The Cyclorama is another example of a controversial piece of history; it is a huge painting of the Battle of Atlanta and an unabashed apologia for the Confederacy.
Their cause has attracted sympathy from the social movements—of peasant farmers, trade unions and urban migrants who make up the president's political base.In the end Mr Morales may retreat, at least partially, over the sergeants' revolt, as he has with other protests (over a fuel-price rise, for example, or a controversial road through a national park).
While Macedonia (or FYROM, for Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) seemed to be, for the most part, the more reasonable of the two, lately it lost support through its attempts to tweak the Greek tail.One example is a controversial Alexander the Great statue (link in English) in Skopje's centre.
The Natural Immunomodulators as Novel Immunotherapies for Type I diabetes (NAIMIT) consortium, for example, investigated a controversial theory about diabetes type 1 to come up with new therapies.
Leaders occasionally try to avoid having summits in their capitals; for example, inviting a controversial figure, such as Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams Gerry Adams, to the White House has a deeper significance than hosting him at a neutral location like Zurich.
It's tried to be, if not all things to all people, at least many things to many people (the 2017 Biennial, for example, was a controversial success).
For example, Aimee Semple McPherson, a controversial Pentecostal megachurch pastor who grew up in the Salvation Army, was heavily involved in feeding the hungry during the Great Depression.
For example, the National Children's Study--a controversial $3 billion effort to track the health of 100,000 infants from birth to age 21 that NIH says is too expensive to continue--will get an increase of $43 million, to $113 million, next year (Science, 9 February, p. 751).
The Department of Health and Human Services, for example, is reviewing a controversial rule requiring states to pay for certain uncovered Medicaid expenses.
For example, Chrysler killed a controversial sales bonus program that pitted dealers against one another in price wars.
