Sentence examples for fierce controversies from inspiring English sources

Repeatedly drawn into fierce controversies during the last decade of his life, Luther emerges as a different figure irascible, dogmatic, and insecure.

But the meeting still seemed a public relations success in light of the fierce controversies that have made this papacy less than loved by the downtown art scene, and made that art scene unbeloved by a pope who decries nihilism and relativism at every turn.

Even within the legal positivist tradition, however, the coercive aspect of the law has given rise to fierce controversies.

Mr. Bush's use of signing statements led to fierce controversy.

Surrounded by fierce controversy, funding issues and internal wrangling, the hearings have been delayed.

Sponsel despaired that what is known as "the fierce controversy" would ever be satisfactorily resolved.

But a provision requiring the full coverage of contraception remains a matter of fierce controversy.

Zionism was a subject of fierce controversy among Jews throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

This generated fierce controversy among those who might otherwise have been among his political allies.

The latter, known as the law of maximum work, engaged Berthelot in a fierce controversy with French physicist Pierre Duhem.

Yet the DOJ's extensive use of plea bargains (97% of all criminal convictions come from pleas) already generates fierce controversy in America.