Sentences with phrase «rocked by controversy»
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism continues to be rocked by controversy.
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Giannoulias has seen his bid for the Senate rocked by the controversy over his family's bank, which was taken over by federal regulators earlier this year.
Ahead of the 2012 European Championships, the England team were rocked by controversy, as skipper John Terry was stripped of the captaincy after he was charged with using racist language towards Rio's brother Anton in a Premier League earlier that season.
Less than a year after the devastating loss of his wife, Arnold Palmer has been rocked by a controversy that threatens his standing in the game he loves
The Churches of Christ, too, seemed perennially rocked by controversies, ranging from matters of millenarian theology to the financial support of radio and television ministries.
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By now, you're familiar with the controversy between the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and Energy Transfer Partners.
Rock bottom of the Championship in a season mired by controversies, deeply dissatisfied fans are clear where the blame lies: at the feet of chairman Karl Oyston, who is currently under investigation by the FA for allegedly labelling one supporter a «retard» — and a number of other choice names — in a series of text messages.
«The process of awarding the supercasino licence has been rocked by continuing allegations and controversy,» shadow culture secretary Hugo Swire.
The letter from the party activists urging the withdrawal of the whip from Rennard is written by members of the Rock the Boat: Lib Dems Against Sexual Harassment group, which said it was deeply troubling that Clegg will would not withdraw the party whip act in the absence of an appropriate statement of regret by the peer at the centre of the controversy.
Some 13,062 delegates were expected to turn out at 53 voting centres in an election rocked during the morning hours by pockets of controversy that saw military deployed to the area to restore calm.
The approval of Otiko Afisa Djaba as Ghana new minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection has been rocked by numerous controversies.
New analysis of world - famous 3.46 billion - year - old rocks by researchers from the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and UWA (the University of Western Australia) is set to finally resolve a long running evolutionary controversy.
In a season dominated by #OscarsSoWhite, host Chris Rock tackled the controversy head - on.
The rock was installed by Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court two years ago, and it has generated controversy ever since.
Since there is controversy over the subject of climate change, it is important to study the behaviour of ice sheets in the past, in order to predict what may happen in the futureThe study focused on «erratic» rocks, which are rocks that differ totally from the local sedimentary rocks and have been transported there by moving ice.
It's only tangentially related to climate change discussions, but a microclimate in Death Valley, California has given rise to some interesting physical effects and much controversy regarding the ways big heavy rocks can be seen to have moved around on the bottom of a playa lake, untouched by external, unnatural forces.