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 Football player Justin Pitrucha was suspended following felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 2, 000 feet of a school.

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.

Controversy over the meaning and application of Fetting's twelfth message became so great that Fetting himself was " silenced " in October 1929 by the Temple Lot organization.

Gray, Michael W. Herren, " Columbanus and the Three Chapters Controversy: A New Approach ," Journal of Theological Studies, NS, 45 ( 1994 ) 160 – 170.

Then, in the time of Pope Gregory VII ( 1073 – 1085 ), canonists who in the Investiture Controversy quoted the prohibition in canon 22 of the Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870 against laymen influencing the appointment of prelates elevated this council to the rank of ecumenical council.

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 ".

The heresies of Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) distorted Lurianic Kabbalah and led to the Jacob Emden # Emden-Eybeschütz controversy | Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy.

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.

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

* 1122 – Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.

* 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.

Pope Clement IX ( 1600 – 1669 ), whose intervention in the Formulary Controversy led to a 32-year lull ( 1669 – 1701 ) in the controversy over Jansenism known as the Peace of Clement IX.

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 over the use of the phrase " Every seat lost to the government is a seat sold to the Boers " as the Unionists waged a personalised campaign against Liberal critics of the war – some posters even portrayed Liberal MPs praising President Kruger and helping him to haul down the Union Jack.

*" Geraldo Rivera Official Statement Regarding Embedment Controversy ", 4 April 2003 – Rivera tells the story of his Iraq " Map in the Sand " ( archive )

*" The Late Chilean Controversy " John Bassett Moore, in Political Science Quarterly, vol 8 ( 1893 ), pp 467 – 94.

From 1926 – 29, a small group of persons and congregations were expelled or voluntarily left the WELS in an incident known as the " Protes ' tant Controversy.

The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318 – 381.

Marcellus of Ancyra And the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325 – 345.

Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury ( 1591 – 1643 ), was a Puritan woman, spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.