Sentence examples for seemed controversial from inspiring English sources

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In the early days, it hardly seemed controversial.

The inclusion of Jones on the relay team seemed controversial because she is under investigation.

When an arts and crafts company placed an ad in Discovery Girls magazine for Tulip Glam-It-Up iron-on crystals, it hardly seemed controversial.

Given a series of scandals involving the misuse of tax dollars, the idea hardly seemed controversial: force City Council members to disclose who was vying for every penny of their discretionary funds.

The words, in a speech by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, were transformed from a warning against a "war-based industrial complex" into a "vast military-industrial complex" and finally into a more vanilla "military-industrial complex," which seemed controversial enough without the qualifier.

The wondrous thing is that she wasn't overstating matters — and yet nothing at all seemed controversial or out of place.

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In hindsight, little of his legislative record seems controversial.

His choice of the chatty Mr Davutoglu may seem controversial.

Storing sand on a beach hardly seems controversial.

"What you see in films that seems controversial isn't controversial in comics, generally.

These measures may seem controversial, but I think today we have no time for doubts.

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