7 sentences with 'controversy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word controversy and other words derived from it.
• « However, this concept did not quell the controversy at all, because it created a distinct position with which people could disagree - rival groups of Christians came to refer to their enemies as "heretics", from the word "heresy", which simply means "choice". »
• « In the late third century, an Egyptian Christian priest named Arius created a firestorm of controversy when he made a simple logical argument: God the father had created Jesus, so it made no sense that Jesus was the same as God. »
• « The controversy weakened the empire by dividing it between iconoclasts loyal to the emperors' official policy and traditionalists who venerated the icons, while the empire itself continued to be beset by invasions. »
• « Clearly, much has changed in the centuries since the Protestant Reformation unleashed its storm of controversy and bloodshed. »
• « Even the system of administering the Nobel Peace Prize has become a source of bitter controversy. The committee is based in Oslo, Norway, and is composed of five people elected by the Storting, or Norwegian Parliament. »
• « The cerebral cortex shows the division that has caused more than one controversy; the right and left hemispheres are physically differentiated, although the same cannot be said of their functions. »
• « This new and unusual form of environmental pollution generates controversy among specialists, who still do not have the elements to establish the exact type of damage that household appliances are causing us. »