"controversy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

controversy sustantivo

sustantivo + controversy
Kolokacji: 16
quarterback controversy • Investiture Controversy • media controversy • court controversy • election controversy • ...
controversy + verbo
Kolokacji: 64
controversy surrounding • controversy arises • Controversy erupts • controversy continues • controversy leads • controversy begins • ...
verbo + controversy
Kolokacji: 32
cause controversy • spark controversy • generate controversy • create controversy • stir controversy • provoke controversy • ...
(2) attract, draw
Kolokacji: 2
1. attract controversy = przyciągnij kontrowersję attract controversy
2. draw controversy = kontrowersja losowania draw controversy
  • Yet his genius for drawing controversy to himself, well known in California, made him an unlikely favorite son.
  • The board's proposal had been drawing controversy because it was aimed at stock plans that under Federal law must benefit all employees.
  • Like a lightning rod, the house has drawn critics and controversy over the decades.
  • Nor was the next topic apt to draw much controversy.
  • And while some groups drew controversy, others seem to have been largely ignored.
  • They have drawn controversy for having the same name as people of the Philippines.
  • Operations to capture terrorists have drawn political and legal controversy.
  • The film drew controversy for a scene in which several black men were lynched.
  • There was enough of a sting to these charges at the time to draw controversy, to bring an abrupt end to his research back then.
  • But the plan has drawn controversy because many passengers feel it will benefit only the middle and upper classes.
(3) avoid, face, escape
Kolokacji: 3
(4) embroil, involve, mire
Kolokacji: 3
adjetivo + controversy
Kolokacji: 74
considerable controversy • political controversy • great controversy • public controversy • major controversy • recent controversy • ...
preposición + controversy
Kolokacji: 18
without controversy • amid controversy • of controversy • into controversy • after controversy • ...

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