Sentence examples for most controversial act from inspiring English sources

It would become the most controversial act of violence in Egypt in years.

X Factor's most controversial act has survived another week after the public gave their rendition of Queen's We Will Rock You the thumbs up.

The most controversial act of Internet censorship in Turkey, so far, was against YouTube, which was blocked in 2007 after the posting of a video that was deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

But his most controversial act was to inform on his peers – he named eight other Hollywood figures as fellow travellers, including screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr and director Herbert Biberman, resulting in their being blacklisted.

However, Cantona's on-field success was soon overshadowed by his most controversial act: as he was leaving the pitch after receiving a red card in a January 1995 match against Crystal Palace FC, he was taunted by an opposing fan and retaliated by jumping into the stands and kicking the fan in the chest.

His most controversial act during his first term as an MP was in 2007, when he voted against new legislation to ban discrimination on the grounds of sexuality (most notably in regard to small family-run hotels and bed-and-breakfast businesses that did not want to admit same-sex couples).

The explosion occurred a day after the anniversary of one of India's most controversial acts of religious intolerance -- the 1992 demolition of an ancient Muslim mosque by right-wing Hindu activists.

Your obituary of Denis Healey (5 October) notes that "one of his most controversial acts was to authorise the expulsion of the population of the Chagos archipelago and the building of a US base at Diego Garcia".

A federal appellate court's publication on Monday of the so-called "drone memo" finally allows the American public to evaluate the legal theories that were the basis for one of the Obama administration's most controversial acts – the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen.

Breathlessness doesn't help much in making sense of such a record, neither the breathlessness that interprets the pope solely through his most controversial acts or statements nor the breathlessness that cannot imagine how a prayerful, learned and revered figure might nonetheless be a flawed leader.

One of MacArthur's most controversial acts came in 1932, when the "Bonus Army" of veterans converged on Washington.