Sentence examples for something of a controversy from inspiring English sources

In his first game as a Buccaneer, he did not play on many passing downs, which caused something of a controversy in the press after the opening 20 6 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

One of the heralded potential examples, predator "inspection" in shoaling fish [ 21] has proved something of a controversy [ 20].

The return of live action will be welcome too, given something of a minor controversy that followed the win in Birmingham after a Pakistan television channel suggested England had been ball-tampering on the final day.

What role Trump would have with the show became something of a small controversy following his election last November.

Filmmaker Phelim McAleer, a vocal critic of those opposed to fracking and something of a courter of controversy, approached the bus with a cameraman, loudly accusing Ono, Lennon and Sarandon of acting in the interests of the "1%" in their opposition to the practice.

This multitude of names reflects something of the controversy that has long surrounded a populist radical, who retired from national politics on January 23rd amid a battle against prostate cancer.Mr Lafontaine's first taste of power was as mayor of the capital of Saarland, a state so inconsequential it almost falls into France.

While William Safire may have get a kick out of adding -gate to everything he wanted to mock in some way, doing so does not make something a controversy any more than adding "ome" makes something genomics.

The film, starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, was something of a surprise winner and not without controversy.

Today, same-sex marriage is legal nationwide in the US and the whole controversy is something of a non-issue.

Alec Baldwin, something of a classicist when it comes to controversy, a man who prefers to court it in the open, gets arrested for riding a bicycle the wrong direction down a one-way street and kicked off an airplane for refusing to turn off his phone.

His administration then ended in controversy, acrimony and something of a farce (see his Wikipedia entry here).