Sentence examples for controversial men from inspiring English sources

MIKE STARK is one of the most controversial men in the world of political blogging.

By the time he was in his mid-twenties, Smith had become one of the most controversial men in America.

Mr. Chubais, one of Russia's most controversial men, was ambushed in his armored BMW outside Moscow last month and survived both a roadside bomb and gunfire.

For Glen, all the fighting about statues of controversial men drove home what was missing from the city's places of honor, an omission she called a "low-level burn" that bothered her for years.

He returned to the Democrats last week after being lured back with the title of majority leader, but he remains one of the most controversial men in the capital.

Lawrence Wright, in a long piece on Mormonism for The New Yorker in 2002 — which includes some striking conversations with Romney about his time as a missionary and his polygamous great-grandparents — notes that by the time Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was in his twenties he "had become one of the most controversial men in America….

"He is a controversial man, that is all.

As the former head of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret police in Chile, General Contreras is also a controversial man.

"He's a very controversial man -- even in death," Joseph Bideri, the spokesman for the Rwandan government, said.

It was an astounding turn of events for a man who was arguably the most powerful — and controversial — man in the Confederate cabinet.

Since his hanging on Dec. 2, 1859, all manner of writing, art and memorial were employed to understand this intriguing and controversial man.