Sentence examples for controversy vied from inspiring English sources

Controversy vied for prominence.

Several theologians continued the controversy, and a number of views vied for acceptance, including monophysitism, which held that Jesus had only a divine nature and that he had passed through his mother, Mary, "as water passes through a tube," in the words of Gregory of Nazianzus.

During the year, film-makers vied with each other to refight battles won long ago and revisit superannuated controversies.

Critics vied to name the movement.

Both vied to win Security Council support.

I actually vied for the role!

Cities vied for his attention.

Two competing 'scripts' vied to influence and shape innovative designs.

This year, 12 female finalists vied for tiaras.

The blocks come amid a controversy over self-censorship, as western media companies vie for financial gain in the world's second-largest economy.

The team's self-defeating attachment to a meatheadly virtuous but ineffective ultra-conservative offense and the bummer-y nascent controversy between the two photogenic and differently incapable quarterbacks passively vying for the role of Guy Who Gets Blamed When The Offense Next Poops Itself and inability to change course, though?