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  • In the midst of the controversy, an outside audit of Korean Air's operations was leaked to the public.†   (source)
  • "There has been much controversy regarding the 126th Annual Peace Festival due to the emperor's illness, but Prince Kaito has told the press that the festival will continue as scheduled and that he hopes it might bring some joy in this otherwise tragic time."†   (source)
  • For a detailed account of the contamination controversy, see A Conspiracy of Cells, by Michael Gold.†   (source)
  • In March 1995 I received a call from an editor at Outside magazine proposing that I join a guided Everest expedition scheduled to depart five days hence and write an article about the mushrooming commercialization of the mountain and the attendant controversies.†   (source)
  • More importantly, Kassad would have accrued a time-debt of at least eighteen standard months and whatever controversy surrounded him might well be over by that time.†   (source)
  • "You think it's just a coincidence that every time some congresswoman or blogger talks about monopoly, they suddenly become ensnared in some terrible sex-porn-witchcraft controversy?†   (source)
  • The effects of these TV ads have long been a subject of controversy.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Madison, trying so hard to contain the controversy, looked tired.†   (source)
  • When the others find out about Mink's latest caper, there is a period of prolonged controversy, animosity, litigation and disgrace.†   (source)
  • This provoked further controversy, and the pressure of letters continued to build up urging the Society to declare more fully its membership criteria.†   (source)
  • There was some controversy over the burial, because of Megan's supposed role in the child's death.†   (source)
  • Because of the controversy, we delayed doing the operation.†   (source)
  • What he was so shocked about was that Phaedrus didn't know he was at the locus of what is probably the most famous academic controversy of the century, what a California university president described as the last attempt in history to change the course of an entire university.†   (source)
  • It was the cause of bitter controversies.†   (source)
  • It has a tendency to freeze in the face of controversy.†   (source)
  • And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive.†   (source)
  • The controversy divided the hospital staff into two camps.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be made of rubber, and seemed, indeed, to be fleeing from the controversy which raged around him—in which, nevertheless, he was fatally involved.†   (source)
  • There was always controversy about whether or not we should accept study privileges.†   (source)
  • Everyone loved the princesses because of their great beauty, their gentle ways, and their ability to settle all controversies fairly and reasonably.†   (source)
  • What he said remains a matter of controversy.†   (source)
  • Controversies over the use of public park space for soccer have long been part of the game's history in the United States.†   (source)
  • Handgun opponents call Lott a pro-gun ideologue, and Lott let himself become a lightning rod for gun controversy.†   (source)
  • Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made.†   (source)
  • At first he had started out spare and just put the name of the firm, "Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium," but that caused controversy in itself.†   (source)
  • Now he had had a confidential talk with his mother, only to discover that before he was born, before the first nerve end had formed in his mother's womb, he was the subject of great controversy and strife.†   (source)
  • Early in their move to the Valley, Belle became a fully accepting practitioner of the vivid Protestant strain that assumed a seven-day creation of the Earth, a Great Controversy between Jesus Christ and Satan, and a millennial return of Christ into history, at which moment the dead will awaken, evil will vanish, and time will end.†   (source)
  • Phillip hears the conversation crest forward, with tap dancing mentioned in the same breath as a similar controversy-now ended-over his brother Israel's sax playing.†   (source)
  • But no white homemaker would hire her as a housekeeper, not with her baggage and controversies.†   (source)
  • You've become identified with that controversy and it's our job to bring such subjects to the eyes of our readers.†   (source)
  • During the time he had been held prisoner, Lord Stirling had heard Hessian officers remark that they had never considered it their duty to inquire which of the two sides in the American controversy was right.†   (source)
  • They built an enormous private residence at the top of Spring Street that became known as Rose Red, a structure that has been the source of much controversy.†   (source)
