Forty years on, and now a cross-bench peer, his name has become inextricably linked with the controversial cause of legalising people's right to be helped to die.
Never before have so many minority groups, large unions, and law enforcement organizations rallied behind a the controversial cause.
In the decade she spent on Florida's death row, Wuornos became a controversial cause célèbre.
When Death Cab for Cutie hit the red carpet at this weekend's Grammy awards, they were flying the flag for a new and controversial cause.
But Ms. Booth, 45, who until recently has deliberately avoided politics and who never speaks to reporters, has taken a leading role in what, for Britain, is a decidedly controversial cause: human rights law in an increasingly Europeanized England.
It stirred women's rights groups and activists, giving a high-profile face to their controversial cause: "How many more Jandyras?" and "We are all Jandyra" were the straplines on the protest posters in Copacabana last September.
Gender equality was not the only controversial cause espoused by Condorcet: Even before publicly addressing the woman question, he argued vociferously for the humanity and rights of enslaved Africans, and proposed the abolition of slavery in France's overseas colonies.
But why, when it comes to the far less controversial cause of gays serving in the military, is he apparently willing to punt?" They've all been punting -- the president, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States Congress as well.
Although the latter organism remains a controversial cause of encephalitis because of the difficulty in demonstrating neuroinvasion, the frequency with which it is detected, particularly in children, has led to the inclusion of Mycoplasma serologic testing as part of the recommended pediatric testing algorithm (4 ).
This can lead them to pour money into controversial causes, as Zuckerberg has with education reform.
