Why is this remotely controversial?

This movie is highly controversial.

This theory is very controversial.

This is a more controversial one.

NHS to prescribe controversial HIV drug to 10,000

The Genome Project was a controversial project in 1990.

And I was doing some rather controversial religious programs.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has run a controversial campaign.

When this result was first published, it was highly controversial.

It was very controversial to say three, four, five years ago.

I think that's probably right, although this is a controversial issue.

We didn't know we could pull it off it was very controversial.

Which was very controversial, but it resonated with a lot of people.

However, the involvement of TNCs in public utilities is controversial (UNCTAD 2004).

What I'm going to show you next are a couple of controversial ideas.

We thank the Secretary General for his thought provoking, and inevitably controversial, report.

Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

The broadest possible agreement cannot be achieved through a divisive and controversial vote.

Well, this turned out to be probably the most controversial claim in the book.

Photography can also compel us to confront issues that are potentially distressing and controversial.

And in time, my views went from controversial to more or less consensus today.

Finally, the resolution's operative section contains controversial and ambiguous language open to arbitrary manipulation.

The question of the legal nature of the rules of the organization is controversial.

Now, in one sense, the claim that history has a direction is not that controversial.

Since its adoption in the 1994 ICPD in Cairo, abortion has become a controversial issue.

The nature of the report to be submitted by the Council had also proved controversial.

Executions by guerrilla forces were a controversial issue that he hoped to examine more closely.

The Court ruled that the issue was controversial and, thus, there is need for legislative involvement.

Third, a large group of treaties remains with an emerging, controversial or varied likelihood of applicability.

Articles on controversial topics are edited a lot, but they don't cause much controversy within the community.

Yes, these are controversial policies. Debt forgiveness raises thorny ethical concerns about condoning reckless and irresponsible behavior.

However, the issues of extraterritorial jurisdiction and the definition of the scope of brokering activities remain controversial.

Let me say parenthetically why I think that's the case, because I think it's a potentially controversial statement.

That doesn't seem terribly shocking although it's controversial for a lot of people that we are self interested.

Such measures were highly controversial and should be well regulated so that States would not use them indiscriminately.

I recognize that the topic of donor obligations is controversial and not one that has any easy answers.

Votes could also be called on other controversial issues that are currently under consideration in your consultative process.

One more subject. Genetically engineered food crops, in my view, as a biologist, have no reason to be controversial.

While this practice remains controversial, it is tolerated by investors as long as differentials in voting rights are disclosed.

This is a controversial topic and one which requires sensitivity and openness on the part of all interested stakeholders.

So we do have edits by anonymous users, which is one of the most controversial and intriguing things about Wikipedia.

Perhaps due in part to this practice, subsidiary bodies rarely raised controversial and consequential issues when reporting to the Council.

It's the last day of President Erdogan's controversial visit to Germany which is aimed at repairing relations beteen the NATO allies.

On possible approaches to controversial items, several participants expressed their concern at stalemates over agenda items and items held in abeyance.

The Working Group approved the substance of paragraph (1), noting that the provision itself was not controversial (A CN.9 508, para.