In this context, Plato's Academy was fertile ground for controversy concerning how we are to know mathematics (the sorts of principles, the nature of proofs, etc).
Issues over intellectual property mired one project, an outdoor experiment involving release of water vapor 1000 m above the ground, in controversy, before environmental concerns killed the project outright.
Ever since it was released last year, the documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop has proven fertile ground for controversy and discussion.
The government justified conducting the execution secretly at 5.30 on Saturday morning in the maximum security prison in Gaborone on the grounds that "controversy" surrounded the death sentence.
Protesters on both sides of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" controversy stormed downtown Manhattan this weekend.
Jame Carroll For "The Gift of Reconciliation" (Page 168), James Carroll got the back story on the imam at the center of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" controversy.
Shahina Bashir Germantown, Md., Aug. 23, 2010 To the Editor: Instead of being so divisive, the ground zero mosque controversy could be a golden opportunity for taking a step toward reducing interfaith tensions.
WHEN prosperous central New Jersey farmers built the Freehold-Jamesburg Agricultheal Railroad in thearly 1850s0s, little did they suspect they would be laying the ground for a controversy a century and a half later.
My first thought was that, perhaps, anything was possible in America, in terms of religious freedom and exercises of the First Amendment; it may have been slightly irrational to want or need that reassurance, but then this was the year of the "Ground Zero mosque" controversy.
