Sentence examples for on a polemic from inspiring English sources

And that brings on a polemic that was tested to a degree at Wembley.

He was the first to doubt the significance of nonconstructive existence proofs (proofs that show something must exist, often by using a proof through contradiction, but that give no method of producing them), and for many years he carried on a polemic against the analytic school of the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass concerning these proofs and other points of classical analysis.

In a way, the author of a polemic on marijuana policy suffers from the odd case of having too many facts on his side.

The imagery unfolds, from a meditation on black girls' braids to a polemic on makeup contouring to an inquiry into waist trainers.

In addition to his numerous articles in the official gazette and al-Urwat al-wuthqā, ʿAbduh's most important writings included Risālat at-tawḥīd ("Treatise on the Oneness of God"); a polemic on the superiority of Islām to Christianity in its inherent receptivity to science and civilization; and a fragmentary commentary on the Qurʾān, completed after his death by a disciple.

Until Lustig came along, the last time an academic forcefully put forward the sugar-as-toxin thesis was in the 1970s, when John Yudkin, a leading authority on nutrition in the United Kingdom, published a polemic on sugar called "Sweet and Dangerous".

His 2004 series The Power of Nightmares was a polemic on the war on terror and the use of fear by western governments to manipulate the population.

For the past two years, Libya has meant just one thing in Washington: a polemic about the attack on a U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi and the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Short on revelation, this memoir qua military history is largely a polemic on behalf of the Army grunt.

Almond's seductive photographs contain a polemic on how technology and industrialisation has altered nature.

In the end, Pollard offers a polemic on behalf of a polemic, leaving the reader twice removed from understanding a crucial issue.