21.   The case caused considerable public controversy in Britain.

22.   The debate has split City Hall and brought about a rare public controversy.

23.   The Globe argued that it could not be found liable because it was accurately reporting on a matter of public controversy.

24.   The instigator is Harvey C. Mansfield, a political philosopher whose soft-spoken manner belies a taste for public controversy.

25.   The issue became a public controversy earlier this month when black students demanded an apology for a cartoon drawn with racially offensive caricatures.

26.   The program has not generated much public controversy.

27.   The stories that have generated the most public controversy are always the stories, like Princess Di and Monica Lewinsky, that attract the full media spectrum.

28.   There was public controversy surrounding a red dye, but not the one Mars used.

29.   Though the public controversy is fresh, its private trail is long.