Sentence examples for controversial activity from inspiring English sources

In the larger, unfolding story of the independent nation, writing poetry in English was a minor, marginal, and occasionally controversial activity.

The implications of the report stretch around the whole world, with much of the most controversial activity taking place off US soil.

The most controversial activity of the TVA is the production and sale of electric power, which has been resisted by privately owned power companies.

They'd looked into the question of Stein's controversial activity, she told me, and they'd found no basis for the charge of anti-Semitism (though this was not exactly the question under consideration).

But today is a bit different, as it is only the second time that Uber suspended a controversial activity without a court order — the first time was UberX in Portland.

Direct evidence for this controversial activity [2 4] came from the crystal structure of the N-terminal domain of the saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp90 in complex with ADP, which identified that the essential residues for ATP catalysis were conserved [5].

And we extend this agnostic attitude to our entire service — porn, yes, but also other potentially controversial activities, ranging from political activism and protest organizing, to circumvention of censorship regimes, through to extreme cases like smuggled videos of human rights abuses in totalitarian societies.

But the UK Tar Sands Network said the research money was an attempt by Shell to "buy legitimacy for its controversial activities globally".

The group however claimed it refrained from "political or controversial activities and stands for democracy and freedom" and that it promoted "social and religious integration".

Legal experts said there were "risks" that the Channel 4 film, on the controversial activities of Stinson Hunter, an unemployed former drug addict who served a long jail sentence for arson, acknowledged the "risks" that it might encourage copycat vigilantism.

Defending the controversial activities of Charlie Hebdo, which has published cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed on several different occasions, he attacked the educated upper classes for accusing the magazine of going too far.