  • The accusations were denied by the church, and the Reverend Clegg stood firmly on Forbes' side in the controversy.†   (source)
  • And therein lies the fundamental dilemma and the controversy of Fire World–and the reason the planet has not been closed, though there has certainly been adequate time to populate it fully.†   (source)
  • The only controversy came when Brandon Spikes tried to poke a guy in the eye.†   (source)
  • The rejection of Prusias's demands triggered a firestorm of controversy.†   (source)
  • At a time when the civil rights controversy has threatened to damage his presidency, the European trip proves that he is clearly the most popular and charismatic man in the world.†   (source)
  • There's such a controversy about Rearden Metal.†   (source)
  • We address the controversies and issues, anxieties and assumptions, some highly emotional, provoked by language today, and our findings will be news to many.†   (source)
  • I wanted to walk through the plebe year unnoticed, drawing no controversy, and making no enemies.†   (source)
  • Who did she think she was, anyway-bringing this kind of controversy and trouble into a good, industrious, Christian town like Canterbury?†   (source)
  • But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.†   (source)
  • A New York lieutenant wrote to his sister in January, 1863, that in his officers' mess "we have had several pretty spirited, I may call them hot, controversies about slavery, the Emancipation Edict and kindred subjects."†   (source)
  • Commerce Can Create Controversies†   (source)
  • My mother's suggestion of Edgar Allan Poe was one that brought quite a bit of controversy.†   (source)
  • But Lane couldn't let a controversy drop until it had been resolved in his favor.†   (source)
  • Now, as most people know, I'm at the center of this controversy over, of all things, maple syrup, and one of the richest men in the world.†   (source)
  • He spoke in English so perfect that the controversy it began was to rage across the Atlantic for a generation.†   (source)
  • Since I made no secret of my project, a number of controversies arose among my friends and advisers.†   (source)
  • But here, in one of Mencken's hangouts, I could not but recall some of the things he had said about controversy, such as, "Did Huxley convert Wilberforce?" and "Did Luther convert Leo X?" and I decided not to set my hopes too high for anything that might emerge from that direction.†   (source)
  • Avoid controversy and argument.†   (source)
  • Neither of them had much to say about thegreen Crucifixions or the pink Nativities; the five or six paintings dealing with religious aspects of the war stirred them to controversy.†   (source)
  • There'll be plenty of erudite controversy you can be sure!†   (source)
  • But the seams of compromise were bursting by 1850, as vast new territories acquired by the Mexican War accelerated the pace of the slavery controversy.†   (source)
  • Langdon certainly understood the controversy.†   (source)
  • This all came to a head in the tokens controversy.†   (source)
  • He is living in the same motel where all the controversy took place.†   (source)
  • For sources regarding the HeLa contamination controversy, see notes for chapter 20.†   (source)
  • We'd been in the middle of what we later came to call the "tokens controversy."†   (source)
  • The tokens controversy was, I suppose, all part of our getting more acquisitive as we grew older.†   (source)
  • Even today, it can cause controversy having a woman on a typical Swedish moose hunt.†   (source)
  • This argument has, understandably, sparked a great deal of controversy in the popular press.†   (source)
  • Fyfe's response, though, was to sidestep that controversy and conduct a study.†   (source)
  • We, until this time of controversy, did not care for such matters.†   (source)
  • Commerce is another source of controversy.†   (source)
  • In Waco, as he remembered, he had caused controversy because he never seemed to sleep.†   (source)
  • I feel a strong temptation and have great provocation to plunge into political controversy.†   (source)
  • All the indiscretions and controversies of the past are forgotten.†   (source)
  • " "If there's mad Indians around, you may get more controversy than you bargained for," Call said.†   (source)
  • "to controversies between two or more States; between a State and†   (source)
  • Religious controversy is better than none.†   (source)
  • A variety of controversies grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind.†   (source)
  • In three instances, religious controversies have severed the league.†   (source)
  • Only national courts can decide controversies between the nation and its States or citizens.†   (source)
  • It had jurisdiction in controversies between inhabitants and people who came to consult the oracle.†   (source)
