Sentence examples for controversial accomplishments from inspiring English sources
The great, controversial accomplishments at those Games were heralded by an odd silence in the arenas.
Less than a year after becoming solicitor general, Mr. Verrilli will go before the Supreme Court for three days next week to defend the Obama administration's health care overhaul law, one of the president's signature and most controversial accomplishments.
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Will he find a way to ram his health care bill through Congress quickly in the wake of the Massachusetts loss, so that his party can run on a major if controversial accomplishment?
His role in planning, initially constructing, and dedicating (April 21 , 1960 Brasília, a new federal capital 580 miles (930 km) northwest of Rio de Janeiro, was perhaps his most outstanding and controversial accomplishment.
Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.
In that sense, it is not surprising that her proudest accomplishment in Congress is a controversial law requiring employers to give up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to workers with family health care emergencies.
Mr. Mortier's greatest accomplishment -- beyond all the controversial opera productions, the still-starry casts and concerts, and the remarkable regeneration of the festival's theatrical program -- may have been to bring Salzburg back to itself.
Tilden's stellar accomplishments were often overshadowed by his controversial personal life.
Given the city's controversial history and politics, that is quite an accomplishment.
Murray and his publisher, HarperCollins, are surely hoping that "Human Accomplishment" might turn out to be equally controversial, although the argument of the new book, which Murray originally wanted to call "Truth and Beauty," is somewhat less incendiary.
