The phrase "advance controversial" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The proposal to change the policy is considered advance controversial among the committee members."
Alternatives: "highly debated" or "contentious issue".
Tempered Radicals (HBS Press, 2001) examines processes by which people advance controversial changes from within organizations and leadership practices that foster grass-roots activism.
JERUSALEM — On the eve of a White House meeting between President Obama and President Shimon Peres of Israel, officials here took steps on Monday to advance controversial new housing in the West Bank and a disputed area of Jerusalem.
On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy.
Academia reserves an especially withering contempt for professors who use their intellectual authority to advance controversial positions outside their area of expertise, from Linus Pauling's speculations on vitamin C to Niall Ferguson's opinions on US economic policy.
But in fact, there is no shortage of contemporary writers all too willing to advance controversial opinions on big subjects, whether it is Nicholson Baker offering a pacifist reinterpretation of World War II in his new book "Human Smoke" or Martin Amis speculating about the libidinal hang-ups of radical Islamists in his current essay collection, "The Second Plane".
B1 WEEKEND E1-32; E33-42 ESCAPES F1-18 OBITUA25ES A25 Thor Heyerdahl The Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer who advanced controversial theories of ancient seafaring migrations was 87.
He has attacked his enemies, demanded the resignation of journalists who he says peddled "fake news", and advanced controversial policies on health and immigration.
This is not the first time that Israeli and Palestinian leaders have advanced controversial — to put it mildly — views of the Holocaust.
Mr. Kutler's critics include Mr. Klingman and Ms. Hoff, as well as the authors Len Colodny and Russ Baker, whose books about Watergate have advanced controversial conspiracy theories involving Mr. Dean.
Although we don't know whether any of those companies were actually recruited or joined ALEC, the documents do remind the public of APSCU's partnership with the group that advanced controversial gun and voting laws just as it opens a two-day event in Washington this morning, called "Inaugural State of the Workforce Symposium: From Education to Employment".
In 1974 Hancock founded the Westralian Secession Movement and the newspaper National Miner to advance his controversial ideas, which included the use of nuclear explosions to excavate mines and harbours and the introduction of sterilizing drugs to the drinking water of half-caste Aborigines.
