Sentence examples for helpful controversy from inspiring English sources

Macdonald's comments may be at odds with the general turnaround in fashion, but the Welsh designer knows how to generate helpful controversy: his spring/summer 2007 collection provoked animal rights groups who felt it relied too heavily on fur, and his search for the country's Next Top Model will no doubt get a boost in ratings.

A clear and objective model for determining compensation would be helpful to reduce controversy.

A certain amount of controversy is helpful.

The controversy was helpful to sales.

While a blood sugar test may provide helpful information, there is controversy over the effectiveness of intensive measures to control heart risks in diabetic patients.

He said that studies on the oyster farm's impact on the environment (all riddled with controversy) were helpful but "not material to the legal and policy factors which provide the central basis for my decision".

An analysis on the utility of the HCAI concept restricted to a single definition would be helpful to clarify this controversy.

Or maybe sidestepping some of the most controversial topics and focusing on the common ground would be most helpful if some of the controversy is so heated that it makes productive discussion on these topics impossible.

A bit of controversy can be helpful, lest we grow complacent.

"Comfort is also a state of mind, and the controversy is not helpful to raising the comfort image of our products".

Far from being commercially helpful, Stone's reputation for controversy made the film almost impossible to produce: no big American studio would touch it, and funding had to be cobbled together from several European sources.