Sentence examples for controversies exploded from inspiring English sources

The dust had barely settled from a blow-up over two Oscars gags directed at Asians when two serious whitewashing controversies exploded: a trailer for superhero flick "Dr. Strange" featuring Tilda Swinton as a character originally portrayed as an Asian man, and a teaser photo from the manga adaptation "Ghost in the Shell" featuring Scarlett Johansson playing lead Motoko Kusanagi in a black wig. .

Well before controversy exploded around Paula Deen, she had decided to title her forthcoming cookbook "New Testament".

As the controversy exploded last week, HarperOne moved up to March 15 the publication date of Mr. Bell's book, "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived".

So it is that in Houston, with one of the nation's busiest national cemeteries, controversy exploded when the new cemetery director began enforcing a little-noticed 2007 policy that prohibits volunteer honor guards from reading recitations — including religious ones — in their funeral rituals, unless families specifically request them.

The controversy exploded again in the 1990s when the Harvard psychology professor Richard Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray published their book The Bell Curve, which stated that US blacks had an average IQ of 85 against 103 for whites and that, once this was taken into account, many racial differences in educational attainment and career achievement disappeared.

Speaking at the Vaal University of Technology a few weeks before the Rhodes statue controversy exploded, Prof Buhlungu expressed the mounting frustrations across a number of universities at employment practices that count against black South Africans.

She will become at least the sixth executive to leave the organization, either at headquarters or at the affiliate level, since the Planned Parenthood controversy exploded four months ago.

Months of controversy exploded into public view again when Scott, in an interview on NewsOne Radio with Roland Martin, said it is incumbent on civil rights groups to convince Obama to pull down Georgia district court nominees Michael Boggs and Mark Cohen, and said the president will thank them for it later.

It was just one in a remarkable series of events that culminated with a printed-out portion of the review being slipped out of the custody of the CIA to the US Capitol, where it now resides in a safe in a second-floor Senate building, as an expanding controversy explodes around it.

A few days before its premiere, the Oscars So White controversy again exploded, as no actors of colour were nominated for the second year running.

Among students, many of whom were not enrolled when the controversy first exploded, there is less familiarity with the nuances of the case but strong feelings nonetheless.