Sentence examples for objects of controversy from inspiring English sources

But there seems little end to the use of routine bills as objects of controversy and procedural maneuvers as a means of obstruction.

Accademia Gallery, Florence The long marble frieze, colossal broken statues of reclining gods, and frenzied carvings of centaurs fighting humans that Lord Elgin removed from the Athenian Acropolis two centuries ago are best known today as objects of controversy – which is sad, because we should be marvelling at their genius.

By contrast, the displays in the Kentucky case, McCreary County v. A.C.L.U., had been placed on the walls of the courthouses by local officials, accompanied in one case by a Christian minister, in 1999, and had immediately become objects of controversy.

Third, it describes landscape elements as they manifest nationalist sentiment and national goals, while often becoming objects of controversy.

They are, however, both clearly untrue and serious objects of controversy in their own right.

But the structure intended to settle a controversy has become an object of controversy itself.

"But she doesn't herself want to be the object of controversy".

They continued, "In the course of our discussions, the ranking 'World's 50 Best' has been the object of controversy.

The head was long an object of controversy among paleontologists, and the Museum is renovating its collection of dinosaurs.

Yet as Francine Prose writes in "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife," the diary remains an object of controversy as well as admiration.

PVC has been an occasional object of controversy since a link between vinyl chloride monomer and cancer was established in 1973.