Ever since the fourth century a controversy had raged over the person of Christ.

By 325, the controversy had become significant enough that the Emperor Constantine called an assembly of bishops, the First Council of Nicaea, which condemned Arius ' doctrine and formulated the original Nicene Creed of 325.

The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.

On the other hand, they may have been related to the adoptionist controversy which had brought Bermudo's kingdom into Charlemagne's view.

It is from this period that the later Syria Vs Assyria naming controversy arises, the Seleucids applied the name not only to Assyria itself, but also to the lands to the west ( Aram modern Syria ) which had been part of the Assyrian empire.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

The book was translated into English and caused controversy in the United States, and Morita later had has chapters removed from the English version and distanced himself from the book.

The White House responded to the controversy by claiming the firings were done because of financial improprieties that had been revealed by a brief FBI investigation.

Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

It would have been very strange indeed for Paul to have omitted the fact that the apostles and elders of the Jerusalem church had not laid circumcision as a requirement upon the Gentiles considering the topic of the epistle after it became a controversy in Galatia.

It was a hushed affair conducted at a registry office ; Harris had revealed she was pregnant, and the star was eager to avoid controversy.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

By this time, news of the controversy in the capital had reached Alexandria.

Counter-Strike faced controversy in April 2007 when Jack Thompson, now a disbarred attorney from Florida, predicted that the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre had been trained to kill in the game, well before Seung-Hui Cho ( the shooter ) was identified.

While the modern history of environmental law is one of continuing controversy, by the end of the 20th Century, environmental law had been established as a component of the legal landscape in all developed nations of the world, many developing ones, and the larger project of international law.

The redistricting controversy contributed to Gerry's defeat in 1812 ( once again at the hands of Caleb Strong, whom the Federalists had brought out of retirement ).< ref > Buel, pp. 148 – 149

It demarcated the end of the Investiture controversy which had begun before the time of Pope Gregory VII.

Europe had come to expect an end to the Investiture controversy, and was not willing to return to the old days when the Holy Roman Emperor named the pope.

The most pressing issue was that of the Investiture controversy which had consumed nearly a century of contention and open warfare.

The Council of Nicaea in 325 had not ended the Arian controversy which it had been called to clarify.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.

The controversy caused by the fact that the film was shot in English was the reason he was expelled from the film school.

Many drugs produce an antidepressant effect, but restrictions on their use have caused controversy and off-label prescription is a risk, despite claims of superior efficacy.

The selections have caused some controversy, mainly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues in the years before there was a national competition.

The moves to develop the port for more tourism have been welcomed by the city and its residents, but the latest plans to develop an industrial estate in the port have caused great controversy.

This was the tour to New Zealand where the tourists now standard blue jerseys caused some controversy.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

Chaplin's brief involvement with Barry caused him much trouble and controversy.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

There are two assumptions relating to California chaparral fire regimes that appear to have caused considerable debate, and sometimes confusion and controversy, within the fields of wildfire ecology and land management.

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

the Extra-Terrestrial, in which special effects are redone in addition to a new edit, have also caused controversy.

His Inger On the Beach ( 1889 ), which caused another storm of confusion and controversy, hints at the simplified forms, heavy outlines, sharp contrasts, and emotional content of his mature style to come.

The exactness of Ernst Haeckel's drawings of embryos has caused much controversy among Intelligent Design proponents recently and Haeckel's intellectual opponents in the past.

His fight with Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu master William Cheung in 1986, at a seminar in Germany, caused controversy in the wider Wing Chun community.

In 2009 Zelaya caused controversy with his call to have a constitutional referendum in June to decide about convening a Constitutional National Assembly to formulate a new constitution.

Holden caused controversy in 2005 with their Holden Employee Pricing television advertisement, which ran between October and December 2005.

Withdrawing the advert caused further controversy with Heinz being accused of homophobia.

This game has caused some controversy -- because, although it was released in 1995, it contains two cards reminiscent of the 9 / 11.

The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior.