"Quite frankly, if it hadn't been for the controversy involved I probably would have left earlier," he said.
The controversy involved wireless phone licenses awarded at a price set in 2001 in a process that favored certain companies.
In recognition of the controversy involved in considering a veteran for its rookie award, Major League Soccer last weekend announced a new award — the Newcomer of the Year — intended for players like David Beckham, Luciano Emilio and Juan Pablo Ángel.
The continuing controversy involved leading universities in Europe, was considered by eight popes and by the Kangxi emperor, and led to repeated intervention by the offices of the Holy See.
He'd read one of Broderick's more polemical statements in the newspapers, and he wrote to say that he had no idea of the merits of the controversy involved but that he considered Broderick's statement to be an excellent example of expository prose.
The most infamous controversy involved the retired first minister of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, who in the early 1980s launched a campaign called "Save Ulster from sodomy" as he and his followers tried to thwart the liberalisation of gay sex laws in the province.
