The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

In the early days of this controversy over the theater one of the interested parties, Stephen Gosson, published a little tract in which he objected mildly to the abuses of art, rather than the art itself.

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

The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.

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Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

One effect of the Communion's dispersed authority has been that conflict and controversy regularly arise over the effect divergent practices and doctrines in one part of the Communion have on others.

The controversy over the Ikin catch was one of the biggest disputes of the era.

* Following controversy over possible increased mortality ( death ) related to antipsychotics in individuals with dementia, warnings have been added to packaging.

There is some controversy over maintenance therapy for schizophrenia.

However, this intention was thwarted by a combination of ethnic antagonism, aesthetic controversy and political struggles over the institutional control of public art.

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.

His interest in computus, the science of calculating the date of Easter, was also useful in the account he gives of the controversy between the British and Anglo-Saxon church over the correct method of obtaining the Easter date.

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.

Another later movie from De Palma, Redacted, unleashed a torrent of controversy over its subject of American involvement in Iraq, and supposed atrocities committed there.

The controversy over genetically engineered biological weapons, Journal of Medical Ethics, Volume 35, pp. 429 – 432 ( 2009 ).

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak continued to stick to his daily writing schedule even during the controversy over Doctor Zhivago.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states that " A controversy existed in the primitive church over the interpretation of the expression the seed of Abraham.

Some controversy exists over the accuracy of these legends and the prevalence of actual cannibalism in the culture.

Mainstream CBT helps individuals replace " maladaptive ... coping skills, cognitions, emotions and behaviors with more adaptive ones ", by challenging an individual's way of thinking and the way that he / she reacts to certain habits or behaviors, but there is still controversy about the degree to which these traditional cognitive elements account for the effects seen with CBT over and above the earlier behavioral elements such as exposure and skills training.

There is a long-standing controversy between CL and Scheme advocates over the tradeoffs involved in multiple namespaces.

# The relationship of faith and works in salvation was defined, following controversy over Martin Luther's doctrine of " justification by faith alone ".

Serious divisions existed from this battle over the Investiture controversy, which fractured large portions of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany and Italy.

Co-founder Mike Magee left the company amid some controversy after posting criticism of The Register management, complaining that The Register had become a " vehicle of software ", on 23 August 2001.

The DMCA specifically provides for reverse engineering of software for interoperability purposes, so there was some controversy as to whether software license agreement clauses which restrict this are enforceable.

Such controversy has led opponents of trusted computing, such as free software activist Richard Stallman, to refer to it instead as treacherous computing, even to the point where some scholarly articles have begun to place scare quotes around " trusted computing ".

* Editor Art Childs writes about the letter he received from the " author of Altair Basic " and the resulting controversy on propriety software.

The delineation between system software such as operating systems and application software is not exact, however, and is occasionally the object of controversy.

The GNU / Linux naming controversy is a dispute among members of the free and open source software community over how to refer to the computer operating system commonly called Linux.

For example, Larry McVoy ( author of the proprietary software BitKeeper, once used to manage Linux kernel development, until the gratis license was revoked in a reverse-engineering controversy ) opined that " claiming credit only makes one look foolish and greedy ".

In the past, Gaussian, Inc. has attracted controversy for its licensing terms that stipulate that researchers who develop competing software packages are not permitted to use the software.

The Sender ID proposal was the subject of controversy regarding intellectual property licensing issues: Microsoft holds patents on key parts of Sender ID and used to license those patents under terms that were not compatible with the GNU General Public License and which were considered problematic for free software implementations in general.

Haxies are a source of controversy among Macintosh software developers.

In the late 1990s, Yourdon became the centre of controversy over his beliefs that Y2K-related computer problems would result in severe software failures that would culminate in widespread social collapse.

The album was one of many included in the Sony rootkit controversy due to its inclusion of the Extended Copy Protection software.

In 2004, the German project was at the center of a controversy, because it had started running a proofreading website based on the Distributed Proofreaders software, without mentioning that the resulting books would not be as free as those of the American project.

ECMA and ISO require that all patents essential to implementation be made available under " reasonable and non-discriminatory ( RAND ) terms ", but interpretation of this has led to much controversy, particularly in the case of Mono.

At about the same time, Frédéric Sauvage and John Ericsson applied for patents on vaguely similar, although less efficient shortened-screw propellers, leading to an apparently permanent controversy as to who the official inventor is among those three men.

Pei-Yuan Wei was at the center of a controversy over patents relating to embedded objects in a web browser, which revolves around whether his browser, ViolaWWW, had the capability to launch embedded objects, prior to the date a patent was filed by Michael David Doyle of Eolas, and the University of California.

There was also controversy over the evergreening of pharmaceutical drug patents and access to essential medicines under the U. S .- Australia Free Trade Agreement.

There was some controversy surrounding the DualDisc format, as Dieter Dierks, the inventor of the DVDplus specification, claimed that DualDisc technology is in violation of his European patents.

This is leading to a need to review licensing, patents and copyright, and to controversy in these areas, as well as new approaches like Creative Commons and the GPL.