"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 • ...
adjetivo + controversy
Kolokacji: 74
considerable controversy • political controversy • great controversy • public controversy • major controversy • recent controversy • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(3) public, particular, initial
Kolokacji: 3
(6) far, immediate
Kolokacji: 2
(8) bitter, social
Kolokacji: 2
(11) similar, unnecessary
Kolokacji: 2
(12) whole, lively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) serious, substantial, real
Kolokacji: 3
1. long-running controversy = długotrwała kontrowersja long-running controversy
2. long-standing controversy = długoletnia kontrowersja long-standing controversy
3. occasional controversy = sporadyczna kontrowersja occasional controversy
  • While such honorary organizations have helped to provide recognition to leading athletes they also have caused occasional controversy.
  • Donahue was also the subject of occasional controversy.
  • He must also, in this otherwise celebratory book, deal with the occasional controversy the society has managed to provoke.
  • However at the time of their creation they sometimes have appeared radical, stirring occasional controversy.
  • He began a career as a commentator for NBC in the late 1980s and became immediately popular despite the occasional controversy.
  • The survival of "Sesame Street" has involved struggle and occasional controversy.
  • There has been occasional controversy over what constitutes a "true center".
  • Until this season, the husky Husky was the best guard in the Big East and also the subject of occasional controversy away from the court.
  • It has been a source of occasional controversy, due to Prentice's famous anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
  • The notion that art and politics are profoundly intertwined may seem remote to most Americans, give or take the occasional controversy over government support for the arts.
(16) widespread, nationwide
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + controversy
Kolokacji: 18
without controversy • amid controversy • of controversy • into controversy • after controversy • ...

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