Sentence examples for settle the controversy from inspiring English sources

To settle the controversy, the Synod of Dort (1618 19) was convened.

And until recently little research had been done to settle the controversy.

Officials of Lufeng city, a district that controls Wukan, ordered the building stopped, he said, and asked villagers to select a committee of locals to settle the controversy.

The Council of Nicaea, which condemned Arius as a heretic and issued a creed to safeguard "orthodox" Christian belief, was convened to settle the controversy.

Stefan Köpsell, an instructor in data protection at the Technical University in Dresden, said Apple could probably settle the controversy surrounding the iPhone 4 by obtaining the consent of German users before the data was forwarded.

So Mr Mandelson had to ask the Commons for the power to regulate this matter himself if the province's assembly and executive could not settle the controversy, and after he had consulted them.

To settle the controversies, we inferred the speciation times (T) and ancestral population sizes (N) in the lineage leading to human and great apes based on whole-genome alignment.

Later, as chief counsel for the United States before the Hague Tribunal, he settled the controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the North Atlantic coast fisheries.

Formal acceptance and financial assistance came from Nicephorus' successor, the emperor John I Tzimisces, who in 971 972 had settled the controversy by granting Athos its first charter.

Gillespie settled the controversy by saying that Romney left Bain and went to work at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 1999 and then "retired retroactively" from Bain in 2002.

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a victory for lawmakers, President Hamid Karzai inaugurated the National Assembly on Wednesday, ending months of delays but only partly settling the controversy and recriminations over the September parliamentary elections, which were fraught with charges of widespread fraud.