Sentence examples for started a controversy from inspiring English sources

You know you've started a controversy – a proper old-fashioned Straw Dogs-y hoo-hah – when your film is attacked by people who refuse to see it.

Case in point: the chronicle of Saffron Road, a halal food brand on the shelves of Whole Foods that started a controversy.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Eight minutes into the most recent game between the Jets and Indianapolis — long before the Colts pulled their starters and started a controversy — a 30-year-old reserve Jets linebacker named Bryan Thomas blocked an extra point.

After a lawsuit with a moneylender, and quarrels with prominent noblemen, he started a controversy with Maupertuis (the president of Frederick's academy of science, the Berlin Academy) on scientific matters.

In the Orthodox church the Confession started a controversy that culminated in 1672 in a convocation by Dosítheos, patriarch of Jerusalem, of a church council that repudiated all Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner intended to distinguish them from both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

One of the players that was not retained by the team, Matt Bradley, started a controversy with his comments from a radio interview in Ottawa.

I don't want to start a controversy.

"But I'm not in here to start a controversy or anything.

Although this appeared to be a victory it merely taught the coal operators to skip and like Jink Ray's rather than start a controversy that could stir up pressure for stricter regulations or could get somebody shot.

An attorney for the school board, Linwood Gunn, says schools officials never intended to start a controversy with the stickers.

Afterward, Moss said Revis often had help over the top, which when revisited last week, started a minor controversy.