Sentence examples for constituted controversial from inspiring English sources

Facebook initially told Agustsdottir that the images did not "violate Facebook's community standards on hate speech" – which ostensibly includes attacks on a person's gender – and instead constituted "controversial humour".

The Crusades constitute a controversial chapter in the history of Christianity, and their excesses have been the subject of centuries of historiography.

The products studied here are clothing textiles treated with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), since they constitute a controversial application.

Despite the clear position of the scientific community – it considers evolutionary theory one of the most important achievements in modern biology – there are several reasons why evolutionary theory and its teaching in schools constitute a controversial issue in many countries (e.g., evolutionary theory is believed to contradict religious beliefs).

In particular, the position of the genera Budorcas and Ovibos has been controversial, having at times constituted the tribe Ovibovini, and at others been separated and located in different tribes.

In instances where it was controversial or unclear whether an applicant constituted a "state", it was the practice of the secretary general to follow or seek the General Assembly's directives on the matter, the statement added.

-- A controversial decision to seat the two delegations, as currently constituted, would be appealed by the Obama campaign to the Democratic National Convention's Credentials Committee.

Brown acknowledges that exactly what constitutes tool use is controversial.

Here it is important to distinguish the plausible view that institutions are not reducible to the individual human persons who constitute them from the controversial view that institutions are themselves agents possessed of minds and a capacity to reason.

The fall of the popular, controversial Bo constitutes one of the largest scandals China's secretive political elite has faced in decades.

What constitutes a compound is controversial, with some authors equating it to a "word" in English, and others not willing to limit it to the English concept of a word.