controversial subject

collocation in English

meaningsofcontroversialandsubject

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controversial
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒn.trəˈvɜː.ʃəl/us
/ˌkɑːn.trəˈvɝː.ʃəl/
causing disagreement ...
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subject
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/us
/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/
the thing that is being discussed, considered, ...
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(Definition ofcontroversialandsubjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, limiting the fishing effort or capacity has been acontroversialsubject, as this policy appears to cause unemployment in fishing communities.
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Anothercontroversialsubjecthas been the composition of the infant lexicon.
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This ensures an irenic and objective approach to acontroversialsubjectwhich has almost always been bedevilled by lack of charity and by high emotion.
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Yet here is a fine study, meticulously documented and researched, scrupulously fair in dealing with itscontroversialsubject, and surely destined to become a standard work in the field.
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The reader will be attracted not by an abstract andcontroversialsubject, but by a clear exposition of lively stories of human communities in one region of the world.
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This work exhibits a level-headed and judicious approach to an otherwisecontroversialsubjectthat has been dealt with di^erently depending on the political and religious loyalties of the authors.
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Jones et al. tackle thecontroversialsubjectof a possible relationship between giant impact and the generation of volcanism.
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Light dues therefore remained acontroversialsubjectin the 1830s.
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He then turned to the good oldcontroversialsubjectof chairmen's salaries.
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It is implied that some goodcontroversialsubjectsuch as fishing limits would come within that category.
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Unfortunately, it is acontroversialsubjectfor a maiden speech, when one is expected to be neutral.
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She said that illegitimate children might be acontroversialsubjectfor a maiden speech.
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The mass start race is, as anybody who knows anything about cycling politics knows, a very thorny andcontroversialsubject.
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I do not want to go into thecontroversialsubjectof profit sharing versus nationalisation.
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He dealt with acontroversialsubjectin a cleverly non-controversial way.
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I know that airships are acontroversialsubject.
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I know that this is acontroversialsubject—some argue that such a figure is unachievable, but others maintain that it can be realised.
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Water charges have become a highlycontroversialsubjectand now it seems that important decisions affecting the public are to be reached behind closed doors.
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This is acontroversialsubjectand it is proper that both sides of the argument should be aired.
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