Sentences with phrase «sparks fierce controversy»

In a relatively short period of time, the debate over patent reform has transformed an arcane, low - salience issue into one that sparks fierce controversy and national headlines.

Not exact matches

Although one of the land swaps enjoys wide support, the other has sparked controversy and a fierce debate among environmentalists.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

The debate over the possible existence of a warming slowdown has sparked fierce scientific controversy over the past two decades.