Sentence examples for once a controversial from inspiring English sources
Yet, this was once a controversial procedure.
Mr. Cox, once a controversial figure on the Wyandanch school board, dropped out of a job in the banking industry to become a barber and later went to Touro Law School.
Charter schools, which are privately run but publicly financed, were once a controversial experiment championed by conservatives, but now many Democratic politicians, including President Obama, have embraced them as a way to allow educators to try new approaches without being encumbered by the bureaucracy of traditional schools.
When it comes to big-picture stuff, a majority of us seem to believe in the notion of welfare dependency (once a controversial trope peddled by the nasty Tory right, but now as firmly built into the public consciousness as the idea that the poor spend too much of their money on booze, fags and Sky TV).
"I don't know how you do what he's doing," said offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin -- once a controversial Saban hire.
Breast-conserving treatment, once a controversial issue, is now an established alternative to modified radical mastectomy for surgically manageable breast cancer.
He once used a controversial egg contraption?
He fought his way into the lead twice in the last four laps, once with a controversial pass below the yellow line on the track apron.
They were schooled with a potted history of marriage by Yvette Cooper: of how women were once mere objects, granted by fathers to their husbands; of civil non-religious marriages – once a huge, controversial innovation – being introduced in 1836; of women still legally being able to be raped by their husbands until the early 1990s.
Then in 1976, Abraham introduced Dexatrim, a controversial once-a-day diet pill.
The Ha'aretz story offers no source for "self-hating Jews", but does cite "a senior minister" saying, "He drives us mad... Every minute things change, and I am constantly busy doing maintenance on Netanyahu".We once asked on a controversial cover: "Sharon's Israel: the world's worry?" Should we now be wondering that of Mr Netanyahu?
