Sentence examples for controversial causes from inspiring English sources
This can lead them to pour money into controversial causes, as Zuckerberg has with education reform.
The traditional foundations take on controversial causes -- Ford's grants to women's anti-poverty and family-planning programs are profoundly subversive in much of the third world.
The Supreme Court has left open the possibility that secrecy may be warranted when there is hard proof of illegal harassment of supporters of controversial causes.
Far from carefully choosing a few business-friendly good causes, Lush has backed a plethora of controversial causes from Guantanamo prisoners, to hunt saboteurs and the anti-fracking campaign.
All this can sound soft and fuzzy but in America particularly, Unitarian Universalists are known for their history of vociferous support for controversial causes including immigrant rights, access to abortion, LGBT equality and environmental protection.
There is also a strategic benefit to telling voters about "taxpayer-funded abortion": it links the pro-life movement to less controversial causes, like fiscal discipline and general opposition to Obamacare.
In the decade she spent on Florida's death row, Wuornos became a controversial cause célèbre.
When Death Cab for Cutie hit the red carpet at this weekend's Grammy awards, they were flying the flag for a new and controversial cause.
Forty years on, and now a cross-bench peer, his name has become inextricably linked with the controversial cause of legalising people's right to be helped to die.
But Ms. Booth, 45, who until recently has deliberately avoided politics and who never speaks to reporters, has taken a leading role in what, for Britain, is a decidedly controversial cause: human rights law in an increasingly Europeanized England.
It stirred women's rights groups and activists, giving a high-profile face to their controversial cause: "How many more Jandyras?" and "We are all Jandyra" were the straplines on the protest posters in Copacabana last September.
