Sentences with phrase «of intense controversy»

«Since the Court came into existence almost 175 years ago, there have been few eras in which it has not been the center of intense controversy....»

Trapping, particularly since the development of the foothold trap, [16] has been the subject of intense controversy.

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Intense controversy over the use of major dams in the Brazilian Amazon is forcing the government to look to alternative renewables to meet growing demand for power

It is precisely the emergence of gay liberation as a social movement determined to restructure society's laws and mores that has made homosexuality a subject of such intense controversy in our time.

One graduate student at Indiana University, recalling the mood of the gay community during the winter controversy, told me that «everyone was conscious of intense oppression.

The old wounds remain, but much of the shrillness which accompanies such intense controversy seems to have been moderated.

Because it wasn't in Obama's best interest to be affiliated with Rev. Wright as he was the subject of such intense media scrutiny and the focal point of a controversy.

But evangelicals, for whom the intense struggles of the fundamentalist / modernist controversy are still a living and determinative memory, are jittery, fearing that the book might herald a new era of faculty purges and organizational splits — a replay of earlier conflicts, this time rending the evangelical world apart.

With many American Muslims already feeling intense scrutiny over the controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero, many mosques and Islamic groups are dramatically altering their usual plans for Eid ul - Fitr, the end of Ramadan holiday.

To speak of the empty tomb, however, plunges one into the midst of very complex issues and intense controversy.

The result is a readable, intelligent, and highly competent survey of the intense sectional controversies that arose over the issue of the extension of slavery to the western territories from the 1840s until the outbreak of war.

While many applauded and welcomed the document at its launch, it was also met with intense controversy and a great deal of suspicion.

The outspoken comments from the ex-leaders of Britain's armed forces will generate intense controversy amid a period of reform for the coronial system, which is being led by judge Peter Thornton in his role as the UK's first chief coroner.

In New York State and elsewhere, candidates and political operatives are trying to gauge the effect that the constant swirl of controversy around Mr. Trump will have on close races like Ms. Tenney's — an even more intense exercise since the release of Mr. Trump's recorded boasts of groping women and accusations from several women that he touched them inappropriately.

what's rather amusing to me about all this is that the astrological significance of Pluto exactly mirrors the controversy of planet / planetoid: intense power struggles, transformation, death / rebirth, taboos

This and other controversies aside, recent results raise the possibility that PTSD is a less distinctive affliction than originally thought and that its symptoms may arise in response to a plethora of intense stressors that are part and parcel of the human condition.

«The specific roles of rapid Arctic warming and sea ice loss in this story are a topic of intense research and controversy.

Several articles on the dangers of modern soy products have generated intense controversy in the health food industry.

Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the New Year with hopeful thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?

You can explain to them, briefly and dispassionately, about the arc of the Clause's history from the preindustrial period through today, and how the Clause has been at the center of intense political and legal controversy all that time.

Facebook is currently dealing with intense controversy after The Observer and The New York Times revealed FB shared the information of 50 million users with the political research group Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.