Sentence examples for close the controversy from inspiring English sources

She said she handed her shares over to an intermediary to "close the controversy".

(They, alone, should open the marriage equality door and close the controversy!).

Fraser said Swire had got "a bit too close" to the controversy.

Srinivasan, the chief executive of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, is also the managing director of India Cements, who own the Super Kings franchise – and was drawn uncomfortably close to the controversy when his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested by Mumbai police late on Friday as part of their investigation.

The employees at a hunting news outlet expressed hesitation to talk publicly, and another organization close to the controversy would only provide someone to speak off the record.

After a period of solitary confinement, he will be content to step out of the shadows and finally start to become a fully fledged player for FC Barcelona - however close the next controversy might be.

This seems to us the most valid proof yet to come out of Germany and, as far as we are concerned, it closes the whole controversy.

The Concordat of Worms closed the Investiture Controversy in 1122, the "perpetual public peace" (Ewiger Landfriede) was proclaimed by the emperor Maximilian I there at the Diet of 1495, and Martin Luther appeared before the famous Diet of 1521 to defend his doctrines to the emperor Charles V. Worms became Protestant in 1525 and was the site of religious conferences in 1540 and 1557.

"We closed down after the controversy," Mr. Monteiro said.

The Bush administration's deputy defense secretary, Gordon R. England, said it was better for the country to close the prison because the controversy it caused was "disrupting our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan".

When Blake created a free digital filter designed to make any image look like it had been painted by Close, the project garnered some controversy after Close threatened Blake with legal action.