"I have resigned to bring closure to this meaningless controversy threatening our fledgling democracy," he said.
On November 22, 2011, Mr. Haqqani resigned from his job in a goodwill gesture "to bring closure to this meaningless controversy threatening our fledgling democracy".
That's such a subtle maneuver, but it turned Adam Carolla into a media bogeyman, and it created a ton of meaningless controversy that moved millions of eyeballs to pages that media outlets could monetize.
In an email to Yahoo! News, Ambassador Haqqani explained his resignation saying, that he "resigned to bring closure to this meaningless controversy threatening our fledgling democracy," and noted that "A transparent inquiry will strengthen the hands of elected leaders whom I strived to empower".
Citing the mainstream availability of Cannibal Holocaust, Jeffrey Sconce rejects definitions of cult films based on controversy and excess, as they've now become meaningless.
Increasing use of the term by mainstream publications has resulted in controversy, as cinephiles argue that the term has become meaningless or "elastic, a catchall for anything slightly maverick or strange".
The teams were locked into their matchup, the source of the swell of controversy that followed Coughlin's brazen decision to chase what would be, in the standings, a meaningless victory.
However, progress has not been unimpeded: various controversies swirl around the benefits, uniqueness, supposed risks and other aspects of "GMOs", or genetically modified organisms which, as we explain, is a meaningless "category"—and the foods derived from them.
