Sentence examples for french controversy from inspiring English sources

Ewen Buchanan, a spokesman for the special commission, said the group had planned to call for a new meeting of experts even before the French controversy arose.

This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino–French controversy of 1880 1885 adds a new dimension to our understanding of China's response to the West in the nineteenth century.

PARIS — When McDonald's France announced a plan to open a restaurant in the commercial mall under the Louvre, the scene appeared to be set for a new French controversy.

After years of French controversies over headscarves, pork has become the new battleground in the nation's uneasy debate over national identity and the place of Islam.

Bonneuil et al's (2008) study of the French public controversy over GM crop trials discusses how these experiments were designed as an expert endeavour, but became publicly constructed as "an intrusion in the social space, which had to be negotiated with actors from that space" (p. 1).

Like all French public controversies, it was a mixture of the absurd, the profound, the inscrutable, the enviable, and, always, the metaphoric.

– It remains a French and international controversy about the use of the sitting position in neurosurgery.

People remember the footage of him eating a hamburger outside the stadium having been substituted at half-time during a Euro 2012 qualifier and might raise their eyes rather more than the French to hear controversy has flared up again.

A detailed account (in French) of the controversy is provided by the blogger Jean-Marie Lamblard, who, as a young theatre enthusiast, observed the group's unhappy relationship with the town — which included attacks on the troupe by right-wing vigilantes.

Le Gris' insistence on defending his case by chivalric trial by combat rather than opting for the safer church trial (to which as a cleric in minor orders he was entitled) attracted widespread support for his cause amongst the French nobility, and controversy continues to this day as to where the real guilt lies in the case.

"Affairs" — that's what the French call public controversies.