Example sentences of "controversy over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the different ways of seeing ‘ women in film ’ , especially in the controversies over realism , over documentary film-making , over the gaze and over representations of sexuality , converged , for once , in the serious questions those four women asked about the feminist film debate which I have outlined above . |
| 2 | Most of these options have been taken up in the days of the controversies over Christology . |
| 3 | If there were , then the last decade and a half of selectionist-neutralist controversies over all these different non-definitional issues could have been settled in advance without recourse to empirical data , in an armchair with a scientist 's glossary and a logician 's truth table . |
| 4 | This style of deviationist doctrine seeks to ‘ integrate into the standard doctrinal arguments the explicit controversies over the right and feasible structure of society ’ . |
| 5 | From the end of the eighteenth century with the debate on over-population and the hyperbreeding of the poor , sexuality pervades the social consciousness : from the widespread discussions of the birthrate , deathrate , life expectancy and fertility in the statistical forays of the century to the urgent controversies over public health , housing , birth control and prostitution . |
| 6 | Controversies over non-extradition |
| 7 | A series of contacts with the CNAA from 1965 produced the controversies over the attempt to introduce full-time courses in various disciplines , and to combine them with sandwich courses , with Brighton 's first full-time courses in engineering being approved at the end of that year . |
| 8 | New problems had arisen which the old parties , with their controversies over free trade or the gold standard seemed unable to solve . |
| 9 | The recent controversies over both the Maastricht amendment and Workfare serve to betray the Conservatives ' real economic aim of making Britain the low wage centre of Europe . |
| 10 | The first major demonstration of this was in 1983 , in the controversy over the abortion amendment . |
| 11 | The Controversy over the Reality of Schooling |
| 12 | There is some controversy over the finish on carving chisels and gouges . |
| 13 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 14 | NEIL KINNOCK 'S attempt to defuse the long-standing controversy over black sections looks set for a conference defeat . |
| 15 | THE GOVERNMENT faces controversy over plans to sell off the spectrum of radio frequencies . |
| 16 | Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason . |
| 17 | Any controversy over the new legal framework would give ammunition to Mr Meacher 's critics within the party . |
| 18 | THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids . |
| 19 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 20 | For example , on the controversy over the removal of frontier controls , Britain 's Commissioner proposed that controls should be replaced with police and Customs officer powers to check any traveller on suspicion of drugs or terrorist offences . |
| 21 | INTERNATIONAL conservation groups yesterday demanded the immediate sacking of Eugene Lapointe , the secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , amid mounting controversy over the conduct and funding of the CITES secretariat . |
| 22 | Though Perkins , Stubbes , and Chamberlain hardly convey this , the controversy over dress was no less complex than the social shift s which provoked it . |
| 23 | Middleton and Dekker 's The Roaring Girl ( 1608 — 11 ) , a play with a transvestite hero/ine called Moll Cutpurse , and the 1620 pamphlet controversy over cross-dressing both include attacks on the fraudulence of masculinity and the exploitativeness of gender inequality . |
| 24 | A Future for Farm Buildings by Gillian Darley shows that , for all the controversy over their conversions , barns can be sympathetically transformed for a range of uses . |
| 25 | Yet it remains that , for the first time in 15 years and since the controversy over abortion , opinions are divided so haphazardly that traditional political alliances have ceased to operate . |
| 26 | There is a lot of controversy over which SPF ( sun protection factor ) creams are best for particular countries . |
| 27 | The 1984 St Leger was classic Piggott in more ways than one , for the run-up to the race had been accompanied by a typical controversy over whether he had filched the big-race ride from a fellow jockey . |
| 28 | During the height of the controversy over the 1902 Education Bill , its membership numbered 396 but attendance at annual and special meetings ranged from ‘ small ’ to ‘ fair ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Clinton 's problems were compounded by fresh questions about his Vietnam War draft status , and controversy over remarks by his outspoken wife , Hillary . |
| 30 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |