1.   The idea became the centre of a bitter controversy.

2.   The strike was called off, amid bitter controversy.

3.   At the same time, they have given rise to a bitter controversy among the growers.

4.   After a half-century of curiosity and bitter controversy, publication of the texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls is virtually complete.

5.   But given its location, a tannery where Auschwitz prisoners worked and died, the disco is also the subject of bitter controversy.

6.   But her second government quickly stirred the same bitter controversy as her first and ended up, in November, being ousted as her first was.

7.   Constitutional interpretation has become a matter of sharp political conflict and sometimes bitter controversy, as measured in several confirmation battles over the Supreme Court.

8.   Despite a growing movement toward openness, Pierce said, there remains bitter controversy about whether adoptees should be permitted to track down their biological parents.

9.   Even the mildest of attempts to control television content are almost certain to produce bitter controversy.

10.   Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where most of the bodies are interred, has recently been the scene of a bitter controversy.