Sentence examples for controversial licence from inspiring English sources

From tomorrow, the World Service will be singing a different tune when the BBC takes on responsibility for funding the global broadcaster, which was previously bankrolled by the Foreign Office – a switch born out of the controversial licence fee settlement in 2010 when it was handed a number of new financial burdens including the World Service.

So it was a surprise after all these promises to wake up on June 2 and discover that the government had issued orders to block around 300 news websites that did not apply for the controversial licence in abidance by the Press and Publications Law.

The government was forced to publish the letter outlining details of the controversial shotgun licence fee deal with the BBC on Thursday in a move set to fuel concerns that the corporation may face further cuts in its funding.

Parliament opposes the European Commission's proposal to renew the controversial herbicide licence for 10 years.

A draft resolution to be put to the vote on Tuesday opposes the European Commission's proposal to renew the controversial herbicide licence for 10 years, as requested by some member states.

In one controversial piece of dramatic licence, the programme shows a young Cameron with paraphernalia for smoking cannabis in his school desk.

The book is topped and tailed with imagined scenes around Cobain's suicide, in the greenhouse of his Seattle home, aged 27 – a controversial piece of artistic licence which drew death threats from still-grieving fans.

This gives Galliano, now at the helm of Maison Margiela, a licence to be controversial – all within the safe space of a design studio, of course.

Uber's future in London is again in doubt after black cab drivers were granted a judicial review of the decision to award a new licence to the controversial taxi firm.

Maybe the awkward silence about the lyrics is doing Beyoncé a disservice, in not allowing her to defend her own creative licence to release something controversial.

The board, which until today had consisted of 14 directors, half of them independent, had been embroiled in a bitter dispute about the controversial purchase of a copper mining licence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.