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.

* " Fusion controversy rekindled " BBC News, March 5, 2002

The controversy was rekindled when Elliott ’ s trilogy about the FDR years came out in the 1970s, even though Elliott again used a professional writer and many of the anecdotes were clearly drawn from secondary references.

Mirabelli initially vehemently denied talking about the incident to Thorne, and the comments by both individuals rekindled a controversy on a national level which had been dormant for years.

Of a high-strung and nervous temperament, Brewster was somewhat irritable in matters of controversy ; but he was repeatedly subjected to serious provocation.

Judah emerged somewhat later than Israel, probably during the 9th century BCE, but the subject is one of considerable controversy and there is no definite answer.

A somewhat obscure chain of events followed ( the so-called " Moechian controversy ," from the Greek moichos, " adulterer "), in which Theodore initiated a protest against the marriage from the Sakkudion Monastery, and appears to have demanded the excommunication, not only of the priest Joseph, but also of all who had received communion from him, which, as Joseph was a priest of the imperial church, included implicitly the emperor and his court.

Although some women who sing alto in a choir are contraltos, many would be more accurately called mezzo-sopranos ( a voice of somewhat higher range and different timbre ), and many male countertenors ( this latter term is a source of considerable controversy, some authorities preferring the usage of the term " male alto " for those countertenors who use a predominantly falsetto voice production ).

In 365, he published the Contra Arianos vel Auxentium Mediolanensem liber, in connection with the controversy ; and also ( but perhaps at a somewhat earlier date ) the Contra Constantium Augustum liber, in which he pronounced that lately deceased emperor to have been the Antichrist, a rebel against God, " a tyrant whose sole object had been to make a gift to the devil of that world for which Christ had suffered.

The exact nature and meaning of his title is thus somewhat of a controversy.

A further controversy came when the television interviewer, Jeremy Paxman, relentlessly asked him the same question 12 times in all, ( 14 if including two earlier inquiries that were worded somewhat differently ) during an edition of the Newsnight programme.

While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude toward the position.

However, Chapin's recording future became somewhat of a controversy between two powerful record companies headed by two very powerful men, Jac Holzman of Elektra Records and Clive Davis of Columbia.

At first he followed Friedrich Eduard Beneke's empiricism, and strongly opposed the subjectivistic tendency of the Kantian system, maintaining in particular the objectivity of space and time, which involved him in a somewhat violent controversy.

In Berlin, somewhat against his will, he was drawn into a controversy on the Apostles ' Creed, in which the partisan antagonisms within the Prussian Church had found expression.

The controversy is somewhat tempered by the fact that a majority of large corporations are being increasingly referred to by acronyms.

However, archaeologists have found no major building works at Jerusalem dating from this era ( except perhaps the Large Stone Structure, which is the subject of some controversy ), and some have suggested that Solomon's building programme was somewhat mythical – being based on the building programme of the later Omrides.

There has been some controversy on commersial use of the berry picking rights, since companies contract people to pick berries in the forests, which is legal but somewhat controversial.

It seems also to be the case that relatives were after the First World War ( and possibly after other subsequent wars ) in the United Kingdom and possibly also in France given the option, presumably on the basis that the issue was historically somewhat controversial, of not having the names of their military casualties included on war memorials, notwithstanding that this approach was arguably either in clear parallel with or in support of the form of the memorials erected in the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, these questions being at the time ( the First World War ) therefore reflected in political controversy.

Guillen is known for being somewhat eccentric and outspoken, which sometimes lands him in the middle of controversy.

On 2005's Believe they took their music in a somewhat darker direction, causing a certain amount of controversy amongst their fans.

Night Ranger's overall image tended to be somewhat cleaner than MTV contemporaries like Mötley Crüe or Ratt which helped the band flourish during a decade characterized by PMRC controversy.

The similarly joke lyrics, featuring much over-the-top innuendo ( the song is about Tobias sitting in an aeroplane headed for Brazil that is going to crash and him having sex in the toilet with the stewardess ) sparked some controversy, but most fans attribute the lyrical content to Sammet's somewhat surreal sense of humour.

The controversy is somewhat tempered since Stegner had received permission to use Foote's writings, implying as much in the book's acknowledgements page.

In the film, to minimize controversy, Alex is portrayed as somewhat older, around 17 or 18 ( McDowell himself was 28 when he portrayed Alex ).

Even Allen's name was a source of controversy: he had been known since his youth as " Dick " to family and friends, but for reasons which are still somewhat obscure, the media referred to him upon his arrival in Philadelphia as " Richie ", possibly a conflation with the longtime Phillies star Richie Ashburn.

A somewhat acrimonious controversy followed the publication of Cooper's report.

Though somewhat muted by the higher profile issues in the naming of David Emerson and Michael Fortier to the cabinet, the posting of O ' Connor to the position of Minister of National Defence by Prime Minister Harper was met with controversy.