Sentence examples for controversial through from inspiring English sources

Majority rule does not really apply there, of course: getting anything controversial through the Senate, for example, requires 60 votes to break filibusters.

And the excruciating difficulty of getting anything controversial through the Senate forces lawmakers to sit down and take account of opposing views.

Controversial through all the years that she wrote newspaper opinion-page pieces and appeared on television talk shows, Ms. Kishline has again inflamed a debate over moderation versus abstinence by offering her own calamitous story as an example of denial in action.

It's become controversial through the years, as customers crowd the stores and trample one another for cheap electronics and consumer goods.

A priest molesting an altar boy or a religious fanatic blowing up a gallery and possibly killing someone is not the same as expressing something controversial through art.

Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.

But Ms. Lam proved to be controversial, pushing through a reading program that was later revoked.

It is a time-honored tactic for shepherding controversial policies through the Legislature.

Mr Clarke, who was education secretary until his promotion this week, is accustomed to piloting controversial legislation through Parliament.

The move was controversial, but through my prism as spokesman — Israel's image in world media — it was a disaster.

Labor has said it could get the budget back to surplus before the Coalition, which is facing difficulty getting several controversial measures through the Senate.