  • To controversies to which the United States shall be a party.†   (source)
  • As American religious ideals changed, however, the joking criticism turned to controversy, and the statue was removed, banished to a shed in the east garden.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stone had long been suspected of liberal tendencies; he was too friendly, some thought, with his Yankee brethren; he had recently emerged partially damaged from a controversy over the Apostles' Creed; and worst of all, he was thought to be ambitious.†   (source)
  • While I was able to stay out of any personal controversy, a few of our team members and supportive friends did get heatedly involved.†   (source)
  • Just the fear of controversy swiftly led to a purchasing change with important ramifications for American agriculture.†   (source)
  • The Masonic organization, and especially Peter Solomon, would find themselves embroiled in a firestorm of controversy and a desperate effort at damage control …. even though the ritual was innocuous and purely symbolic.†   (source)
  • In view of what I am about to relate, it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely, though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time, adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting.†   (source)
  • And in the wake of the explosion in the sky over the Vatican last night, CERN's antimatter technology has become the hot topic among scientists, sparking excitement and controversy.†   (source)
  • After we evaluated Denise, controversy broke out here at Hopkins over whether to do a hemispherectomy.†   (source)
  • I also relied on both published and unpublished reflections by those directly involved in the controversy.†   (source)
  • Looking back, I believe that God had used the controversy over Denise to prepare me for the steps yet ahead.†   (source)
  • For further reading in the history of bioethics, including the changes that followed the Southam controversy, see Albert R. Jonsen's The Birth of Bioethics; David J. Rothman's Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making; George J. Annas's Informed Consent to Human Experimentation: The Subject's Di lemma; M. S. Frankel, "The Development of Policy Guidelines Governing Human Experimentation in the United States: A Case Study of Public…†   (source)
  • Tommy and I discussed the tokens controversy a few years ago, and we couldn't at first agree when it had happened.†   (source)
  • The news coverage of the ethical debate surrounding the Southam controversy includes "Scientific Experts Condemn Ethics of Cancer Injection," New York Times, January 26, 1964; Earl Ubell, "Why the Big Fuss," Chronicle-Telegram, January 25, 1961; Elinor Langer, "Human Experimentation: Cancer Studies at Sloan-Kettering Stir Public Debate on Medical Eth ics," Science 143 (February 7, 1964); and Elinor Langer, "Human Experimentation: New York Verdict Affirms Patient Rights," Science…†   (source)
  • Yet we hesitated, not wanting to make this a personal issue, feeling that if we did, the controversy could erupt and affect the morale of the entire hospital staff.†   (source)
  • Sources regarding the ongoing controversy include L. Coriell, "Cell Repository," Science 180, no. 4084 (April 27, 1973); W A. Nelson-Rees et al., "Banded Marker Chromosomes as Indicators of Intraspecies Cellular Contamination," Science 184, no. 4141 (June 7, 1974); K. S. Lavappa et al., "Examination of ATCC Stocks for HeLa Marker Chromosomes in Human Cell Lines," Nature 259 (January 22, 1976); W K. Heneen, "HeLa Cells and Their Possible Contamination of Other Cell Lines: Karyotype…†   (source)
  • Still wounded by the way Congress had treated him, he imagined that in the rancorous atmosphere of Philadelphia, with controversy swirling about the Deane affair and the hatred between Franklin and Arthur Lee, his own reputation was suffering.†   (source)
  • A massive controversy ensued.†   (source)
  • Throughout his employment, Parker's one distinguishing trait has been an ability to manufacture controversy.†   (source)
  • The phone call from Booker Sistrunk had been a miracle, and Rufus leapt at the chance to plunge into some controversy.†   (source)
  • Late in 1986 he laid plans for his own escape, but they were disrupted by the emerging controversy over American arms shipments to Iran, which brought about tightened security.†   (source)
  • In addition, the Patriot Act was a center of controversy, also eerily reminiscent of the McCarthy era.†   (source)
  • Edwin Stanton did not live long after the death of Abraham Lincoln, and those years he did live were fraught with controversy.†   (source)
