"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(7) exist, threaten
Kolokacji: 2
(8) swirl, revolve, roil
Kolokacji: 3
2. controversy revolves = kontrowersja obraca się controversy revolves
3. controversy roils = kontrowersja wrze controversy roils
  • For years, controversy has roiled around the resolution of disputes between brokers and individual investors.
  • The controversy is roiling the department on top of dissension over murder charges against five Queens officers last month in the death of a suspect in a car theft.
  • The controversy has roiled the island, with some vote counters threatening to walk off the job and worries that the federal government is meddling in local affairs.
  • Not all the controversies roiling Riverdale revolve around apartment towers.
  • The controversy over whether the US had foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack has roiled well into the 21st century.
  • Even in death, Capt. Levett could not avoid the controversies roiling the age.
  • The controversy (nay, outrage) over the introduction of TimesSelect still roils and is taking its toll on the good will of your long-term readership.
  • Just as 750 Canadian infantry troops under United States command are being airlifted into Afghanistan, a controversy over the taking and treatment of prisoners has roiled the House of Commons and put the government on the defensive.
  • As controversy about the error roiled backstage at the Super Dome, the dominant Romanians were claiming every space on the medal stand.
  • The controversy over Mr. Christy has roiled The Hollywood Reporter for nearly a month and raised larger issues about the contrasting ways in which journalists have functioned in Hollywood for decades.
(10) subside, fade
Kolokacji: 2
(11) highlight, underscore
Kolokacji: 2
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 • ...
preposición + controversy
Kolokacji: 18
without controversy • amid controversy • of controversy • into controversy • after controversy • ...

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