Sentence examples for controversial the notion from inspiring English sources

While Buchanan's characterization of this division is controversial, the notion of a "divided America" is not.

While a role for HSV1 in AD remains controversial, the notion is especially intriguing since HSV1 infection offers a potentially treatable target.

More controversial is the notion of function involved here.

Still more controversial is the notion of normative necessity.

This deflationary notion of agency is weaker and less controversial than the notion of agency that Peter Godfrey-Smith (2009) has challenged through his critique of rationalizing and optimizing approaches to explanation within evolutionary biology, approaches exemplified by Dawkins' (1976 [1989]) classic appeal to selfish genes.

Even more controversial is the notion that herbal or traditional medicine as well as spiritual treatment could cure HIV/AIDS.

If the suggestion is that meaning statements have a prescriptive content it would provide another very direct argument in support of ME normativity, one that does not have to proceed via the controversial claim that the notion of semantic correctness is an essentially normative notion.

There would also be the controversial notion that the chef not be shackled to the stove.

But Sarris, inspired by what Francois Truffaut had called the "politique des auteurs," introduced to America the controversial notion that, despite the collaborative nature of filmmaking, some directors are the "authors" of their movies and that the best directors, by imbuing a movie with their personal vision, make the best films.

He proposed cuts in domestic spending and even endorsed the controversial notion of increasing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67.

In March, on the eve of sequestration becoming law, I wrote that "President Obama, perhaps wrongly", agreed to meet Republicans halfway during the debt limit showdown in the spring of 2011, by proposing cuts "in domestic spending and even endorsed the controversial notion of increasing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67".