That was essentially what the former peacekeeping commander said in August, provoking a protracted controversy.
A complex and protracted controversy, centring on the right of congregations to exclude candidates for the ministry whom they thought unsuitable, ended in schism.
The protracted controversy over that work, in the course of which he was called both an anti-Semite and a terrorist sympathizer, left him discouraged; he began to think that the genre was not worth the trouble.
(Indeed, these implications continue to reverberate through Cherokee politics in the 21st century, most notably in the protracted controversy surrounding the citizenship status of the descendants of Cherokee freedmen).
The move is likely to be seen as a recognition that Hillary Clinton is set to survive the challenge of Bernie Sanders and protracted controversy over emails sent during her time as secretary of state, and therefore represents the best chance of defeating anti-establishment Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
Mr. Moses' disappointingly drama-free drama does little more than skim the surface of the protracted controversy over the use of suspicious substances by star players in the major leagues.
There has been a protracted controversy, and a large literature, on these issues (Dresser 1995; Dworkin 1994; Stone 2007); they deserve separate discussion.
The discovery rekindled debate in the scientific community over the origins of human habitation in North America and sparked a protracted controversy over whether the scientific or Native American community was entitled to possess and/or study the remains.
It asks what kind of experiment the RBCT actually was, and examines how it has contributed to the protracted controversy over whether to cull badgers in order to control bTB in cattle.
All these issues are not merely bilateral and have strong probabilities to generate protracted regional disputes and controversies over the shared water resources.
The debate was protracted, "contentious and controversial".
