Sentence examples for controversy first from inspiring English sources

He said Labour had taken comprehensive and decisive action after the controversy first erupted.

Mr. Koskinen would fill the opening created when the Obama administration dismissed the acting I.R.S. commissioner, Steven T. Miller, in May after the controversy first surfaced.

The controversy first surfaced in 2009, when Trafigura obtained a super injunction against journalists who had obtained internal documents discussing the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast.

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.

It brought to an end his protracted battle to clear his name of the cash-for-questions controversy first reported by the Guardian in 1994.

The controversy first broke loose on Oct. 28, 1977, when West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt delivered a speech to the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

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For good or ill, this is what lifts the competition out of golf's normally staid atmosphere and into the rough-and-tumble world of controversy, second-guessing and ill feelings.

Oh, how the rebel in me loves this controversy, second only to the human being in me that wants to prove the advice giver wrong!

Then the Yahoo! controversies: first everyone had an opinion about Marissa Mayer as a pregnant CEO, then everyone had another opinion about her revocation of work-from-home policies.

The controversy was first reported in The Amsterdam News.