Sentence examples for controversial sectors from inspiring English sources

Others will invest in companies in the more controversial sectors such as oil and pharmaceuticals, but say that they aim to seek out those doing good things – for example, something positive to improve the environment.

"The decision to exclude these areas results from an analysis examining controversial sectors against three criteria: Comic Relief's vision of a just world, free from poverty; its grant-making programme; and public opinion," the charity said.

However, after mounting criticism Cahill admitted earlier this month that the charity would look to start a review and that its investments in companies in controversial sectors were "a small percentage, no more than 5% of our funds in any of those particular areas".

It is the second business to spin out of Intellectual Ventures, which operates in a controversial sector in Silicon Valley.

Complaints to the financial ombudsman about payday loans have almost tripled in a year, despite tougher regulation of the controversial sector, figures show.

Controversial public sector outsourcing firms such as Serco and G4S face being stripped of their lucrative Government contracts if Labour wins next general election.

The Export-Import Bank, India's premier export finance institution, gave the Ethiopian government a $640m£412m2m) line of credit to develop the controversial sugar sector in lower Omo.

The controversial private-sector arm of the British government aid programme routed nearly half of its investments in developing countries last year through offshore tax havens, the Guardian can reveal, despite the prime minister's pledges to clamp down on financial secrecy and help poor countries boost their tax revenues.

The British government has been accused of undermining its own commitment to transparency on aid spending after it emerged that it plans a dramatic increase in the funding it channels through the controversial private sector arm of the UK's aid programme.

However, Patel was accused of double standards at an appearance before the Commons international development committee on Monday when she ruled out subjecting CDC, the controversial private sector arm of the UK's aid programme, to the same set of demands on transparency and issues around executive pay.

And although controversial, private sector involvement within the NHS is not new.