  • It was at Lake Merriman, and we hadn't even gotten to walk along and throw rocks in the water because of all the activities, like making big felt banners that said PAX or had big white doves carrying olive branches, or thinking of rock songs that could be sung in the sanctuary with the accompaniment of an electric guitar; it was a time when controversy was in and so the more old people like Mrs. Poole you could distress during a service, the better.†   (source)
  • The High Organ was the source of some controversy because of its ethnic composition: all four permanent members were from Xhosa backgrounds.†   (source)
  • When I asked Swaney about the controversy involving soccer in the park and his comments in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution—"There will be nothing but baseball down there as long as I am mayor," Swaney had said.†   (source)
  • The professors, meanwhile, have moved on to the companion controversy about hiring minority faculty members.†   (source)
  • Not only did Van Buren support him, he also permitted Trist to retain his post despite the controversy.†   (source)
  • It's sparked a controversy about "keeping with your own and all that," Rob says earnestly and adds, "It makes me really angry, a real outrage, you know?"†   (source)
  • Like myself, the people of this region never expected to be embroiled in an international, interstellar. controversy.†   (source)
  • As the chief historian for the Navy Medical Department noted, "If it compares favorably, then that's the end of the controversy.†   (source)
  • Still, an argument before the Supreme Court was not something to be taken lightly, especially when it was on behalf of a case that' carried so much controversy and potential for far-reaching actions.†   (source)
  • Instead, he wrote again, speciously insisting that blame for the controversy rested with "Publicola."†   (source)
  • Though often portrayed as a strictly North-South controversy with clearly defined pro and con camps, the issue of slavery was much more complex and muddy than its geographical delineations.†   (source)
  • As always, he avoided open dispute, debate, controversy, or any kind of confrontation, but behind the scenes he was unrelenting and extremely effective.†   (source)
  • Fox News is pleased to announce an exclusive broadcast from none other than Tyler Vernon, the maple syrup king and the man at the center of the current controversy over maple syrup production, direct and live from his home in New Hampshire.†   (source)
  • Not that he's avoided controversy.†   (source)
  • There was much controversy about how far north moccasins could live--were they in the Cimarron, the Arkansas, the Platte?†   (source)
  • But then that spring of 1791, Adams and Jefferson were caught up in a public controversy that neither anticipated or wanted and that put the first severe strain on their already cooling friendship.†   (source)
  • Cedric says he doesn't read the paper much, so Rob fills him in on the object of controversy: a wall in one of the boys' bathrooms with graffiti listing the names of black guys who date white girls.†   (source)
  • To Hamilton, he expressed a deep melancholy that "a fabric so goodly, erected under so many providential circumstances," should be "wracked by controversy and brought to the edge of collapse."†   (source)
  • The thought that it might have been Jefferson, with his aversion to controversy, Jefferson who idolized Franklin, serving on the commission instead of Arthur Lee, was never lost on Franklin or Adams.†   (source)
  • Numbers of physicians and ordinary citizens performed heroically, doing all they could for the stricken, and no one more so than Rush, though whether his ministrations—his insistence on "mercurial purges" and "heroic bloodletting"—did more good than harm became a subject of fierce controversy.†   (source)
  • However, when there is a controversy between States, States will be viewed in their collective, political capacities only.†   (source)
  • And to a degree he had succeeded, although one of his proudest achievements, a bill for the establishment of religious freedom, a subject of extreme controversy, was not passed by the legislature until several years hence, after he departed for France.†   (source)
  • …care shall be taken in his instructions that he shall not go to France without direct and unequivocal assurances from the French government, signified by their Minister of Foreign Relations, that he shall be received in character, shall enjoy the privileges attached to his character by the law of nations, and that a minister of equal rank, title, and powers shall be appointed to treat with him, to discuss and conclude all controversies between the two Republics by a new treaty.†   (source)
  • The boundaries between the mental activities of sense, perception, judgment, desire, choice, memory, and imagination elude the subtlest investigations and are a source of controversy.†   (source)
