8 sentences with 'controversial'
Example sentences and phrases with the word controversial and other words derived from it.
• « Shortly after osteopathy's breakthrough, David Palmer introduced another controversial speciality: chiropractic. Both disciplines were based on the same principles, but chiropractors always maintained that vertebral disorders damaged the nervous system and not the circulatory system. »
• « Practitioners of this controversial healing method say that each crystal has a property that differentiates it from the others and should therefore be applied to the corresponding chakra or energy centre. »
• « Spinoza's work was so controversial that he was condemned as an atheist not only by the Jewish community, but also by the Catholic Church and several Protestant churches. »
• « The newly liberalised parliament that followed quickly voted to end slavery in the British territories (1833), passed the controversial Poor Laws that created public workhouses (1834) for the unemployed, and eliminated corrupt and archaic municipal governments and replaced them with elected councils. »
• « The company's management was apparently wary of the controversial project, as at least one member of the board of directors was not aware of its existence, and the secret was kept secret until the press brought it to light. »
• « Despite all the publicity surrounding the controversial affair, an internal report by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs, dated August 1990, stated that there was probably not enough evidence to prosecute any of the companies involved. »
• « In his testimony and in his book, North has always maintained that absolutely all of his controversial actions received the approval of CIA Director William Casey. »
• « Hawking's mother, Isobel, wrote a letter in defence of the writer, her son: "It is the ideas that are difficult, not the language. The book is controversial; many people object to its conclusions in one respect or another, but the work is thought-provoking." »