Sentences with phrase «years of controversy surrounding»

In 2015, Harvard University closed its federally - funded primate testing facility, following years of controversy surrounding the school's treatment of thousands of monkeys who were formerly imprisoned there.

Not exact matches

His role came under harsh scrutiny this year over his handling of the controversy surrounding ousted White House aide Rob Porter, who was accused of domestic abuse.

The controversy surrounding the project - new construction on an area overlapping the cemetery of Ma «man Allah (God's Sanctuary) or Mamilla, as it is known in West Jerusalem - had simmered for years.

It is by no means certain, but it is more than just possible, that Pope Benedict's September 12 lecture at the University of Regensburg and the controversy surrounding it will be referred to, five or twenty years from now, as «The Regensburg Moment.»

The controversy surrounding the refusal of a Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, to issue marriage licenses so that she can avoid sanctioning same sex unions raises a whole host of issue which will be debated for some years to come.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Last year, Dino, after the controversies surrounding his threat to beat up Senator Oluremi Tinubu, apparently fallout of the anti-Tinubu aggressions and the hoopla that followed from supporters of both, Dino, we recall, went childish with his trip to Lagos to stage an aimless strut along the Bourdillion Road, Ikoyi, the residence of Senator Tinubu's husband, who is referred to as the «Lion of Bourdillion».

Issues surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been a major source of debate and controversy over the past seven years.

Mueller had also been caught up in the controversy surrounding the Church's response to the clerical sex abuse scandal after his department was accused earlier this year of obstructing Francis's efforts to stop internal cover - ups of abuse.

Kellner told the East Side Democratic Club Thursday night he's relinquishing his seat at the end of his term this year because the controversy surrounding his alleged misconduct has become a distraction.

The report follows the controversy surrounding the case of Jamie Bauld, a Down's Syndrome sufferer who was charged with making a racist assault despite having the mental age of a five - year - old.

His fiery delivery became more measured with advancing years and controversy surrounding the techniques of mass evangelism.

Doyle has been surrounded by controversy for much of the year with the biggest potential problem concerning the indictment of a state employee for fixing — no pun intended — state contracts.

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.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

Even its acronymous nickname (pronounced an - wahr) speaks to the controversy surrounding the region, which has been at the center of a debate since its founding more than 35 years ago.

Mark McGuire ended up getting more home runs that year (and the Cubs of course never making it to the World Series), there was a lot of controversy surrounding Mark McGuire's use of creatine.

For a moment, let's just set aside all the controversy surrounding this year's Palme d'Or winning film — whether it's the graphic sex scenes, or the allegations of emotional abuse of lead actresses Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos and crew members by their director Abdellatif Kechiche — and consider that this just looks like a damn good love story.

Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg has opened up on the controversy surrounding the famous sex scene in Don't Look Now in a book of memoirs based on his 60 years...

Their impact on the genre is immeasurable, so a film certainly has a lot of potential to tell a compelling story of exactly how the group revolutionized the music industry and the controversy that surrounded them during their years of fame.

The purpoted beef between director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley aside, most of the controversy surrounding the Best Picture - winning «12 Years A Slave» has centered on audience's reactions to the film, both of Armond White and uneasy white Academy voters.

There is controversy surrounding Three Billboards though, just like there is controversy surrounding several of this year's potential nominees, like there may have been every year among the nominees.

For all the attention, controversy, and coverage that have surrounded Julian Assange's non-profit «journalistic» organization over the past several years, the English language version of the site has an Alexa.com global traffic rank of just 11,938 (the lower, the better).

With all the hype and controversy surrounding the idea of remaking «Ghostbusters» with female stars, the idea of judging the new movie on its own merits, instead of comparing it to the 32 - year - old original — arguably one of the 10 funniest and most original films ever made — is laughable.

As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.

However, despite the controversy surrounding K12 and Bennett's role in the company, the corporation's profits have grown exponentially over the years, earning hundreds of millions of dollars for K12's executives and shareholders.

The SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America) has spent the last year embroiled in controversy surrounding accusations of sexism, complete with resignations, protests, and internet petitions.

There has been a lot of controversy for a number of years surrounding over vaccination of puppies and dogs, and the long term serious health issues which that can potentially cause!

With the controversy surrounding both Other M and Federation Force, as well as the five - year hiatus between them, the early - to - mid 2010s marked a period of uncertainty surrounding the state of the Metroid series.

Though Tuttle's work is now canonical, it was met with fierce criticism early in his career: the artist's 1975 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art was received terribly by many prominent critics, most famously by Hilton Kramer of the New York Times, and curator Marcia Tucker — who went on to found the New Museum of Contemporary Art later that year — was fired from the museum, allegedly because of the controversy surrounding the show.

For six months each year, controversy surrounding the shortlisted nominees, the Tate's exhibition of their work, and the ultimate winner can reliably draw the general public attention to contemporary art, and ultimately that is the goal.

All of my work throughout the years is about a small group of people who you wouldn't know about otherwise,» expressed Clark in a 2014 interview with Erica Euse on VICE, speaking about the controversy that has always surrounded his work.

In the UK, it's been called one of the top three art controversies ever, paralleling those surrounding the exhibition of Carl Andre's work in the 1970s and James Abbot McNeill Whistler one hundred years earlier.

Controversy always surrounds this event, and this year the place has been packed out for the most outrageous selection of works yet - copulating inflatable dolls, mutilated, insect - eaten corpses and the works of a bearded transvestite potter.

Charlotte and Charles discuss Kerry James Marshall but their views on his work are diametrically opposed; they compare notes on the opening of Lynette Yiadom - Boakye's New Museum show and find nothing in common, and they broach the controversy surrounding Open Casket (2017), Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till at this year's Whitney Biennial, and artist Parker Bright's protest of the work as a «black death spectacle».

[7] Controversy surrounded the presentation of the inaugural prize to Malcolm Morley as some critics «questioned his relevance» to art in Britain; he had lived and worked in the United States for the previous 20 years.

-- Joseph Beuys Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art.

Years later, I understood that the controversy surrounding his public art taught me to pay attention to the site - specific context of my own work.

It seems strange now, at a distance of more than 40 years, to think that his own work was the cause of controversies every bit as strident as those surrounding the Chapmans.

Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art.

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

In charged times the conversation around appropriation feels particularly intractable, and I have felt that its difficulty can be traced, below one's politics, to the gut - level ambiguity of feelings (and the regard for the feelings of others), since one person's «material» is another person's life history, as the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) at this year's Whitney Biennial dramatically underscored.

In the last three years the Panel has responded to the recommendations from the independent review by the InterAcademy Council, which was launched in the aftermath of controversies surrounding the Fourth Assessment Report and introduced significant changes to its governance and procedures.

Natural gas use has soared in recent years, but so too has the controversy surrounding the environmental, public health and social impacts of how the fuel is obtained.

Yet despite the controversy that surrounded her, Paulose's tenure was not without achievement, believes Cohen (who was an associate of mine many years ago at Lawyers Weekly newspaper in Boston).

The online video site has received quite a bit of criticism over the past year, most recently the controversy surrounding YouTuber Logan Paul who recently published — and subsequently took down — a video featuring a dead body.

After the development of Bitcoin last year, especially with its hard forks and the controversy surrounding SegWit2X, this year seems to be a very productive one.

During Whitey's trial, his younger brother, William Bulger, was in active retirement after 18 years as the president of the Massachusetts Senate as well as president of the University of Massachusetts, a position he resigned in the wake of controversy surrounding his refusal to testify about his brother.

Although few if any real estate practitioners have been held liable for EIFS defects, the publicity surrounding the EIFS controversy in recent years has increased the likelihood that you might be expected to know about the defective nature of EIFS.