Sentence examples for hot-button controversy from inspiring English sources

The rabid Yankee fan lurking within the outwardly temperate Mr. Cardozo was reminded of that on April 5, when instead of attending the home opener, he found himself testifying before the City Council on the hot-button controversy of that day, the guardianship of the archives of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani: "I never knew I'd be in the middle of that".

Selma is now the subject of a hot-button controversy pegged to objections – first stated by Joseph A Califano Jr, President Johnson's top assistant for domestic affairs from 1965 to 1969 – that claim that the film's portrayal of Johnson is historically inaccurate.

As for this year's hot-button controversy over whether or not trans people should be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity sparked by the passage of North Carolina's House Bill 2 most conservatives I met told me they could give two shits which bathroom adults used.

"Rather than search out the cutting-edge, hot-button controversies, I highlighted everyday faith issues," relates Hewitt.

Global warming is a hot-button, controversial issue.

Unlike other hot-button constitutional controversies, conservatives have a hopeless public-relations war to wage.

The dynamics of the ordinary news cycle focus our attention on the most immediate, hot-button stories, causing us to lurch from controversy to controversy, as the examples in the opening paragraph suggest.

Although the vaccination debate has become a recent hot-button issue in the United States, the controversy is not directly related to the mission of ASAL, which serves mainly to reach impoverished countries where the majority of preventable deaths occur.

Never one to shy away from controversy or the hot-button issues of the day, Michael Moore has jumped into fundraising for the mosque/Muslim community center to be built two blocks away from Ground Zero -- an issue inflaming passions and protests on opposite ends of the globe, mainly in the Middle East and at the proposed site in New York.

The first of two back-to-back episodes dealt with such hot-button topics as the aforementioned "Air Bud" controversy (Si thought it a better movie than "Bourne") the pitfalls of group-texting, the existence of Si-crobes (Si had fallen ill with "the bird flu") and the love women have for planning fancy parties.

But the real political goal is to festoon this appropriations wad with an incongruous mix of resurrected controversies, hometown pork and hot-button proposals.