Sentences with phrase «sparked international controversy»

The first part of Park51, the planned Lower Manhattan Islamic community center that sparked an international controversy last year, is set to open Wednesday with an art exhibit that features photographs of children.

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After decades of operating quietly on the margins of education, the International Baccalaureate program has leaped into the limelight, sparking the controversy and confusion that inevitably accompany innovation.

Buren's exclusion from the show — he was offered a two - week solo exhibition which would have followed the Guggenheim International, but he declined — inevitably sparked controversy.

In a recent commentary in the journal Nature that has sparked controversy, Victor, a professor of international relations at University of California San Diego and a lead author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), maintains that not only is the 2 - degree goal now unattainable, the focus on it has «almost unwittingly played into the hands of the so - called climate denialists.»