Sentence examples for it a controversy from inspiring English sources

"This is not a distraction yet, nor is it a controversy," Valentine said.

"I wouldn't call it a controversy," said Stu Jackson, the N.B.A.'s vice president for basketball operations.

THE advent of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" has brought with it a controversy that seems, at least at first glance, familiar, even ritualistic.

At the same time, a collieshangie (some call it a controversy) broke out over the National Theatre of Scotland's refusal to stage classic works of Scots-language drama – particularly, Sir David Lyndsay's 1540 play, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.

"It's unfortunate that it took a controversy over a mosque to bring attention to the church," he said.

However, Brauer suggests that Ortiz sent it to his gallery in New York, where it caused a controversy.

Even when controversy increasingly arose over how best to characterize it, the assumption seems to have been that it was a controversy over the one correct way of characterizing the concept of responsibility.

As Melinda Gates said, contraception is not controversial, so let's not treat it like a controversy.

"It was a controversy, and I didn't want to get caught in the middle of it.

It also seems that, after some revelations provided by an independent fact-finding report, that it was a controversy that never really needed to happen.

It was a controversy marked by her usual flair.