Sentence examples for usage controversy from inspiring English sources

Whatever style you choose, in any usage controversy, should be constrained by good sense, not by artificial and intentionally confusing examples.

The advertising agency and the tobacco company were delighted by the unpaid publicity and were only too happy to confess to the error in the coda, "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.

The consequent "usages" controversy split the nonjuring community and ultimately extinguished the party.

In contrast to his success on the football field, Taylor's personal life has been marred by drug usage and controversy.

Washington's professional football franchise is not the only sports team mired in controversy over usage of indigenous names and imagery, but it is certainly the worst.

The English conservative writer Roger Scruton has described the controversies over usage as merely a special case of the debate between conservative and liberal views of politics.

The controversy over appropriate usage and context continues to this day (see below).

A major therapeutic challenge and controversy in the usage of levodopa is its potential to cause toxic effects on nigrostriatal cells.

The stone usage has been "mired in controversy", but most Native American scholars agree that it represents the "synthesis and wholeness, including concepts of renewal and rebirth".

Controversy about the usage of the term famine has had unfortunate consequences for response and accountability in several recent humanitarian emergencies.

The linguists at Language Log have debated virtually every controversy of grammar and usage you can think of, and are a good first stop.