Sentences with phrase «with considerable controversy»

But the rule rollback was met with considerable controversy and anger from privacy and rights groups, for fear that internet providers like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon would be able to gather and sell data about your browsing history to marketers and other companies, including information on customer location, as well as as financial or health status information, and what people shop and search for.

Every Quentin Tarantino film has been greeted with considerable controversy and critical scrutiny, with arguments concerning each new release ranging...

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Since the UK has little recent experience with hung parliaments, and given the different precedents and principles that have been applied in the past, there could be considerable debate and even controversy after the next election.

The Hugo Young Papers took the «political book of the year» award, beating Cherie Blair's autobiography - which caused considerable controversy on its release - and Prezza: My Story, the biography of former deputy prime minister John Prescott, in which he discussed his battle with bulimia.

It has received considerable public attention in recent years with the return of injured soldiers and the demand for prosthetic devices and with controversies surrounding the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.

But then it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch film - maker who back in the Nineties showed how brilliant he could be with Total Recall but then went on to court considerable controversy with both Basic Instinct and Showgirls.

The first dream sequence, occurring shortly after he has joined up with the Wehrmacht as a Russian - German translator, takes place inside a church where Hitler and Stalin are shown gleefully dancing together to a light piano arrangement of «Deutschland über Alles» — an ironic, absurdist image which attracted considerable controversy in both Germany and Poland despite being taken from dreams remembered by the real Solly.

Even before it hit screens, The Ridiculous 6, Adam Sandler's first film in his four - movie deal with Netflix came under considerable controversy as many of the Native American actors cast in the film walked off the set, objecting to the film's outdated stereotypes and offensive jokes at the expense of their people.

After all, the questionable campaigns and elections that transpired in Cambodia and Zimbabwe are merely two among many that have generated considerable controversy this year, with 2013 shaping up to be a banner year for competitive authoritarian systems across the world.

The subject of the work, and its execution, caused considerable controversy in New York, with Rudolph Giuliani — then Mayor of New York City — describing Ofili's work as «sick».

The «hockey stick» curve showing reconstructed temperature data over the last 1000 years — with recent temperatures rising sharply — attracted considerable controversy when it was published in 1999 and included in the IPCC 2001 report.

There was considerable controversy over Dr Mann's reinterpretation of the size and extent of the MWP and LIA which we shall return to later, but as can be readily seen in Figure 6 his concept of climate history was at substantial variance with much of Lamb's version, based on his 1965 CET work.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

This proposal resulted in considerable controversy among unit owners, with one director, in particular, spearheading the opposition to this proposal.

... Google Glass, which has been the focus of considerable controversy, went on sale Tuesday — for one day only — at US$ 1,500, with Android KitKat and new features that include improved battery life, photo bundles, photo replies and voice command sorting.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13