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.

The restaurant to which the Sakellariadises took us on this night of controversy was the Asteria, on Asteria beach.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

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.

It was marked by controversy, anonymous midnight phone calls and veiled threats of violence.

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

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.

Lists of phenomena, from the contemplation of which " the savage " was led to believe in animism, have been given by Sir E. B. Tylor, Herbert Spencer, Andrew Lang, and others ; a controversy arose between the former as to the priority of their respective lists.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style.

The moon-and-stars logo was discontinued in 1985 as a result of the controversy

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 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.

Prior to the controversy surrounding Agent Orange, there was already a large body of scientific evidence linking 2, 4, 5-T to serious negative health effects and ecological damage.

Although his paper was widely cited, a random selection of 60 of these citations revealed that 29 of the papers were direct rebuttals or criticisms of Jensen's arguments, 8 cited the paper as an " example of controversy ," 8 used it as a background reference.

It was later selected, with some controversy, to be the primary weapon for the Canadian Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor, along with the new Astra fire-control system.

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

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

Before controversy erupted ( see below ) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was " FIRE!

While the winning run was allowed to stand on that occasion, the dispute raised O ' Day's awareness of the rule, and directly set up the Merkle controversy.

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

The controversy prompted one local politician to call for locals to boycott the performances, but this was largely ignored and the premiere was sold out.

The controversy raged on into the early years of the 19th century, with disputes as to whether the poems were based on Irish sources, on sources in English, on Gaelic fragments woven into his own composition as Johnson concluded, or largely on Scots Gaelic oral traditions and manuscripts as Macpherson claimed.

Regardless of the controversy regarding the preparations, however, once the assault began around 4 p. m., Longstreet pressed the assault by McLaws and Hood ( Pickett's division had not yet arrived ) competently against fierce Union resistance, but it was largely unsuccessful, with significant casualties.

It was occupied largely with the controversy about the teachings of Berengar of Tours.

The controversy surrounding this text in particular was largely due to the way Solzhenitsyn definitively and painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's.

This is largely because of a controversy regarding the opening of a casino on land that would be considered part of the Gabrielino / Tongva's homeland.

Spurgeon aroused controversy because of his critique of its theology, which was largely deistic.

Press reaction to the reunion was largely warm, but the re-designed website sparked controversy when Michael Anthony was removed from images of old album artwork.

As of April 30, 2008 the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue.

From 1831 to 1833, Mill was largely occupied in the defence of the East India Company, during the controversy attending the renewal of its charter, he being in virtue of his office the spokesman of the court of directors.

The term has become a subject of controversy, largely due to its use in discussing violent opposition to the US Government's War on Drugs.

Aside from the name controversy, Moreno's first few seasons as owner of the Angels have been largely successful.

The session was largely taken up with problems in Ireland, economic depression and the bullion controversy in England ( a Bill was passed to make bank notes legal tender ), and military operations in the Peninsula.

This school, largely attended by the Christian youth of Persia, and closely watched by Rabbula, the friend of Cyril of Alexandria, on account of its Nestorian tendencies, reached its highest development under Bishop Ibas, famous through the controversy of the Three Chapters, was temporarily closed in 457, and finally in 489, by command of Emperor Zeno and Bishop Cyrus, when the teachers and students of the School of Edessa repaired to Nisibis and became the founders and chief writers of the Nestorian Church in Persia.

The commonly given measurement of PMPO ( peak music power out ) is largely meaningless and often used in marketing literature ; in the late 1960s there was much controversy over this point and the US Government ( FTA ) required that RMS figures be quoted for all high fidelity equipment.

Khan's rule has engendered some controversy, though Herat has remained largely free of the violence that has plagued some other regions of post-Taliban Afghanistan.

This controversy was largely stoked by Stanford University President David Starr Jordan.

Such rates being highest in the industrialized world has led to the major controversy that hysterectomies are being largely performed for unwarranted and unnecessary reasons.

The Springboks kicked off their 2011 test season with controversy, with 21 high-profile players omitted from the away leg of the 2011 Tri Nations, leaving only captain John Smit and Morné Steyn as regular members of the starting XV amongst a largely second-string side.

When the Conservative government of John Diefenbaker fell in 1963, largely due to the BOMARC controversy, Grant wrote Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism, a book about the nature of traditional Canadian nationhood and independence that would become a lodestar of Red Toryism.

It sparked controversy among German historians, because Fest, a political conservative, rejected the then-dominant left-wing view that the causes of Hitler's rise to power had been largely economic.

Knowles's margin of victory in this race was due largely to a collapsed campaign from Republican John Lindauer, controversy surrounding Lindauer and his misrepresentation of facts on campaign finance documents, and questions about Lindauer's state residency.

The proposal for the state was largely considered too ambitious to succeed in Congress, even disregarding the controversy over Mormon practices such as polygamy.

In spite of controversy whether the researchers had truly isolated the causative agent of PAP ( based largely on the unusual immunological response of patients with PAP ), in retrospect their evidence along with that of colleagues and competitors appears to have been quite conclusive.