Sentence examples for a tempest over from inspiring English sources

The deal is intended to quell a tempest over Mr. Milk's stomping grounds.

— Jeff Gordinier Grub Street: A tempest over a "stolen" egg recipe illustrates an important question that has never been resolved in the food world: Who owns a recipe?

James Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine who is a consultant to other state attorneys general, called the furor over the Lockyer letter "a tempest over nothing".

"A Tempest Over Photo of Shackled Boy" (Workplace section, Feb. 21) highlighted a critical fact of child protection: In order to keep children safe, we rely on people to report their honest suspicions of child maltreatment to the proper authorities.

"Student Papers and Their Parents" [Opinion, March 12] reported how influential parents had conspired with the local press and Great Neck school board to quell a tempest over numerous inappropriate uses of the school newspaper.

There is still a tempest over money at Texas, where faculty are none too pleased at the football coach Mack Brown's new $5 million annual salary while the university is strained by budget cuts.

A leading Southern Baptist theologian spoke out Monday on the question of Mormons, Christianity and elections, clearly trying to soften the harsh message of Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor who created a political tempest over the weekend.

This has created a tempest in America over the the past week or two.

A16 Atlantans Split on Airport Name A tempest is brewing in Atlanta over a proposal to rename the city airport, the world's busiest, for Maynard H. Jackson, the late three-term mayor who helped expand it.

It all seemed so ludicrous, Ms. Capra thought, a tempest sure to blow over.

In 1908, Percy Stowe directed a Tempest running a little over ten minutes, which is now a part of the British Film Institute's compilation Silent Shakespeare.