Sentence examples for as controversial as a from inspiring English sources

ON the face of it Soave would seem to be about as controversial as a carrot.

Anyone who has heard or seen Common perform understands that this particular artist is about as controversial as a bar of soap.

Indeed, among neuroscientists, the new "comprehensive atlas" of the cerebral cortex is almost as controversial as a historical atlas of the Middle East.

"It was greeted as being as controversial as a Lars von Trier movie or something," she laughs down the line from Canada, 10 months on.

The fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night was billed as a trilogy for the ages but it ended in a scandal as controversial as a backwoods election.

Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, the owner of British Airways, said Britain's political class lacks the character required to push through a policy as controversial as a third Heathrow runway.

The DSEI is as controversial as an arms fair should be.

In an ever more secular-minded Denmark, such views uttered by your average Dane would be about as controversial as confessing a love of raw herrings.

In a ruling that is sure to be as controversial as Chief Justice Roberts' healthcare decision, a British judge overseeing a patent case between Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 found that shoppers would never confuse the two tablets because -- and these are the judge's words here -- Samsung tablets "are not as cool".

Yet few recent acts by Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, have been quite as controversial as his decision to accept an invitation to speak before Congress on March 3rd.

That role can sometimes become as controversial as forcing polluters to pay for a cleanup or, as in the case of the Gowanus, interfering with a city's ambitious economic development plans.