Sentence examples for be controversial at the from inspiring English sources

Next week, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, will introduce legislation — certain to be controversial at the Pentagon — that would modify the current system by giving military prosecutors rather than commanders the power to decide which cases to try.

Both moves were controversial at the time.

The sale was controversial at the time.

The National Seashore was controversial at the time; land profiteers fought it.

This practice of quoting documents to support historians' claims, universal today, was controversial at the time.

It was controversial at the time; people thought that we'd sold out.

The decision was controversial at the time, with a former RGU principal handing back his own honorary doctorate in protest.

That decision was controversial at the time with defence chiefs warning it could leave the country dangerously exposed.

Yet DeSalvo's guilt was controversial at the time and remained so in the decades after his death.

The timing of interest-rate changes is controversial at the best of times, and more so during an election year.

Fouchier's work was controversial at the time of publication but he is bullish about its benefits.