  • The legislature has often "decided rights which should have been left to judiciary controversy, and the direction of the executive, during the whole time of their session, is becoming habitual and familiar."†   (source)
  • Controversies Easily Severed League†   (source)
  • The federal courts are the proper tribunals for determining controversies between different States and their citizens.†   (source)
  • To controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States.†   (source)
  • If paper money is emitted, the controversies concerning it would be cases arising under the Constitution and not the laws of the United States.†   (source)
  • It declared and waged war, acted as the last court of appeals in controversies between states, used force against disobedient members, and admitted new members.†   (source)
  • The two judiciary courts—the imperial chamber and the aulic council—have final jurisdiction in controversies concerning the empire or among its states.†   (source)
  • And all other controversies between the citizens of the same State, unless they involve violations of the US Constitution by acts of the State legislatures, will also be under State court jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • …the laws of the United States,
    "and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;
    "to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls;
    "to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;
    "to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;
    "to controversies between two or more States; between a State and
    citizens of another State; between citizens of different States;
    "between citizens of the same State claiming lands and…†   (source)
  • Years later, Cannon was to say to him: Norris, throughout our bitter controversy, I do not recall a single instance in which you have been unfair.†   (source)
  • [The LOGICIAN, a little to one side between the HOUSEWIFE and the group which has formed round JEAN and BERENGER, follows the controversy attentively, without taking part.†   (source)
  • Paying but little heed to the demands of his constituents, he exhausted all available treatises on both sides of the controversy.†   (source)
  • At a press conference, the Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee refused to comment on the subject, stating that he had "his own ideas" on the Nuremberg trials but did not "wish to enter into a controversy with Senator Taft."†   (source)
  • And his own belligerent temperament soon destroyed any hope that Congress might now join hands in carrying out Lincoln's policies of permitting the South to resume its place in the Union with as little delay and controversy as possible.†   (source)
  • Although illness in the family had prevented him from arriving in time to vote on ratification of President Jefferson's treaty for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, he promptly aroused a storm of controversy by becoming the only Federalist to support that precedent-shattering acquisition actively on the floor and to vote for an $11 million appropriation to effectuate it.†   (source)
  • Long before those discouraging months in the Senate when his mail was filled with abuse from the Massachusetts Federalists, long before he had even entered the Senate, he had noted in his diary the dangers that confronted a Puritan entering politics: "I feel strong temptation to plunge into political controversy," he had written, "but …. a politician in this country must be the man of a party.†   (source)
  • But he was saddened by the failure of a single other New England Whig to rise to his defense, and he remarked that he was engaged in a controversy in which I have neither a leader nor a follower from among my own immediate friends…… I am tired of standing up here, almost alone from Massachusetts, contending for practical measures absolutely essential to the good of the country…… For five months …. no one of my colleagues manifested the slightest concurrence in my sentiments…… Since the…†   (source)
  • But as he talked with Southern leaders and observed "the condition of the country, I thought the inevitable consequences of leaving the existing controversies unadjusted would be Civil War."†   (source)
  • The article started a violent controversy in art circles.†   (source)
  • Philosophic controversy usurps a good part of the novel.†   (source)
  • But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill.†   (source)
  • In the past such a state of affairs has usually resolved itself into a motionless Alexandrianism, an academicism in which the really important issues are left untouched because they involve controversy, and in which creative activity dwindles to virtuosity in the small details of form, all larger questions being decided by the precedent of the old masters.†   (source)
  • But I was wrong in thinking that the religious controversy was quashed; it flamed up again after dinner on Brideshead's last evening.†   (source)
