Controversy

Examples

• The same point is frequently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The tariff controversy is almost as old as the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This new controversy touched everybody who read a book or heard intelligent conversation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That too is why debating is such a wretched amusement and most partisanship, most controversy, so degrading. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There has been much discussion and controversy over this Eozoon, but to-day it is agreed that Eozoon is nothing more than a crystalline marking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The second relation I shall observe as essential to causes and effects, is not so universally acknowledged, but is liable to some controversy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Already in the thirteenth century we have seen Pope Gregory IX and the Emperor Frederick II engaging in a violent public controversy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The scientific world at that time was engaged in a controversy regarding the external and internal resistance of a circuit in which a generator was situated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was the everlasting Mr. Begbie, too eager for the controversy to wait any longer at the gate. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For my part, I know not from what principles such a controversy can be certainly determined. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He never left any chance for newspaper controversies about who won the battle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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