Sentence examples for false controversy from inspiring English sources

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Shall we dispense with false controversy?

It is only the woeful lack of scientific literacy in this country that gives this false "controversy" any legs at all.

Too many Republican leaders are determined to whip up as much false controversy and anguish as they can, right through November.

Alter can question our source, as I have, but here's what nearly everyone missed: The overhyped typeface criticisms ingeniously hijacked the story and created a false controversy, which media competitors gleefully exploited as proof that CBS had fallen short.

When Mr. Barofsky first raised this issue in 2010, the White House, in a rare rebuke of an inspector general, said he had "sought to generate a false controversy over A.I.G. to try and grab a few, cheap headlines".

Along this path came the willingness to employ – always at arm's length – not only the kind of racially charged demagoguery that Trump brandishes openly, but the staging of false controversy for political gain that is the real estate executive's modus operandi.

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The difference between the Butler Act and this new legislation encapsulates the change in the anti-science crowd's strategy, from outright bans on disseminating factual information to fake controversy and false equivalencies.

Rather than navel gaze at false controversies, wouldn't we prefer to learn about insights that come from paying close attention to the daily lives of diverse individuals and communities?

The ABC debate last night might have been the most egregious example because it seemed like it was the only thing they asked about, but the whole election so far has been littered with these false controversies.

They do not concern, as McCarthy unsympathetically puts it, "bean-counting," but whether statements about our future actions are already true or false, a controversy that has its theological counterpart in the age-old conundrum of whether God's omniscience is compatible with free will.

At the Energy Department, Damien LaVera, a spokesman, accused Congressional critics of the loan program of "cherry-picking individual e-mails from the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents the department has provided to Congress, with the sole purpose of inventing false and misleading controversy".

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