Sentences with phrase «of controversial statements»

Adam Orth's «Always On» Twitter Gaffe refers to a series of controversial statements made on Twitter by Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth in defense of games that require an Internet connection to play.

In the wake of his controversial statements on teacher pay, State Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson says he used «less - than - stellar phrasing» when he said $ 35,000 was good money for young teachers in rural parts of North Carolina.

Break pupils into small groups and hand out the list of controversial statements.

Despite a rough week for Trump in which he made a number of controversial statements, 57 percent of New York Republican voters say they have no impact on how they'll vote in the April 19 primary.

(CNN)-- Newly - minted Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell — who already has had to contend with a string of controversial statements she has made in the past — once said she «dabbled into witchcraft.»

The get - together went as well as can be expected for a guy who has a very conservative position about immigration, sent out racist e-mails and made a number of controversial statements about various ethnic groups.

The comments are just the latest in a series of controversial statements made by the former Labour MP.

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But a new focus on Moore's previous public statements on controversial topics also gained traction of late, just days ahead of the Alabama special election set for December 12.

Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

In a controversial statement this week, President Donald Trump highlighted Norway as the kind of country from which he'd like more emigrants to the United States.

She also listed several of Trump's most controversial statements, beginning with his recent claim that the judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University can't properly do his job because he is «Mexican.»

They usually employ one of two methods: either communicating what they think people want to hear to gain favor or making controversial statements to appear edgy and elicit a response.

Over the last year, Romney has been critical of Trump in response to a few of the president's most controversial actions and statements, including Trump's reaction to a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in last August.

Priebus also doubled down on the White House's controversial decision not to reference Jews specifically in their statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying while he understands the significance of the day, «I don't regret the words.»

Following a storm of criticism on social media, FaceApp CEO Yaroslav Goncharov issued a statement Wednesday promising that «the new controversial filters will be removed in the next few hours.»

«It is no coincidence that these charges, the result of investigations which have been languishing for considerable time, have been filed at the same time of Shkreli's high - profile, controversial and yet unrelated activities,» the statement reads.

On Tuesday, Trump made more controversial statements about Charlottesville, including one that appeared to show sympathy for some of the people who marched with neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber admitted it used a tool to thwart city regulators in a statement Wednesday that announced a review of its controversial Greyball technology.

«It is no coincidence that these charges, the result of investigations which have been languishing for considerable time, have been filed at the same time of Shkreli's high - profile, controversial and yet unrelated activities,» according to the statement.

Shkreli, who was arrested Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, has effectively waved a red flag for months in front of federal prosecutors, keeping himself in the media glare with a hugely controversial price hike of a drug that benefits AIDS patients, pregnant women and cancer patients, attacking his critics, including presidential contender Hillary Clinton, and lighting up Twitter with outrageous statements.

In a series of broadcasts by Britain's Channel 4, Nix was filmed making controversial statements about his firm's work on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.»

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix had been suspended in March after a series of TV broadcasts showed him making controversial statements about his firm's work on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory.

Factcheck.org and USA TODAY examined some of his most controversial statements to get you the real story.

(CNN)-- Reverend O'Neal Dozier, pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida, joined CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin to discuss some controversial statements he has made in the past on social issues.

(Not that God is assumed to be an individual in this sense, but that it is not assumed that he is not, in the statement of the classification, whose purpose is to state, not to answer, controversial questions.)

Though my interpretation of that statement by Jesus in the garden is somewhat controversial, it seems to make the most sense out of the context, and Jesus» attitude leading up to the cross.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

The controversial head of a Muslim congregation in New York announced the launch of a «multinational, multifaith movement» meant to improve understanding and build trust between «people of all cultures and faith traditions,» according to a statement released Tuesday.

It doesn't mean we hide the controversial parts of faith, but we can engage in conversation over them, rather than issuing condemning blanket statements.

CNN: Santorum co-chair: Homosexuality «makes God want to vomit» Reverend O'Neal Dozier, pastor of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida, joined CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin to discuss some controversial statements he has made in the past on social issues.

[1] In that same book (published just a few months after the controversial statement, «Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium» was issued), the founders of ECT agreed that, despite the firestorm of criticism that had erupted in some circles, the original statement was only a beginning.

The occasion for such remarks is «Standing for the Unborn,» a statement of the Office of Social and International Ministries of the Society of Jesus in the U.S. «In treating this delicate and controversial topic, we hope to provide our brother Jesuits, colleagues, parishioners, and students with the spiritual leadership and ethical guidance they expect from us,» the statement says.

So Part I builds up a thread which would seem a rational development, yet involves some of its most controversial statements.

[Editor's note: In light of Megyn Kelly's controversial statement on Fox that «Jesus was a white man,» we're reposting this article about a few of the things we often forget...

Most metropolitan councils in fact have been essentially conservative, white - dominated, establishment - run organizations that engaged in nothing more radical than sponsorship of the training of clergy in hospital visitation or publication of a hesitant statement on some controversial issue.

The proposed policy statement will certainly be a controversial document, but it is also certain to stimulate a long - overdue discussion in the churches on the matter of energy.

@Ed What was objectionable in your earlier statement is that you were implying that while gravity is a known fact that is still less than 100 % understood (hence the term «theory of gravity»), evolution is somehow controversial within biology and is called a theory for some very different reason.

For example, the Apostle Paul's incredibly controversial statement that circumcision was not necessary for Christian converts, that «in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value... the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love,» represents a pattern of discernment that McKnight calls «theological development.»

The first statement, which has to do with the taking of innocent human life, is the least controversial of the three.

It is an inescapable fact that when free - church men and established - church men undertake to frame a joint statement about the relations of church and state, they can come to agreement only by a studied ambiguity or by a cautious avoidance of controversial aspects of the question.

A pastor will assume that the negative responses to a controversial statement he made in a sermon or through a Facebook status can not possibly be worthy critiques of his position, but rather the kind of «persecution» Christians can expect to receive for saying and doing the right thing.

Every single descriptor fits like a glove: - team is irrelevant in the 21st century so fans are still living off the glory days of the 90s and 70s - fair weather fanbase that only pays attention when the team is doing well - heavily policed «family friendly» SBN site where no profanity or controversial statements are allowed

Roy Hodgson has made a number of statements which have been controversial and has been criticized by the Liverpool supporters.

I will make a very controversial statement; Arsenal are inconsistent because of inconsistent players in the first team squad.

There was a lot of talk in the football media last week about Arsenal, or more specifically about our manager Arsene Wenger after the serialisation of a book about his fierce managerial rival Jose Mourinho contained some controversial statements about Wenger and Mourinho's thoughts about him.

Some of the journalists and pundits are hustlers who earn their living by making controversial statements.

On this week's episode of the Mixer Irish football podcast, we look back at a dream week for Bohemians and those controversial Bray Wanderers statements, as well as the usual round - up of the latest League of Ireland action.

But, Morgan — who's controversial views on Arsenal regularly cause mass debate — believes the north Londoners should double that fee in order to sign Costa and make one of the biggest statements of the summer.

His inability to really hammer home his points led him to make quite fanciful controversial statements in the hope of raising a few eyebrows.

In M.Gary Neuman's book, Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair - Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets... MORE to a Great Relationship, he makes some controversial statements: «Insulate and protect your marriage against emotional infidelity by avoiding friendships with members of the opposite sex.»