedly seeking to recruit Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who is at the center of a national controversy over his handling of the Eric Garner case.

Still, the EPA had not drawn conclusions based on the tests and took pains to separate its groundwater investigation in Wyoming from the national controversy around hydraulic fracturing.

A Texas judge's remarks to a mother who spoke to her child in Spanish have sparked a national controversy.

Leonard Jeffries Jr., the Afrocentric - education proponent whose racially charged remarks ignited a national controversy last summer, has been replaced as head of the black - studies department at City College of New York.

Comments on charter schools mirrored the national controversy.

mirrored the national controversy.

Free - roaming cats without owners have recently become the center of a national controversy.

His homoerotic photographs caused a national controversy involving the American Family Association which sparred a debate about censorship and public funding of the arts.

An artists» cooperative that flourished between 1954 and ’57 at 3119 Fillmore Street, the gallery is best known as the place where Allen Ginsberg first read «Howl,» on Oct. 7, 1955, initiating a national controversy.

In 1981, Serra's 120 - foot - long and 12 - foot high Titled Arc (1981, destroyed), commissioned by the Arts - in - Architecture program of the U.S. General Services Administration and installed in Federal Plaza, New York City, incited a national controversy and a lingering and fiery discussion was sustained throughout the 1980s and 90s regarding public art.

As a result, thousands of cases involving national controversies that constitutionally belong in federal court are being handled by a few «magnet» state courts — even though those courts have no relationship to the parties and have no business being involved.

As a result, thousands of cases involving national controversies that should belong in federal court are being handled by a few «magnet» state courts — even though those courts have no relationship to the parties and have no business being involved.

Sharif El - Gamal, the developer whose proposal in 2011 to build Park51, a $ 100 million Islamic mosque and community center near the World Trade Center, ignited a national controversy, now plans to build a mixed - use tower in Midtown Manhattan to...

Sharif El - Gamal, the developer whose proposal in 2011 to build Park51, a $ 100 million Islamic mosque and community center near the World Trade Center, ignited a national controversy, now plans to build a mixed - use tower in Midtown Manhattan to house a retail center and hotel — and the Garment Center Congregation synagogue.