Sentence examples for controversial undertaking from inspiring English sources

From the start, it was a controversial undertaking.

On its home ground the orchestra was, and remains, a controversial undertaking.

What would Iraq be like now if America had approached its perilous, monumentally controversial undertaking with humility, honesty and courage?

The agency must produce draft standards for existing plants, a vastly more complex and controversial undertaking, by next June.

It was a controversial undertaking, a $27.7 million gamble in a town better known for its boarded-up shops than its creative community.

Mental illness carrying the stigma that it does, and the brain being as little-understood as it is, revising the DSM is always a controversial undertaking.

The EU has drawn up a "concept of operations" for the deployment of military forces in Libya, but needs UN approval for what would be the riskiest and most controversial mission undertaken by Brussels.

Mr. Helgerson's office has investigated some of the most controversial programs undertaken by the agency since the Sept. 11 attacks, including its efforts to detain and interrogate leading terrorism suspects and its program of "extraordinary rendition": the practice of capturing suspects and delivering them to authorities in other nations.

One of the most controversial stories undertaken by the Los Angeles Times under Carroll's direct supervision accused Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the eve of his election as California governor, of being a serial groper of women.

Anger runs high and this will be a controversial and delicate undertaking.

The United States might have been -- and in the future might be -- more reluctant to undertake controversial actions were it unable to count on its critics falling into line after the fact.