  • Of the fighting quarter, four-tenths are those who hate you, three-tenths are those who feel they must express an opinion in any controversy, two-tenths are those who play safe and herald any 'discovery,' and one-tenth are those who understand.†   (source)
  • But even at risk of floundering in strange bogs, he could not keep out of an open controversy.†   (source)
  • At bottom the controversy is the same, and the dramatic results are the same.†   (source)
  • I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore.†   (source)
  • — And an unprecedented controversy broke forth.†   (source)
  • Over The Brandy The controversy was over.†   (source)
  • And so ran the controversy, not always good-natured.†   (source)
  • We held daily controversies upon this subject.†   (source)
  • "Well," said he, "of course you will see that all that is a dead controversy now.†   (source)
  • Before the controversy was terminated, an inroad of Protestants had come to aid the soldier.†   (source)
  • In the midst of a controversy of the kind, two messengers arrived—Malluch and one unknown.†   (source)
  • As for the conversation, the controversy—a controversy between Settembrini and Naphta, of course—it was about something entirely different, only loosely connected with their special discussions about Freemasonry.†   (source)
  • V The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.†   (source)
  • Her most intimate friend at school had been one of rather exceptional intellectual gifts, who wrote fine-sounding essays, which Edna admired and strove to imitate; and with her she talked and glowed over the English classics, and sometimes held religious and political controversies.†   (source)
  • Maud Dyer chronicled Dave's digestive disorders; quoted a recent bedtime controversy with him in regard to Christian Science, socks and the sewing of buttons upon vests; announced that she "simply wasn't going to stand his always pawing girls when he went and got crazy-jealous if a man just danced with her"; and rather more than sketched Dave's varieties of kisses.†   (source)
  • He suddenly left the cabin, and I heard him in violent controversy with some one, who seemed to me to talk gibberish in response to him.†   (source)
  • Since Kennicott, Vida Sherwin, and Guy Pollock were her only lions, and since Kennicott would have preferred Sam Clark to all the poets and radicals in the entire world, her private and self-defensive clique did not get beyond one evening dinner for Vida and Guy, on her first wedding anniversary; and that dinner did not get beyond a controversy regarding Raymie Wutherspoon's yearnings.†   (source)
  • Bazin, who had been standing listening to all this controversy with a pious jubilation, sprang toward them, took the breviary of the curate and the missal of the Jesuit, and walked respectfully before them to clear their way.†   (source)
  • The citizen bids for a few turns, contemptuously measuring his opponent; but the bullet-head has the advantage over him, both in obstinacy and concealed length of purse, and the controversy lasts but a moment; the hammer falls,—he has got the girl, body and soul, unless God help her!†   (source)
  • In the nations of Europe the courts of justice are only called upon to try the controversies of private individuals; but the Supreme Court of the United States summons sovereign powers to its bar.†   (source)
  • Article VII In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.†   (source)
  • Only on one occasion Pavel Petrovitch fell into a controversy with the nihilist on the subject of the question then much discussed of the rights of the nobles of the Baltic province; but suddenly he stopped of his own accord, remarking with chilly politeness, 'However, we cannot understand one another; I, at least, have not the honour of understanding you.'†   (source)
  • This narrative provoked some rectifications on the part of the prince, who, as he said, pretended to know something about that matter; and having satisfied himself that Newman was in no laughing mood, either with regard to the size of his head or anything else, he entered into the controversy with an animation for which the duchess, when she set him down as a bore, could not have been prepared.†   (source)
  • Now Papa and Mama Meagles both!' here she rose; 'allow me to take the liberty of putting an end to this rather formidable controversy.†   (source)
  • But you know how the theologians in their collegiate chairs, and philosophers in their controversies, occasionally say cruel truths; let us suppose for the moment that we are theologizing in a social way, or even philosophically, and I will say to you, rude as it may seem, 'My brother, you sacrifice greatly to pride; you may be above others, but above you there is God.'†   (source)
  • The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.†   (source)
