There have been five St. Émilion classifications since 1955; each has produced controversies among vineyard owners.
At first theological controversies among Muslims were closely tied to political events, the principal issue being the legitimacy of the rule of the Umayyad house, which seized power after the death of the fourth caliph, ʿAlī.
Like many public works, the $335 million Capitol Visitor Center, to be built over the next three years, comes with controversies, among them alarm over the destruction or relocation of dozens of trees and worry about the disruption caused by so big a project.
"Dear Friends, I am sorry to inform you that having considered the extent to which my planned appearance at the Locarno festival provokes tensions and controversies among those opposed to my visit, even as I respect their opinions, it is with a heavy heart that I must cancel my visit," he said.
In the popular imagination, that struggle was defined by the dramatic face-off between Thomas and his former colleague Anita Hill, but Senate Democrats still fume about an earlier part of those hearings — when the nominee refused to reveal his views on many legal and constitutional controversies, among them Roe v. Wade.
The exhaustive investigations into the nature and interaction of dharmas extended into the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, and ontology, and generated doctrinal controversies among different Buddhist schools.
