Sentence examples for prolonged controversy from inspiring English sources
After prolonged controversy and litigation — as well as the discharge of more than 13,000 military personnel — Congress repealed the Clinton-era policy in 2010, and gay service members were able to serve openly beginning in 2011.
9 There has been prolonged controversy as to which method is the more effective and efficient.
The prolonged controversy over stop-and-frisk has chilled officers' enthusiasm and initiative.
The 43-year-old made his reputation as Switzerland's chief troubleshooter during the prolonged controversy over the country's actions during World War II.
(Although S&P did make it clear that some of the Tea Party contributions to the debate, including the "prolonged controversy" and the inability to reach "an agreement on raising revenues", were some of the reasons for their decision).
Piyamaradus used Millawanda (possibly Miletus) as his base; that city was a dependency of Ahhiyawa, a large and formidable country, the identity and geographic location of which have been the subject of prolonged controversy.
By last fall, Mr. Feldman and other leaders had decided to withdraw the application rather than prolong the controversy.
By prolonging the controversy, UEFA opens the door to the unspoken question about whether the judgment call was right, wrong or something more sinister.
LONDON — In an admission likely to prolong the controversy over the release of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Britain's justice minister told an interviewer that trade deals, especially in oil, had been a "very big part" of Britain's decision to include the bomber in a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
Thus, an alternative AMP-independent hypothesis involving mitochondrial-derived peroxynitrite was recently proposed, prolonging the controversy [ 17].
As recognition of the disease has widened and medications have significantly prolonged patients' lives, much of the controversy and outlandish tactics that once characterized AIDS protests in New York and elsewhere has ebbed, giving way to bicycle rides and fund-raisers to find a cure.
