Sentence examples for controversial venture from inspiring English sources

In another controversial venture, Peace Boat leads yearly tours of Japanese through North Korea, a nation that ranks high on lists of human rights abusers.

Unquestionably, Atari's boldest and most controversial venture under Bonnell was Enter the Matrix, the video-game version of the three-volume sci-fi juggernaut directed by the brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski.

That statement raised the obvious question of whether she regretted the most controversial venture of her 10-month tour as publisher of The Los Angeles Times: the decision to share revenue from a special issue of the Sunday magazine with the owners of the city's new convention hall, the Staples Center, which was the subject of the issue.

Very unattractive qualities for a company that is listed in the U.S. Alibaba has been in the media business a while with Alibaba Pictures, a sports group, an investment in Chinese media firm CBN, a pending deal to buy Youku Tudou — China's largest video streaming site — and a Netflix-like streaming service, but this is its most controversial venture yet.

Li is a somewhat controversial venture capitalist – he was one of (or the) architect behind the extraordinary undoing of a $17 million round of financing for BitTorrent last year – we questioned whether Li violated his fiduciary duty to the company in closing that deal at the time.

Lost in the ear-splitting uproar over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's controversial venture into the health care debate, is a bigger, though less subtle story.

It would also be more tolerant of higher-risk, higher-reward and more controversial ventures.

In less controversial ventures, Peace Boat's cruises in the Pacific have cast spotlights on the impact of mining and logging projects by Japanese companies and of past open-air nuclear tests by France.

Rembrandt, though not particularly controversial, ventured beyond the baroque style that was dominant in Europe at the time while Degas' aversion to the Impressionist label left him frequently at odds with a group that was already on the periphery.

With HMRC having clamped down on so many of the Channel Islands' money-making schemes, a controversial new venture has been dreamed up in Guernsey which its creators hope will make the rich even richer.

Even Nauru's most controversial commercial venture could be in trouble, with doubts over the supply of electricity to a camp holding 1,200 boat people seeking asylum in Australia.Nauru is fighting a legal battle over access to bank accounts in Australia.