Sentence examples for controversies settled from inspiring English sources

This pushback can and should include the possibility of reforming the way the court does business: Term limits and supermajority requirements, for instance, are both plausible responses to the weirdness of having our great controversies settled by the timing of an aging justice's final illness, or the idiosyncracies of Anthony Kennedy.

Popes should not be declared saints until at least a few hundred years have been allowed to elapse to let contemporary controversies settle into the dust of history.

Labour recognises that it badly needs the debate controversy settled, and accuses Cameron of prolonging the dispute in an attempt to promote the Greens at Miliband's expense.

F.D.R., anxious to have the controversy settled, went along, even though the changes paved the way for the eventual deficits he had feared.

"I think it makes a big difference to have the controversy settled and the athletes know who the medalists are very quickly," said David W. Rivkin, an American lawyer who is on the arbitration panel.

Controversy settled by record stating a man had been arrested for stealing cabbages and had been asked if he filched them from the garden of Peter Jansen, living in "T" Maagde Paatje.

Much of the discussion was occupied with disciplinary or quasi-political decisions relating to the Investiture Controversy settled the previous year by the Concordat of Worms; simony was condemned, laymen were prohibited from disposing of church property, clerics in major orders were forbidden to marry, and uncanonical consecration of bishops was forbidden.

The Dutch were outraged at the idea that the Americans were collecting electronic surveillance on them, but once it turned out that their own security services were responsible, the controversy settled into an argument between the government and the opposition, leaving the deeper issues of the electronic-surveillance state behind.

Though some heritage buffs complained, many residents were relieved to have the controversy settled.

Still, even before the controversy settled, the foundation managed to grow and opened up two new learning centers in Washington, D.C. at the end of 2010.

But when the smoke and controversy settled, much of which is documented in Bill Carter's book, The Late Shift, it was Leno hosting The Tonight Show, while Letterman landed at CBS directly competing with the show he had assumed he would inevitably be hosting.