11.   As political controversies go, this is small beer, but it fits a self-destructive pattern for the Virginia Republicans.

12.   As they move outside the courtroom and into the realm of policy, antitrust enforcers also often find themselves wading into domestic and international political controversies.

13.   ABC argued that Lundell qualified as a public figure because its recycling machinery was involved in a broader political controversy about trash disposal problems in a rural Georgia county.

14.   But Alterman said he found much of the political controversy around the song silly.

15.   But even it was not entirely free of political controversy.

16.   But in the last few years, the camps and trailer parks have also become the object of growing political controversy.

17.   But she stuck to platitudes and tiptoed around political controversies about the best way to improve the public schools.

18.   But, as is obvious today, it did little to quell the political controversies surrounding sensitive government investigations.

19.   Campaign finance experts say current laws promote the kind of secrecy that often produces political controversy.

20.   Closer to winter, rising heating fuel prices are likely to generate political controversy, much as gasoline prices have done recently.