11.   Others try to think of a graceful straddle that might soothe swing voters, who are likely to bristle when it explodes as a national controversy.

12.   Recently, seminary trustees provoked a national controversy when they fired President Russell Dilday, a critic of the conservative movement.

13.   Reformulated gasoline has sparked national controversy because one component of the fuel can contaminate ground water.

14.   Sentencing for crack has stirred a major national controversy.

15.   She said she thought the national office was punishing her for refusing to turn the case into a national controversy.

16.   That player was not Nykesha Sales, the University of Connecticut All-American who ignited a national controversy when she did something similar two weeks ago.

17.   That move erupted into a national controversy and ultimately helped push the company, Shintech, to another site upriver.

18.   The deepening national controversy over school vouchers reaches the Supreme Court this week in the most important education case there in years.

19.   The high court case represented the second time in recent days that the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes have been involved in national controversies.

20.   The national controversy between the establishment that runs public schools and social conservatives is playing out in Kansas.