Sentence examples for support controversial from inspiring English sources

City councillors are being asked to support controversial proposals for the redevelopment of the former Leeds Girls High Schooll site.

The movement claims to be anti-censorship and anti-political, but then it enthusiastically uses the tactics of reactionary moral campaigners, including hassling corporations into dropping advertising from sites that support controversial writers.

A peer with an incurable form of blood cancer is to urge the House of Lords to support controversial assisted dying legislation that would give him the option of allowing doctors to hasten the end of his life.

They note that they would support controversial expression but not reward it, and go further when suggesting that certain groups must be protected from what those groups take to be derogatory comments.

Only two weeks ago, the Army's inspector general made public a scathing report that said top officials in the corps had manipulated economic figures to support controversial dredging projects on the Mississippi River.

The government appears to have been alarmed at the example that Mr. Wang set by using his great wealth to support controversial causes, like campaigning to erase discriminatory barriers that put rural children at a disadvantage in education, said one of the signatories, Liu Suli, a bookstore owner in Beijing who is a friend of Mr. Wang.

If Mr Corbyn supports controversial measures, his backing might carry more weight than most.

They should avoid supporting controversial policy agendas or corporate interests, or denouncing legitimate perspectives as "anti-science".

But it also shows that at times he supported controversial policies, made strikingly candid comments and took actions that might have raised questions about conflicts of interest.

He also slept with a top aide's wife, went into rehab to address what he called "problems with alcohol," and supported controversial real-estate development and homelessness programs.

Last fall, he raised eyebrows by supporting controversial GOP-backed voter ID laws in his home state.