Religious controversies, class divisions, the ethics of conquest, and labour conditions were likewise touched on.
A statement on the New York Road Runner's club website read: "while holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division".
And nowhere was that controversy and division more evident than in the New York tabloids: The Daily News (the print edition, for a few days in a pixellated format because their office and printer had lost power) wrote that Staten Island Councilman James S. Oddo, who represents one of the worst hit areas in the city, wrote on his Facebook page that holding the race would be "idiotic".
While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division.
WASHINGTON -- Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) pulled back his support for a "religious freedom" bill Wednesday, citing the controversy and division it has created not only within his state, but also within his own family.
But for all the political controversy surrounding his division's decision to sue, there is also an important economic issue at stake — one that Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and nine other Democratic senators raised in an open letter to the Justice Department in June.
The bank is facing controversy over the division which handles companies in distress – known as the global restructuring group – and this week two of its most senior executives were accused by MPs of being "wilfully obtuse" when giving evidence to the Treasury select committee.
As a result of the Ketek controversy, the FDA division that handles antibiotics "is one of, if not the most, difficult, environments to work in at the agency right now," according to Patrick Ronan, a former FDA chief of staff who now consults for health care companies.
The 8th and early 9th centuries were also dominated by controversy and religious division over Iconoclasm, which was the main political issue in the Empire for over a century.
There has been controversy regarding the division of PCV into two subtypes.
