The phrase "a time when controversies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period characterized by disputes or disagreements on various topics.
Example: "The 1960s was a time when controversies surrounding civil rights and social change were at the forefront of American society."
Alternatives: "an era of disputes" or "a period of contention".
They're also "badges of self-determination at a time when controversies about abortion rights, date rape and sexual harassment" have made women "think hard about who controls their bodies".
As Mifflin writes in the introduction, "Tattoos appeal to contemporary women both as emblems of empowerment in an era of feminist gains and as badges of self-determination at a time when controversies about abortion rights, date rape, and sexual harassment have made them think hard about who controls their bodies — and why".
In unrelated developments, it emerges Mills was a non-executive director of Benetton's Formula One team at a time when controversy rages over the decision by his wife, Tessa Jowell, then a health minister, not to ban F1 tobacco advertising.
But her background posed political problems at a time when the controversy over the agency's treatment of detainees has reemerged.
At a time when doctrinal controversy is widespread across all Christian traditions, it is argued that the Church of England has an inheritance here in need of cherishing and sharing with the universal Church.
The media events began in 2010 and have generated a burst of good will for XTO at a time when the controversy over the hydraulic fracturing drilling method has been growing in Pennsylvania.
With its debates over campus codes forbidding "hate" speech, and the hiring of such faculty luminaries as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who brought queer theory to Durham, Duke became famous as the home campus of tenured zaniness (and the inspiration for Dinesh D'Souza's "Illiberal Education") at a time when the controversy over P.C. orthodoxy was all the rage.
But at a time when the controversy surrounding that program seemed to be slipping into history, the report raises a new challenge to the agency's long-standing contention that only three prisoners — all of them still in custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — were ever subjected to simulated drowning as an interrogation technique.
"Here is a rare opportunity for our court to do the right thing," Chief Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. of United States District Court wrote to his colleagues, "and take the lead nationally in a time when the Arthur Andersen/Enron/Catholic priest controversies are undermining public confidence in our institutions and causing a growing suspicion of things that are kept secret by public bodies".
It was a daring film at a time when Hollywood avoided racial controversy, about a girl who passes for white in the North but faces the bitter hatred of whites after returning to her grandmother's home in the Deep South.
This deal comes at a time when Uber is embroiled in controversies around its self-driving car technology as well as its workplace culture.
