Sentence examples for controversial proposed from inspiring English sources

The measure has become the most controversial proposed change to state hunting regulations in years.

Judge Byron used a hearing on the fairness of a particularly controversial proposed settlement today to defend the court, in sometimes angry terms, against what he called "attacks on the court in Madison County".

Its chief executive, Jo Bragg, said it was "gravely concerning that, on the most controversial proposed coalmine in Australia, the ALP government has now moved amendments so there will be no public submissions or appeals relating to groundwater".

One of Schwarzman's most controversial proposed gifts was to Yale, his alma mater, which, during the late nineties, agreed to name the freshman dining commons after Schwarzman in return for $17 million.

For San Francisco's controversial proposed sit/lie law, the inciting incident happened on a Wednesday night in early December in the Haight — an act of violence so brutal it inspired a grass-roots movement.

Kaoru Yosano, the state minister for economic and fiscal policy and a supporter of a controversial proposed raise in the consumption tax, is reported to have confirmed plans to run.

The most controversial provision proposed to replace across-the-board pay increases with a system of merit pay.

Lost to Britain in the 1700s, the wolf is the most controversial species proposed for reintroduction given its potential to kill livestock.

A new and controversial paradigm proposed by certain evolutionary biologists like Joan Roughgarden is grounded in the observation that most sexual acts among nonhuman animals do not serve a procreative function.

The House of Representatives recently approved a bill to create an independent committee to conduct cost-benefit analyses of some highly controversial regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, ignoring the fact that the agency already does its own analyses.

A controversial theory proposed in 2001 by two academics, Steven Levitt (of "Freakonomics" fame) and John Donohue, which attributed half the previous decade's drop in crime to the legalisation of abortion in the 1970s, still has fans.