Sentence examples for controversial devices from inspiring English sources

Public opinion will also play a role, especially in the use of controversial devices like police drones.

A review by the Cochrane Collaboration, the medical research group, says the controversial devices help people who want to stop smoking.

"Stingrays," controversial devices that collect massive amounts of metadata from large numbers of phones in a given area.

The most controversial devices are the ion scanners now being used at several test sites out of the Golden State's vast empire of 34 prisons.

The controversial devices mimic cellphone towers, pinging nearby phones and allowing police to locate phones within a vicinity and obtain their data, and are used by both the federal government and more than 50 police departments across the country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The controversial devices — which transform semi-automatic assault rifles into rapid-fire machine guns — were thrust into the national spotlight when the Las Vegas shooter used them to unleash a deadly hail of gunfire on an outdoor music festival from his hotel room nearly two months ago.

In 2006, he blamed a clerical mix-up for his failing to disclose that he and his co-authors had financial ties to Cyberonics, the maker of a controversial device that they reviewed favorably in a journal he edited.

Some researchers call the test of the controversial device, described online today in Science, the fairest comparison yet.

Thousands of people appear to have been helped to quit smoking by using e-cigarettes, according to new study hailed by campaigners as a sign that the controversial device is helping to improve people's health.

The F.D.A. review was recommended by the Government Accountability Office in 2009 as part of an examination of the regulatory status of electroshock and about 20 other less controversial medical devices, like pacemaker electrodes and implanted blood access devices for hemodialysis.

And all told by resurrecting one of theater's most controversial storytelling devices, the minstrel show.