  • My first object in accompanying this party was to endeavor to make myself acceptable and useful to your beautiful niece, Master Cap; and the second was to take such an account of the stores that belong to my particular department as shall leave no question open to controversy, concerning the manner of expenditure, when they shall have disappeared by means of the enemy.†   (source)
  • But with the Catholic Question had come a slight wind of controversy to break the calm: the elderly rector had become occasionally historical and argumentative; and Mr. Spray, the Independent minister, had begun to preach political sermons, in which he distinguished with much subtlety between his fervent belief in the right of the Catholics to the franchise and his fervent belief in their eternal perdition.†   (source)
  • With this controversy, and with the means he had adopted to counteract this clerical persecution, Cedric found the mind of his friend Athelstane so fully occupied, that it had no room for another idea.†   (source)
  • The divine, perceiving that he had given his opponent an argument by his own unfortunate selection of a comparison, very prudently relinquished the controversy; although he was fully determined to resume it at a more happy moment, Repeating his request to the young hunter with great earnestness, the youth and Indian consented to ac company him and his daughter to the dwelling that the care of Mr. Jones had provided for their temporary residence.†   (source)
  • It is pitiable that frantic efforts must be made at critical times to get law-makers in some States even to listen to the respectful presentation of the black man's side of a current controversy.†   (source)
  • However, Lord Steyne was not so rude as to impart his suspicions upon this head to Mrs. Becky, whose feelings might be hurt by any controversy on the money-question, and who might have a thousand painful reasons for disposing otherwise of his lordship's generous loan.†   (source)
  • Instead of resenting, or answering the simple but natural appeal of Hist, he walked away, like one who disdained entering into a controversy with a woman.†   (source)
  • …else to have the same blank outlook; and the adherents of the inexplicable more than hinted that their antagonists were animals inclined to crow before they had found any corn—mere skimming-dishes in point of depth—whose clear-sightedness consisted in supposing there was nothing behind a barn-door because they couldn't see through it; so that, though their controversy did not serve to elicit the fact concerning the robbery, it elicited some true opinions of collateral importance.†   (source)
  • As the warmth of controversy however subsided, and party considerations gave place to more liberal views, the wisdom of the measure began to be generally conceded.†   (source)
  • Magua seemed also content to rest the controversy as well as all further communication there, for he resumed the leaning attitude against the rock from which, in momentary energy, he had arisen.†   (source)
  • What greatly strengthens such a suspicion is the fact that this controversy between two ill-matched antagonists—at a period, moreover, laud it as we may, when personal influence had far more weight than now—remained for years undecided, and came to a close only with the death of the party occupying the disputed soil.†   (source)
  • This little controversy was conducted earnestly, but in smothered voices, as if the speakers feared that the dead might overhear them.†   (source)
  • When the question is reduced to the simple expression of the struggle between poverty and wealth, the tendency of each side of the dispute becomes perfectly evident without further controversy.†   (source)
  • Then, as if satisfied with the force of his own reasons, whatever might be their effect on the opinions of the other disputant, the honest but implacable woodsman turned from the fire, content to let the controversy slumber.†   (source)
  • As soon as he rose, he seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose from his chair, saying: "I shall go out.†   (source)
  • …this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all cases of Admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under…†   (source)
  • "You are called wise men, sirs," said the Jester, "and I a crazed fool; but, uncle Cedric, and cousin Athelstane, the fool shall decide this controversy for ye, and save ye the trouble of straining courtesies any farther.†   (source)
  • The authority of a king is purely physical, and it controls the actions of the subject without subduing his private will; but the majority possesses a power which is physical and moral at the same time; it acts upon the will as well as upon the actions of men, and it represses not only all contest, but all controversy.†   (source)
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