Sentences with phrase «somewhat by a controversy»

Not exact matches

The numbers are at least a partial validation of VR's marketplace potential, at a moment when years» worth of hype, and the question of actual consumer interest, have been somewhat overshadowed by controversy.

It was the latest religious controversy in the heavily Christian Air Force, but this particular issue has ancient and somewhat surprising roots: In the early days of Christianity, it was Christians who refused to swear by powers they didn't believe in.

Jesus in an Age of Controversy By Douglas Groothuis Harvest House, 374 pages, $ 9.99 An evangelistic and somewhat polemical response to the «Jesus Seminar» and other high jinks in biblical studies.

A slightly different - but related - point is that very little damage has been done to the standing of the monarchy by principled advocacy of a republican case, while rather more damage has been done by the Royals themselves (Princess Diana, while alive, and then the somewhat turbulent response to the Royals after her death; and various other controversies and scandals).

Though a classic by today's standards, and one of Hitchcock's many great films, at the time of its release Lifeboat suffered its share of controversy, primarily for making the Nazi a somewhat likeable character.

Now, whether that is marketing limitations or some controversy with Nintendo is unclear, but the way the details were presented makes it clear that both are somewhat amused by the reasoning behind the silence.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

If this controversy sounds somewhat familiar, the game industry went through a similar debacle in 2009, when Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex based its story on a ham - fisted political novel by Orson Scott Card, a notorious anti-gay advocate.

The steepness of these reductions curves is somewhat controversial because any calculation of a carbon budget which determines the steepness of the the needed reduction curve must make assumptions about when positive feedbacks in the climate system will be triggered by rising temperatures, yet these controversies are reflected in giving different probabilities about the likelihood of achieving a specific warming limit.

Chapter 4 turns to the impact of the somewhat «isolationist» approach found in the Court's case law on international law; it does so by scrutinizing the relationship of the CJEU with a number of other international courts and tribunals, recalling for this purpose in particular the MOX plant controversy and the legal controversy surrounding the creation of the European Economic Area and the EFTA Court.