Sentence examples for official controversy from inspiring English sources

While some Packers fans protested outside Lambeau Field on Tuesday after the replacement official controversy on "Monday Night Football" that resulted in a Seattle victory, the local news took a different approach and had a little fun with the situation.

Russia's top children's rights official has caused controversy by defending the right of middle-aged men to marry teenagers, on the basis that women are often "shrivelled" by the time they turn 27.

In the first public comment by a United States official about the controversy, John V. Hanford, the administration's top-ranking official on issues of religious freedom, took issue with President Jacques Chirac's call for legislation to prevent the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, large crosses for Christians and skullcaps for Jewish boys.

Some elected officials said the controversy had raised new political considerations, especially during this election year.

Nonetheless, fund officials insist the controversy over eligibility criteria had no bearing on the fund's decision to hold up payments.

According to local school and recreation officials, a recent controversy reported by The Scarsdale Inquirer earlier this month was hardly an exception, but indicative of a larger trend.

In spite of the controversy, officials in Bingham County in late September gave Rulon Jones, a former professional football player, permission for a new 2,000-acre 2,000-acreg prelkrve near Blackfoot.

The law enforcement officials said the controversy about the witnesses was almost certainly a factor in Judge Brinkema's decision last month to delay Mr. Moussaoui's trial by nearly six months, to next June.

It will be the town's first official acknowledgment of the controversy surrounding the case.

A senior US administration official denied the surveillance controversy would overshadow Merkel's visit.

Her body of work constituted "a living history" of Soviet and post-Soviet culture that provoked controversy and official repudiation.