Sentence examples similar to abortive controversy from inspiring English sources
The UUUC dissolved over controversy surrounding an abortive general strike in 1977, and the DUP operated independently until 1986, when it began cooperating with the UUP to oppose the Anglo-Irish Agreement of the previous year.
Some press reports have suggested that the public controversy over the abortive nomination to the Supreme Court of Harriet Miers, the White House counsel, helped Bernanke's chances, because it put pressure on the Administration to appoint a nonpartisan figure to the Fed.
The Nobel Prize-winning director of a neuroscience center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is stepping down in the wake of a controversy over the abortive hiring of a young female biologist in June.
The effort began again in the nineteen-seventies, with several abortive attempts at legislation and much controversy within the Smithsonian Institution, under whose aegis each national museum is administered.
A series of race-related controversies erupted in that first year, one concerning the administration's abortive attempt to restore tax-exempt status to private schools that discriminated on the basis of race.
- This fundamental controversy has now conclusively been solved through a number of studies, which examined abortive infection (Abi) systems in the bacterium Escherichia coli.
Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.
There have been abortive attempts so far.
