Sentence examples for polemic between from inspiring English sources

Today's decision provoked a bitter polemic between President Lagos and Gen. Ricardo Izurieta.

Few Iranians have failed to notice the polarisation and keen polemic between reformers and fundamentalists building up over recent years.

In a recent essay announcing his new-found conservatism in The Village Voice, Mr. Mamet described the play as "a polemic between persons of two opposing views".

"The other countries don't want to be drawn into a polemic between Venezuela and the United States," said Jennifer L. McCoy, a Venezuela expert at Georgia State University who headed the Carter Center's election observer mission in Caracas last year.

You would be hard-pressed to find a heated, passionate polemic between writers over some aesthetical, let alone political, issue - nobody seems to care enough, and many are scared to come off as pretentious.

In June, I discussed the polemic between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood over the latter's Iwo Jima diptych that led to the former's new film, "Miracle at St. Anna," detailing the experience of black American soldiers in the Italian campaign of the Second World War.

The visits have taken place against a background of angry polemics between Israel and its neighbors, particularly Lebanon.

In the 14th century the epiclesis became an issue in the polemics between Greeks and Latins, because all Eastern eucharistic prayers included an invocation of the Holy Spirit while the Roman canon of the mass did not.

He became head of the school and archdeacon of Paris c. 1100, but retired in 1108, probably because of the violent polemics between him and Abelard over the doctrine of universals.

After being commissioned in March 1528 by Bishop Tunstall of London to read all heretical writings in the English language in order to refute them for the sake of the unlearned, More published seven books of polemics between 1529 and 1533 the first and best being A Dialogue Concerning Heresies.

See polemics between Göteborgs-Posten (Göteborg, January 29 , 2000 and Postimees (Tartu, February 3, 2000).