Sentence examples for controversial involvement from inspiring English sources

At the heart of the matter lurks the controversial involvement of Hezbollah in Syria in defense of the Assad regime.

The same thing happened in Turkmenistan, where Firtash was paid in gas – the start of what would become a long and controversial involvement in the trade.

Nelson Piquet Jr is in line to make a surprise return to Formula One next season despite his controversial involvement in last year's rigged race at the inaugural Singapore grand prix.

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John Patterson We have A Touch of Zen to thank for Harvey Weinstein's interest in Asian cinema; it was after Quentin Tarantino screened King Hu's 1971 wuxia that the mogul began a controversial spending spree in the east that led to his current controversial involvement with Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer.

But it has also meant a splurge of investment in European clubs, from Atlético Madrid to Manchester City, and even a controversial involvement in the Portuguese second division (the Chinese sponsor of the league had asked that each of the top 10 sides have a Chinese player in their squad – the idea was later abandoned).

His work in Notting Hill, west London, in the 1960s and 70s helped to lay the foundations for the wider church's often-controversial involvement in Britain's inner cities. Spurred on by the socialist cleric Donald Soper, the Methodist church sent Denny and two other ministers, David Mason and Geoffrey Ainger, to work in Notting Hill, and thus create Methodism's first "team" ministry.

In the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, Team Darfur called attention to China's controversial economic involvement in Darfur and exerted pressure on the Chinese government by associating the Beijing Olympics with China's relationship with Darfur.

The downstream modulatory role of JNK in ROS-mediated cell death is controversial, and involvement of both caspase and PARP-1 pathways have been reported.

While the control of cardiac expression of LPL remains controversial, the involvement of the VLDL-receptor in trafficking implies a degree of control that is critically located at the capillary endothelium.

O'Connor's barrister remarked during the trial that the war in Iraq was the most controversial foreign affairs involvement of this country since Suez, but more than 50 years since Anthony Eden invaded Egypt, there are still documents which Whitehall refuses to release.