Sentence examples for widening controversy from inspiring English sources

To Ms. Dorival, the widening controversy has led to a false impression about neighborhood watch programs, which she said strengthen local communities and help reduce crime.

Investors, nervous that the widening controversy would imperil the company's bid to acquire the parts of British Sky Broadcasting that it does not already own, have dumped shares over the last several days.

Investors, nervous that the widening controversy would imperil the company's bid to acquire the parts of British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB, that it does not already own, have dumped shares over the last several days.

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland — As the sexual abuse scandal sweeps through the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the United States, there are few places where dismay and confusion among worshipers strikes as deep a chord as here in Armagh, seat of the embattled cardinal whose fate has become closely entangled with the widening controversy facing Pope Benedict XVI.

WASHINGTON, D.C.--A senior manager at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) has been reassigned as agency officials scramble to quell a widening controversy about the misuse of funds earmarked for specific diseases.

And in 2013, CBS faced a widening controversy surrounding the heavily-hyped 60 Minutes report about the terrorist attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

President Roh Moo Hyun stepped into a widening political controversy by rejecting calls for a referendum on his plan to move the capital from Seoul to a province to the south, starting in 2012.

The widening worldwide controversy over the Russian law has prompted officials from the International Olympic Committee and from FIFA, which chose Russia as host of the 2018 World Cup, to demand clarifications from the Kremlin about the law, and assurances that gay athletes and fans will not face mistreatment.

The initial findings of the Pentagon review represent the first official acknowledgment that military interrogators had videotaped some sessions with detainees and could widen the controversy over the treatment of prisoners in American custody.

Amid the widening phone-hacking controversy at the media empire, British officials indicated on Friday that it could take awhile to assess the proposed acquisition of BSkyB, sending shares of the broadcaster plummeting even further.

This year's choice risked controversy by widening the remit to include climate change, arguing that the crisis had the potential to increase the risk of violent conflicts and wars.