Sentence examples for controversial state from inspiring English sources

In 2011, Governor Snyder invoked a controversial state law and placed Flint under emergency management.

You say that Airbus "achieved profit margins superior to those of its competitor; a feat that was quite independent of its controversial state aid".

One mandates that towns that incorporate the program into their local plans also abide by the controversial state plan; the other makes no mention of the document.

Under a controversial state statute that allows emergency managers broad powers over financially troubled cities, Mr. Snyder has 10 days to decide whether to approve such a deal with Detroit or call in an emergency manager.

Shortly after Sarkozy's election in 2007, Gaddafi was invited to Paris and pitched his Bedouin-style tent in an official French residence near the Élysée as part of a controversial state visit.

But the hunt for profit tells executives which way to steer: though the company runs television ads of squinting Eskimo hunters, declaring "I am Inupiaq," it also took the oil industry's side in a controversial state referendum over oil taxes.

A controversial, state-sponsored pro-fossil fuels Earth Day poster contest for children has triggered a heated and divisive debate about Utah's reliance on non-renewable energy resources.

While this move is not against the law, it is part of a controversial, state-level rezoning process that has been used to push large projects through before, such as Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, now home to the Barclays Center.

The sudden push to address HB2, one of the nation's most controversial state-level laws, might seem like a shift from last week, when GOP legislators called a surprise special session to limit the power of the new governor, and other incoming Democratic..

He later toned down his rhetoric and pinned the reason for his opposition to civil rights legislation on the less controversial states' rights.

Advocates of the controversial Arizona state law giving the police a greater role in immigration enforcement played up what they described as a failure to secure the border as a reason to pass the law.