On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.

Botham often courted controversy and was suspended briefly in 1986 for smoking cannabis and was allegedly accused of racism and ball tampering by Imran Khan.

In 1975, Foot, along with Jennie Lee and others, courted controversy when they supported Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, after she prompted the declaration of a state of emergency.

The film courted controversy by including a nude wedding-night scene while Olivia Hussey was only fifteen.

" Burton courted further controversy in 1976 when he wrote a controversial article about his friend and fellow Welsh thespian Stanley Baker, who had recently died from pneumonia at the age of 48.

This decision courted some controversy, with tabloid press campaigns, in particular that of the Daily Mail, launched to " save Britannia ".

Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with Alain Prost.

The prison itself courted controversy for many years for its poor conditions, and was branded one of the worst gaols in the country by the Chief Inspector of Prisons in 2003.

In September 2006, Tim Hortons courted controversy by mandating that employees were not to wear red as part of the Red Fridays campaign by families of the military to show support for Canadian troops.

He courted controversy by addressing social issues in his work, and by painting subjects that were considered vulgar, such as the rural bourgeoisie, peasants, and working conditions of the poor.

He courted controversy by a public defence of the 18th-century Acadian expulsion later in the year.

The university ranking issue courted controversy when in November 2010, under the editorship of Kenneth Whyte and Mark Stevenson, reporter Stephanie Findlay and senior writer Nicholas Köhler wrote a controversial article entitled " Too Asian?

Yount courted controversy in the winter of 1978.

In September 2010 Rosindell again courted controversy when he sponsored the first Erotica event to be held in the Houses of Parliament.

While it has often seemed to distance itself from religious extremism, it has also courted controversy in free speech cases, for instance in January 2012 when it issued a fatwa calling for author Salman Rushdie to be barred from entering India to attend a literature festival because he had " hurt Muslim sentiments ".

Hopper courted controversy as well for " naming names " of suspected or alleged Communists during the Hollywood Blacklist.

That McDowell's career in government as Tánaiste is over is partly of his own making as he courted controversy to such a fevered extent that he became the most unpopular political leader in the country.

It has also had a history of media controversy, which it has courted, and has had extremes of critical reaction.

Always a journalist who courted controversy, among the targets of his disapproval were television figures such as Pat Kenny and a concept he called " Official Ireland "— by which he meant the Irish media and cultural elite, epitomised by the newspaper The Irish Times and then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

In January 1998 Gascoigne again courted controversy after he played a mock flute ( symbolic of the flute-playing of Orange Order marchers ) during an Old Firm match at Celtic Park, which was televised live on Sky Sports.

During the election Smyth courted controversy when he and former Ulster Unionist leader James Molyneaux appeared in a photograph with Democratic Unionist Party candidate Jimmy Spratt on Spratt's election literature.

Badeni courted controversy when, in an attempt to gain the support of the Young Czech faction in the Reichsrat, he addressed the language issue in Bohemia.

The ECB courted further controversy in 2005 when they appeared to dither over the employment contract of the bowling coach Troy Cooley who was seen by many as an important contributor to England's Ashes success.

In an interview with The Guardian published on 5 January 2007, Pearson courted considerable controversy by publicly criticising several airlines, particularly Ryanair, for failing to pull their weight in lowering UK carbon emissions.

Following his 1997 Election to the House of Commons, he courted controversy in 2001 by offering support for John Townend over his controversial remarks about race ; he later apologised for any offence caused by offering this support.

A lot of admirers courted Gillespie's skills and attributes as a player, especially as he was a player who was involved in numerous, successful, relegation battles with Coventry for six seasons, he ultimately got his big move and it was Liverpool that got his signature on 8 July 1983 for £ 325, 000.

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

Despite being courted by several suitors, Bess remained single for a relatively long time, until 1568, when she married for the fourth time to become Countess of Shrewsbury.

In Earl Strom's memoir Calling the Shots, Strom conveys both the heady sense of being courted by a rival league with money to burn — and also the depression that set in the next year when he began refereeing in the ABA, with lesser players performing in inadequate arenas, in front of very small crowds.

In reality, the two never met and the Queen of England was actually courted nearly ten years later by his younger brother François, Duke of Anjou when Elizabeth was 46.

Buñuel courted her in a formal Aragonese manner, complete with a chaperone, and they married in 1934 despite a warning by Jean Epstein when Buñuel first proposed in 1930: " Jeanne, you are making a mistake ...

Lord was again courted for federal politics in late 2003 when the PC Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged into the Conservative Party of Canada.

The initial story was first introduced in 1973, when depiction of fornication courted protests, so CBS insisted their hero Matt have the encounter when he had amnesia.

The experience left her unimpressed with Hollywood and when she was courted by MGM, she initially refused their offers of a contract.

The Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge courted controversy amongst the academic community in March 1992, when three of its members posed a temporary veto against the awarding an honorary doctorate to Jacques Derrida ; they and other non-Cambridge proponents of analytic philosophy protested the granting on the grounds that Derrida's work " did not conform with accepted measures of academic rigor.

He courted controversy in 1775 when his satirical picture " The Conjurer " was seen to attack the fashion for Italian Renaissance art and to ridicule Sir Joshua Reynolds ( it also included a nude caricature of fellow Academician Angelica Kauffmann, later painted out by Hone ), and was rejected by the Royal Academy.

In April 2010, he courted controversy when he partially defended Jenny Tonge, another Liberal Democrat peer following an interview she gave to the Jewish Chronicle in which she called for an investigation into claims of Israeli organ harvesting in Haiti.

He did not remarry until 1975, over a decade later, when he courted Gale Lester ( currently Gale Morrow Butler ).

In August 2009, Helmer courted controversy when he supported his fellow MEP Daniel Hannan's criticism of the NHS.

A year after his first election, Hannan courted controversy when he appeared to be using the Conservative Party's central office as headquarters for a campaign to persuade Danish voters to block the introduction of the European Single Currency ; however, he was able to show that the campaign was actually being run from his Westminster flat.

In Book Three, the darkest part of the saga, ten years have elapsed and Halo has become a soldier serving in a Vietnam-style guerrilla interstellar war which has appeared as back-story in the previous two books, and is courted by a famous, fearsome-looking general, Luiz Cannibal.

Though there is no doubting Fénelon's skill as a writer and her unsparing analysis of the concentration camp experience, many of the surviving members of the orchestra took issue with her portrayal of Alma Rosé, who appeared in Fénelon's memoir as a cruel disciplinarian and self-hating Jew who admired the Nazis and courted their favor.