Sentence examples for a controversial stance from inspiring English sources

It is a controversial stance.

We are back". It is a controversial stance.

That Mrs. Whitman would take such a controversial stance comes as no surprise to people who know her record as governor in New Jersey, where there is some debate over the depth of her commitment to the environment.

When one of those candidates takes a controversial stance against gay marriage and news of the company's connection to him is exposed, customers and employees stage protests and ask the company to reconsider its policy on campaign contributions.

It is disconcerting: a collection of watercolours accompanied by snatches of verse, evidence some say that Mr Grass really has lost his taste for story-telling.Peter Handke is another established writer whose reputation has suffered in recent years, though in this case more from a decision to take a controversial stance on the war in former Yugoslavia.

Critics have pointed out that as a House member in 2005, Pence argued that the government should provide aid to Hurricane Katrina victims only if the budget was cut in other areas, a controversial stance that has put him and some Texas Republicans in an awkward position this week.

(A surprisingly controversial stance, in the Bay Area where I live).

I mean, Sheryl knew what she was getting herself into when she wrote this, and she knew that she was taking a somewhat controversial stance.

It is the ultimate source of his unyielding criticism of the rabbinic establishment in Israel, and what—"in the face of so much pressure to be sensible, to be realistic, not to let the side down" as Berlin (1983, 18) put it was seen at the time as a highly controversial stance regarding Israeli policy towards the territories captured during the Six Day war.

While Jefferson honored the past, she said, he "never shied away from breaking with tradition to adapt to a new world order" — or take an unpopular, controversial stance.

For now, all Trout can do is play well and take another page out of the Jeter playbook, by raising his national profile as a corporate spokesman, without taking any controversial stances on public issues.