Sentence examples for violent controversies from inspiring English sources

Lessing went into battle against the orthodox clergy, involving himself in violent controversies with their leader, the chief pastor of Hamburg, J.M. Goeze.

The Times' obituary of Gandhi stated: "As was perhaps inevitable in the case of one who was the center of violent controversies for more than half a century, there were others who had very different views about the Indian leader, even contending that he was no better than a scheming demagogue.

The publication of the Augustinus aroused violent controversy.

A violent controversy over preparedness ensued, both in Congress and in the country at large.

Article tells about the violent controversy over the importance and authenticity of the items.

On each side were mobilized France's most eminent literary men, and the violent controversy destroyed the cohesion of French life for more than a generation after.

In 1905, amid violent controversy, any relationship of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as that of the Protestant and Jewish faiths, to the state was dissolved.

He stirred up a violent controversy by declaring in an article in "Woodwind Magazine," that he had yet to hear many clarinettists who actually mal music on the clarinet.

His thought was the centre of a violent controversy and was not fully understood until 1952 with the posthumous publication of his Journal des années de guerre, 1914 1919 ("Journal of the War Years, 1914 1919").

In the violent controversy generated by the removal, Elgin was denounced as a dishonest and rapacious vandal, notably by the poet Lord Byron, while the quality of his acquisitions, later regarded as exceptional, was questioned.

When the first complete translation of the Bible into English emerged, it became the object of violent controversy because it was inspired by the heretical teachings of John Wycliffe.