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How to use the word controversial in a Sentence? Page #8

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If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

– Barbara Ehrenreich

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When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

– Virginia Woolf

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Even the streamlined patent-reform bill before the Senate is significantly controversial. Some estimate the reform could create as many as 2 million jobs, but when you look under the covers, there does not appear to be any support for this. And small businesses, corporations, and individual inventors are significantly opposed."

– Yar Chaikovsky

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12 years ago

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

– General Colin Powell

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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics.

– Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

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The controversial overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

– Fran Lebowitz

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There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

– Cullen Hightower

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A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.

– Henry Louis Mencken

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I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

– Toni Morrison

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Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

– Henry M. Wriston

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