In the 12th century, there occurred the Investiture Controversy where the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope fought over who could appoint Bishops.

In Italy the breakaway from their feudal overlords occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248 ; see Lombard League ).

Controversy occurred when Raymond Damadian took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times headlined " The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted " saying that the Nobel committee had not included him as a Prize winner alongside Lauterbur and Mansfield for his early work on the MRI.

Controversy occurred when a misspoken word in the President's Presidential Medal of Freedom speech came to be known as ' Gafa Obamy ' or Obama's gaffe, when the President referred to ' a Polish death camp ' when talking of the Nazi German transit death camp that Karski had visited.

Controversy for DragonForce occurred in late 2006 shortly after the Inhuman Rampage tour gained larger audiences in later cities.

The breakaway from their feudal overlords by these communes occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248-see Lombard League ).

Controversy occurred the next inning when Lonnie Smith reached first on an error by Scott Leius.

Controversy occurred after the 1929 – 30 championship when finalists Excélsior F. C.

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.

Controversy over Omari's identity erupted shortly after the attacks.

Controversy erupted when photographs taken after Potter's climb appeared to show damage caused by a climbing technique called top roping.

Controversy arose when Victor, bishop of Rome a generation after Anicetus, attempted to excommunicate Polycrates of Ephesus and all other bishops of Asia for their Quartodecimanism.

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.

Frederick III and I, known as Frederick Barbarossa because of his red beard, struggled throughout his reign to restore the power and prestige of the German monarchy against the dukes, whose power had grown both before and after the Investiture Controversy under his Salian predecessors.

It is commonly believed that this became the dominant European cavalry tactic in the 11th century after the development of the cantled saddle and stirrups ( the Great Stirrup Controversy ), and of rowel spurs ( which enabled better control of the mount ).

Controversy continued to dog the National Coalition when the President of Ireland, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, resigned in 1976 after being called a " thundering disgrace " by the Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan.

Controversy followed the Pinto after 1977 allegations that the Pinto's structural design allowed its fuel tank filler neck to break off and the fuel tank to be punctured in a rear-end collision, resulting in deadly fires from spilled fuel.

Controversy erupted soon after, both within the Theosophical Society and without, in Hindu circles and the Indian press.

Controversy erupted in Israel after their song was selected, " Shir Habatlanim " by Datner & Kushnir.

Controversy did not come until after MacBride's death in 1995, when the Laura Ingalls Wilder Branch of the Wright County Library ( which Wilder helped found ) in Mansfield, Missouri, decided it was worth trying to recover the rights.

Controversy came after MacBride's death in 1995, when the local library in Mansfield, Missouri, contended that Wilder's original will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, all rights to revert to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library after her death.

Controversy over wounded Mahdist killed after the battle began soon afterwards.

Controversy would surround the major shareholder of the mining company, Broken Hill Proprietary ( BHP ), which is now known as BHP Billiton, when it allowed mine waste to be dumped directly in the Ok Tedi River after a tailings dam built by Bechtel was destroyed in a landslide.

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.

* Muslims living in Western countries, especially during periods of heightened tensions, such as after September 11, 2001, or during the Danish Cartoon Controversy of 2005 – 2006, are sometimes accused of being more loyal to the Muslim ummah than to their country.

Controversy over the election's outcome continued after the certification of the hand recount results.

Controversy erupted around Fowler after he reportedly refused to play against the Brisbane Roar on 23 January after being named on the interchange bench for the clash.

" Controversy and attention surrounding " Regional Airline " pilot qualifications, experience and comparatively onerous work and rest rules increased after the crash of Colgan 3407 in 2009.

Days after Owens promised his fans he would return to play against Philadelphia Eagles, he overdosed on his medication ( See Controversy Section ).

The Preparedness Movement, also referred to as the Preparedness Controversy, was a campaign led by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt to strengthen the military of the United States after the outbreak of World War I.

Controversy arose in that incident because the then incumbent Menteri Besar was replaced by the Sultan with a member from Barisan Nasional without there having been a vote of no-confidence on the floor of the State Assembly against the then incumbent Menteri Besar, after he had unsuccessfully sought for the dissolution of the State Assembly.

In his book, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, Watterson described Robinson's long pass as " truly a breathtaking achievement ".

Controversy still dogged the player as before the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg clash with Liverpool, Drogba was accused of diving by Liverpool coach Rafael Benítez.

Controversy dogged the club in the 2001 / 02 season due to player registration irregularities.

By the early 18th century, this initial portrayal was rejected by the Dominicans and Franciscans, creating a dispute among Catholics in East Asia that was known as the " Rites Controversy ".

Controversy around this issue was frequent.

The term " fundamentalism " was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist – Modernist Controversy of that time.

The reform-minded Pope Gregory VII was determined to oppose such practices, leading to the Investiture Controversy with King Henry IV ( r. 1056 – 1106 ), who repudiated the Pope's interference and persuaded his bishops to excommunicate the Pope, whom he famously addressed by his born name " Hildebrand ", rather than his divine name " Pope Gregory VII ".

Matilda of Tuscany ( Italian: Matilde, Latin: Matilda, Mathilda ) ( 1046 – 24 July 1115 ) was an Italian noblewoman, the principal Italian supporter of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy.

It was reprinted in 2005 under the title The Bigfoot Film Controversy, with additional material by Chris Murphy.

Accompanying Callixtus throughout France, he assisted Callixtus in his initial dealings with Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. As a well-known opponent of the emperor's right to select bishops in his territories ( the Investiture Controversy ), Lamberto was a natural choice for papal legate.

His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat of Worms ( in 1122 ).

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.

In 1837, the church was split by the Old School-New School Controversy.

Controversy about silicon's character dates to its discovery: silicon was first prepared and characterized in pure form in 1824, and given the name silicium ( from, flints ), with an-ium word-ending to suggest a metal, a name which the element retains in several non-English languages.

Simony was also one of the important issues during the Investiture Controversy.

The century began while the translatio imperii of 962 was still somewhat novel and ended in the midst of the Investiture Controversy.

In particular, Gregory decreed in this second council that only the Pope could appoint or depose bishops or move them from see to see, an act which was later to cause the Investiture Controversy.

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

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.

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.

The best-known and bitterest conflict was that known as the Investiture Controversy, fought during the 11th century between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII.

In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools found to have breached the Competition Act ( see below under " Controversy ").

The effect of Derrida's paper was such that by the time the conference proceedings were published in 1970, the title of the collection had become The Structuralist Controversy.