Sentence examples for vicious controversy from inspiring English sources

Lin's story is famous by now: she was an undergraduate at Yale when she won a competition to design the memorial, and her unconventional design, and Lin herself (young, female, and Asian), quickly became the subjects of vicious controversy.

In its day the council was an object of vicious controversy and polemic -- and not only from Protestants.

Through the remainder of the Wanli emperor's long reign, a series of increasingly vicious partisan controversies absorbed the energies of officialdom, while the harassed emperor abandoned more and more of his responsibilities to eunuchs.

In a statement released Monday afternoon, Mr. Filner said: "I humbly ask that through this vicious storm of controversy people take a moment and temper their rush to judgment.

I guess to some extent I'm used to academic controversies, and however vicious those get, people have a common understanding of where you draw the line about disputing a theory or an idea.

At the center of the controversy this time is not a vicious crime, but a bitterly fought political feud over the hiring and firing of Jasper's first black police chief, Rodney Pearson.

Thus, a vicious and repetitive cycle of continued evolution education controversy continues with increasing momentum.

It said this was creating a "vicious" spiral of botched changes which were often resulting in controversy, giving the example of what it called the "crisis-driven change" in south London this year.

Phoenix has also been at the center of controversy after forward Raffi Torres, its enforcer, was suspended for 25 games for a vicious hit on Marian Hossa of the Blackhawks in the first round.

The debates about the vicious American imperial war in the Philippines, Witt writes, "bore an eerie resemblance to the controversies that would arise in Vietnam in the 1960s and in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s".

Carr Crash:  A comedian dogged by controversy The 39-year-old Cambridge educated comedian Jimmy Carr has often been in the headlines thanks to his vicious on-stage quips and near-the-knuckle gags.