Sentence examples for controversial movement from inspiring English sources

A recent paper, available as a.pdf on the Experimental Philosophy blog, summarizes what this controversial movement has been up to.

But now there is a controversial movement afoot to allow people to carry their handguns openly, as the cowboys used to do.

These two schools of thought, destined to develop into an almost worldwide and controversial movement, were built on the empiricism of Hume, on the positivism of Comte, and on the philosophy of science of Mach.

Indeed, the authors point out, the ideology of wellness shares with the controversial movement in psychology called "positive thinking" the twin assumptions that: a) you can be whatever you want to be; and therefore b) if anything bad happens to you, it's no one's fault but your own.

But when the 86-year-old Peruvian arrives in Rome this week as a key speaker at a Vatican event, he will be welcomed as a guest, in a striking show of how Pope Francis – the first Latin American pontiff – has brought tenets of this sometimes controversial movement to the fore of his church, particularly in his pronouncements against the blight of poverty and the dangers of capitalism.

New Mathematics was a relatively recent, and particularly controversial, movement in education that attempted to foreground the "important operations" of mathematics, at the expense of procedural mastery (Adler, 1972).

Perhaps one of the most controversial movements of the Modernist era was Futurism, which, at a cursory glance, likened humans to machines and vice versa in order to embrace change, speed, and innovation in society while discarding artistic and cultural forms and traditions of the past.

Islamic movements, like the controversial Gülen Movement, have mobilized mainly through their networks in the education by opening hundreds of private schools, dorms, and study centers (dersane) with the pretext of quality education for the poor.

Turkish schools and universities, some linked to the controversial Gulen movement, now educate several thousand pupils in Muslim regions.

Today, with a $1.5 billion endowment, it largely sustains the controversial modern movement to reconcile science and religion.

(RNS) After winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for his expose of al-Qaida, journalist Lawrence Wright turned his eye toward another secretive and controversial religious movement.