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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.
Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.
In the GNU / Linux naming controversy the FSF argues for the term GNU / Linux because GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free operating system, of which they say the kernel was the last missing piece.
When the last male member of the Salian dynasty, Emperor Henry V, had died without heirs in 1125, a controversy arose about the succession.
The shroud's origins are still a matter of controversy, but in 1988, a carbon dating analysis concluded that the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390, a span that includes the last half-century of the Templars ' existence.
The last years of his life were embittered by the disputes over the Interim and the freshly started controversy on the Lord's Supper.
The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph of the Church over the last of the great heresies which troubled her ( all later heresies being simply a rehashing of earlier ones ).
Pasquier Quesnel ( 1634 – 1719 ), whose book Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament set off the last major flare-up of the Jansenist controversy, ultimately leading to the 1713 papal bull Unigenitus.
Two more singles were released, " Palace & Main " and " Den döda vinkeln " ( The blind spot ) – the last one stirring up some controversy among Kent fans because Kent didn't release any b-sides along with it ( but still the single has a shorter version of the song ).
Due to controversy engendered by some of these individuals having re-offended, Dukakis curtailed the practice later, issuing no commutations in his last three years as governor.
The cipher stone, which one researcher is said to have translated to read " Forty feet below two million pounds is buried ", was allegedly last seen in the early 20th century ( exact dates are a topic of controversy ).
TW3 also flouted conventions by adopting " a relaxed attitude to its running time: loosely structured and open-ended, it seemed to last just as long as it wanted and needed to last, even if that meant going beyond the advertised time for the ending [...] the real controversy of course, was caused by the content.
" In the millennia since his death, Theramenes has been both idealized and reviled ; his brief seven year career in the spotlight, touching as it did on all the major points of controversy in the last years of the Peloponnesian War, has been subject to myriad different interpretations.
A controversy exists over whether or not Hank Williams was last seen alive in Bluefield on his way to a show in Ohio.
This was a typical statement reflecting the controversy about Brown's work, which has continued over the last 200 years.
Immediately after the flight, a controversy broke out around a last minute rule change regarding the precise timing of the flight.
Division and controversy centred on this motion and its application continued to the extent that, ten years later, in 2007, Giles Goddard of Inclusive Church suggested in published correspondence with Andrew Goddard across the liberal-evangelical divide: " It's possible to construct a perfectly coherent argument that the last 10 years have been preoccupied with undoing the damage Lambeth 1. 10 caused to the Communion.
What could have become a major controversy in the mid-1930s concerned the last of the four European buildings that remained unnamed.
His last important controversy was his defense of the Holy See in its deposition of the French bishops, which he said had been necessitated by the new order of things in France established by the Concordat of 1801.
The last of these was a republication of his Grundzüge der verlorenen Abhandlungen des Aristoteles über die Wirkung der Tragodie ( 1857 ), which aroused considerable controversy.
Asked how the Iraqis he had interviewed felt about the war, Russell said Although Russell had planned to release the film before November 2004, hoping to " perhaps make a difference before the election ," Warner Brothers abandoned the project at the last minute, citing " controversy surrounding the documentary, combined with a later-than-expected arrival of the bonus footage ".
There remained one last great controversy during the war which would blacken the name of Bomber Command and surpass the firestorm of Hamburg in both destruction and casualties.
In the aftermath of the recapture of the city, the discovery of several mass graves ( the last of which were uncovered in 1970 ) of South Vietnamese citizens of Hue sparked a controversy that has not diminished with time.

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In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.
This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.
The finish, however, was clouded in controversy: in the final few hours, the Ford GT of New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon closely trailed the leading Ford GT driven by Englishman Ken Miles and New Zealander Denny Hulme.
He resigned a few weeks into the 2003 NFL season after making comments about the press coverage for quarterback Donovan McNabb that caused controversy and accusations of racism on the part of Limbaugh.
In a few cases, his public arrests of alleged white-collar criminals at their workplaces with charges later dropped or lessened, sparked controversy, and damaged the reputations of the alleged " perps ".
The Union Flag also became a prominent symbol of the movement, and its use as a symbol of pride and nationalism contrasted deeply with the controversy that erupted just a few years before when former Smiths singer Morrissey performed draped in it.
Within a few months, the controversy about the distance scale ended: GRBs were extragalactic events originating within faint galaxies at enormous distances.
Within a few years the movement spread all over Iran, causing controversy.
Over the next few years, the controversy surrounding the faith healer, at first kept out of the Dutch media, erupted into a national debate over the competency of the queen.
The Lexington Police Department has been embroiled in controversy over the past few years.
Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy.
Because the harvesting of ambergris involves no harm to its animal source, it remains one of the few animalic fragrancing agents around which little controversy now exists.
This town of just a few dozen residents, became a center for controversy on environmental racism .< ref > Bullard, Robert D. " Environmental Racism in the Alabama Black Belt.
This was a result of controversy that started a few weeks prior in the same park when, at a different festival, singer Ray-J used inappropriate language.
In 1941 Huxley was invited to the United States on a lecturing tour, and generated some controversy by saying that he thought the United States should join World War II: a few weeks later came the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The payment has become a point of controversy, since constables in Kentucky have few actual duties.
The Singur controversy was one of the few occasions when Ratan Tata was forced to publicly address criticisms and concerns on any environmental or social issue.
This was augmented by controversy surrounding the annual Turner Prize, ( one of Britain's few major awards for contemporary artists ), which had several of the artists as nominees or winners.
A notable controversy in Canadian magazine publishing in recent years has been the existence of split run magazines, where a title published in another country, such as TIME or Sports Illustrated, is republished in Canada with a few pages of special Canadian content, in order to take advantage of Canadian advertising sales revenues.
However, controversy was never far away, and on his return to Elland Road to play Leeds a few weeks later, he spat at a fan and was fined £ 1, 000 by the FA.
As in Ward's fight with Burke a few months earlier, there is controversy as the referee is again forced by Ward's backers to rule in his favour.
Aside from the name controversy, Moreno's first few seasons as owner of the Angels have been largely successful.
The interpretation of the symbolic dance of honey bees as a communicative language has been questioned by a few, though numerous experimental results over the last several decades have effectively laid this controversy to rest.
Further controversy occurred in 2005 when the club was criticised ( including by a few of its own members ) for siding with the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ) over the latter's decision to award television rights for Test cricket to British Sky Broadcasting, thus removing Test cricket from terrestrial television.

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