Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of opinion.

This is usually considered the beginning of what has become to be known as the Antinomian Controversy, but has more recently been called the " Free Grace Controversy ".

Controversy stems from the fact that donors effectively father children for others, often in considerable numbers, and usually take no part in the upbringing of such children, and also from the fact that single women and coupled lesbians frequently use sperm banks in order to have their own biological children.

Controversy erupted when Michael Faraday constructed the first working electric motor and hastily published his results without acknowledging Wollaston's previous work.

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

* " Controversy about a ranking of philosophy departments, or How should we think about statistical results when we can ’ t see the raw data?

He claimed that a 30 % reduction in drag was possible, but subsequent researchers were unable to duplicate these results, leading to what has been called " The Kramer Controversy.

Controversy exists as to the date on which Evagrius was born, since historian G. F. Chesnut asserts that he was born in either 536 or 537, yet the researcher Whitby claims that he was born in 535.

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In that year the iconoclast Byzantine emperor Leo III, angered by archbishops of the region because they had supported Rome in the Iconoclastic Controversy, detached the church of the province from the Roman pope and placed it under the patriarch of Constantinople.

Controversy surrounds the use of hypnotherapy to retrieve memories, especially those from early childhood or ( alleged ) past-lives.

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.

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.

Local churches were forced to appeal to Rome to obtain restitution from the imperial bishops who had taken advantage of the Investiture Controversy to obtain property for their own benefit, as the Emperor turned a blind eye.

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 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.

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.

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 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 arose over both the adoption and Depp's portrayal of a Native American character, as Depp was not raised in, nor has confirmable ancestry from, a Native American community, though he has said he " guesses " he may have some distant Cherokee or Creek ancestry.

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.

In the ensuing " Downgrade Controversy ," the Metropolitan Tabernacle became disaffiliated from the Baptist Union, effectuating Spurgeon's congregation as the world's largest self-standing church.

The Controversy took its name from Spurgeon's use of the term " Downgrade " to describe certain other Baptists ' outlook toward the Bible ( i. e., they had " downgraded " the Bible and the principle of sola scriptura ).

Controversy reared again, with claims that the album cover and title concept had been stolen from the San Francisco noise / punk band, Flipper, contemporaries of PiL, whose album, Album, featured a similarly unadorned sleeve.

Controversy arose over McQueen's Mexican trip, because McQueen sought a very non-traditional cancer treatment that used coffee enemas, frequent shampoos, injection of live cells from cows and sheep, massage and laetrile, a supposedly " natural " anti-cancer drug available in Mexico, but not approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

Controversy erupted over the attempted appointment of Jim McDaid as Minister for Defence, which saw him resign from the post before he had been officially installed, under pressure from O ' Malley.

Controversy erupted over the attempted appointment of Jim McDaid as Minister for Defence, which saw him resign from the post before he had been officially installed.

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 has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister ( Kim Howells ) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour ( Madonna ) swearing, a prize judge ( Lynn Barber ) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota ( about the purchase of a trustee's work ).

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Controversy surrounding the 1832 Reform Bill saw rioters from York attempt to invade Palace angered by initial lack of support from Archbishop Harcourt.

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.

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.

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

Its first recorded use was in 1169 when King Henry II, hard pressed by his barons over the Investiture Controversy, assumed the common theory of " divine right of kings ," that the monarch acted conjointly with the deity.

Controversy arose during the construction of the bridge over its growing cost, and a subsequent budgetary blow-out which resulted in the use of $ 20. 3 million in government funds.

Controversy has arisen because this licensing allows publication of standards requiring licensing fee payments to patent holders, the use of which would effectively eliminate the possibility of free / open source implementations of these standards.

Controversy surrounds his use of ULTRA intelligence messages during this battle.

Controversy arises when Royal Canadian Mounted Police use force and pepper spray to remove protesters.

In the Quran Oath Controversy of the 110th United States Congress, Rep. Virgil Goode ( R-VA ) issued a letter to his constituents stating his view that the decision of Representative-elect Keith Ellison ( D-MN ) to use the Quran in his swearing-in ceremony is a threat to " the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America ...

Controversy ensued because of its use of vertical gender-neutral language ( God and Christ ) and some uses of horizontal gender-neutral language (" human beings " or " they " instead of " men " or " he ").

Hogan claims ( in his autobiography, Hollywood Hulk Hogan ) that Russo made it a shoot, and Hogan was double-crossed by Turner executive Brad Siegel, who did not want to use Hogan any more due to how much Hogan cost per appearance ; and Bischoff, in his autobiography, Controversy Creates Ca $ h, contends that Hogan winning and leaving with the title was a work which would result in his return several months later-the plan was to crown a new champion at Halloween Havoc, only for Hogan to come out afterwards and ultimately win a champion vs. champion match-but that Russo's coming out to fire him was a shoot which led to the lawsuit filed by Hogan.

However, this thesis was disputed in the Great Stirrup Controversy by historians such as Bernard Bachrach, although it has been pointed out that the Carolingian riders may have been the most expert cavalry of all at its use.

Controversy surrounded the appointment, given the suspicions that drug use had been rife in East German sports and that any senior coach would have been involved or had knowledge of the drugs programme.

Controversy has arisen over the best explanation for the fact that Farwell and others who use similar scientific methods have achieved near-100 % accuracy ( Farwell et al.

Controversy broke out in the photographic community about the use of combination printing in the mid-19th century.

Controversy exists over agricultural and manufacturing issues related to the production of bamboo floors, including the environmental effects of deforestation in order to plant bamboo and the use of carcinogenic chemicals such as urea-formaldehyde in the glues used for lamination in some products.

Controversy surrounds the use of Furnace Creek water to support the resort ( complete with a swimming pool ) and nearby facilities, including a golf course.

Controversy surrounds the reciprocal use of I-PASS by Illinois motorists and I-Zoom by Indiana motorists on the other state's toll road.