Sentence examples for polemic over from inspiring English sources

Hollande's team refuse to be drawn into a polemic over the issue.

But will the case against Ratko Mladic end a polemic over the conflict and the intervention that helped to end it?

"I have made errors and I am taking the consequences," he told French television, "but I really do believe that the level of polemic over this does not correspond with the reality of events.

Instead he delivered severity; combative polemic over the hurting body of the republic; a gripping sense of the magnitude of the moment, without ever dropping his audience into resignation or pessimism.

Le Pen has been largely absent from the political scene for several weeks and has refrained from adding her 10 cents' worth to the raging polemic over the burkini and rows about security following deadly attacks by Islamic fundamentalists, both fertile ground for her party.

Those who first saw him unleashing his fearsome but funny polemic over spitting front rows in some of the early punk rock gigs would presumably have been astounded to see him pop up on telly a decade later alongside the Honey Monster, flogging a breakfast cereal.

Getting into heated polemics over the future would only get in the way, they argued.

The conflict in Ukraine has resulted in vicious polemics over media coverage.

There will be ugly polemics over the coming weeks, once the first shock passes, over who was responsible, how this disaster happened, what negligence was involved.

The British and American intelligence agencies had always distrusted their French counterparts - but this distrust was exacerbated by the polemics over Iraq.

It is a century since French Nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus was born – and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road – yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" death rumble on.