Controversies are frequently thought to be a result of a lack of confidence on the part of the disputants-as in Benford's Law of Controversy.

Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

Controversy later surrounded Body Count over its song " Cop Killer ", a song intended as a narrative from the view of a criminal getting revenge on racist police officers guilty of brutality, from the National Rifle Association and various police advocacy groups.

Controversy erupted on the 2004 set for Manderlay when actor John C. Reilly walked off the Trollhättan, Sweden, set in late March.

* 1717 – A sermon on " The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ " by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

: The Controversy Over Political Correctness on College Campuses.

* The Controversy over Newton's Gravitational Constant — additional commentary on measurement problems

* March 31 – Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George, begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying that God favors churches with no government.

He repulsed the attack of Cordatus in a letter to Luther and his other colleagues by stating that he had never departed from their common teachings on this subject, and in the Antinomian Controversy of 1537 Melanchthon was in harmony with Luther.

Emboldened by the promotion, and incensed over the imposition of a new tax on ducal lords, Lothair subsequently revolted against Henry's rule and denied Henry's ability to rule Saxony during the Investiture Controversy.

Controversy surrounded the network in 2002 and 2003 over obscenities, expressed respectively by Cher and Nicole Richie, aired live on the network's broadcasts of the Billboard Music Awards on its affiliates in the Eastern and Central Time Zones despite the use of five-second audio delays ; the indecent material was edited out on broadcasts in the Mountain Time Zone and westward.

In 1991, when Wolin published a Derrida interview on Heidegger in the first edition of The Heidegger Controversy, Derrida argued that the interview was an intentionally malicious mistranslation, which was " demonstrably execrable " and " weak, simplistic, and compulsively aggressive ".

* The Burial of the Dead ( at Vergina ) or The Unending Controversy on the Identity of the Occupants of Tomb II

The songs on Controversy were published by Controversy Music – ASCAP, a practice he continued until the Emancipation album in 1996.

To publish his songs on Emancipation, Prince did not use Controversy Music – ASCAP, which he had used for all his records since 1981, but rather used Emancipated Music Inc. – ASCAP.

Controversy ensued at FCC hearings over Noble's intention to keep Mark Woods on as president, which led to the suggestion that Woods would continue to work with ( and for ) his former employers.

* WashingtonPost. com-' Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job: Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle East Caused Controversy ', Bradley Graham, Washington Post ( August 1, 2003 )

The Hispanic Caucus Controversy ( see above ) was parodied on The Colbert Report on February 7, 2007.

Controversy erupted during the midst of the second season when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show's production, although his influence was felt until the completion of the second season ; at that point, Bob Engels was brought on to be an executive producer of the series.

On December 21, 2006, Dr. Heidi Cullen reacted to this by posting " Junk Controversy not Junk Science " in a blog on the Weather Channel's web site.

A video documentary called Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project was created in 2006 that investigates the Tocks Island Dam Project.

In particular the so-called Plague of Justinian had ravaged the region and conflict remained endemic, with the Three-Chapter Controversy sparking religious opposition and administration at a standstill after the able governor of the peninsula, Narses, was recalled.

In the Investiture Controversy which began between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII over appointments to ecclesiastical offices, the emperor was compelled to submit to the Pope at Canossa in 1077, after having been excommunicated.

Imperial rights had been referred to as regalia since the Investiture Controversy, but were enumerated for the first time at Roncaglia as well.

He points out that Liberatus wrote his Breviarium at the height of the Three-Chapter Controversy, " when Vigilius was being regarded by his opponents as anti-Christ and Liberatus was prominent among these opponents ", and the Liber Pontificalis drew from an account written at the same time.

Controversy erupted when he stated, " Equagesic was not at all involved in Bruce's first collapse ".

As of 2008, Dembski serves as a senior fellow at the CSC, where he plays a central role in the center's extensive public and political campaigns advancing the concept of intelligent design and its teaching in public schools through its " Teach the Controversy " campaign as part of the institute's wedge strategy.

Controversy has arisen at times when teams have made decisions that could threaten a players long-term health for short term gain.

" This shows, by the absence of the regnal year of the emperor, that despite his involvement in the reconciliation at Canossa, Amadeus II was neutral in the wider Investiture Controversy and the wars against Henry IV that it caused in Germany.

Controversy arose in Britain in 1967 when the mooted premiere at Britain's National Theatre was cancelled, due to the intervention of the National Theatre board, despite the support for the play of Laurence Olivier, under pressure from his wife, and Kenneth Tynan.

Controversy emerged on the first day of the First Test at Brisbane.

On the 101st anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, he preached a sermon at Old Jewry meeting house entitled " A Discourse on the Love of our Country ", thus igniting a so-called " pamphlet war " known as the Revolution Controversy, furiously debating the issues raised by the French Revolution.

Controversy existed as to whether Larimer County ended at the Medicine Bow Range or at the Continental Divide thirty miles farther west.

Controversy was fuelled when Robbe-Grillet and Resnais appeared to give contradictory answers to the question whether the man and woman had actually met at Marienbad last year or not ; this was used as a means of attacking the film by those who disliked it.

The reformist Papacy, at odds with the Holy Roman Emperor ( the Investiture Controversy ) and the Roman nobility itself, resolved to recognize the Normans and secure them as allies.

Controversy arose because of the use of obscenities in his counter-culture routine known at the " Seven Dirty Words ".

* Amos ' n ' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy at Internet Movie Database-Video by Hulu

* November-Marprelate Controversy: The first tract by " Martin Marprelate ", known as the Epistle, appears at Molesey.

Controversy surrounds the assertion that a massacre by Israelis took place at al-Tantura and Lydda.

Dagobert spent Christmas of 1094 with Pope Urban, and then accompanied him on his pastoral tour of Italy and France, including the Council of Piacenza, held to reassert the pope's authority after the Investiture Controversy, and the Council of Clermont, at which the pope launched the First Crusade.