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

In the summer of 1559 bitter controversies arose among them.

His final years in the city council featured a few bitter controversies.

Just why remains a matter of bitter controversy here.

The monograph and the paper led to "a bitter controversy".

"His job will be to try to, out of bitter controversy, find a meaningful consensus," he said.

The book has already ignited bitter controversy, and that is no surprise.

Known as Proposition 14, it caused a storm of deep and bitter controversy across the state.

But just where it should be situated is at the center of a long and bitter controversy in this otherwise peaceful community.

Bitter controversy about the best way of saving the tower caused long delays.

The work was everywhere applauded; it led, however, to a somewhat bitter controversy.

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

The Cretaceous extinction, more than any other, has prompted bitter controversy.

The work, as various parts appeared, aroused an uproar and some bitter controversy.

Bitter controversy followed on this appeal, and two more appeals followed.

In so doing, he ignited the bitter controversy that has swirled about him within the Navy ever since.

Although the strike was called off, amid bitter controversy, it did benefit the Labour Party.

But the quest for answers has reawakened a fierce and bitter controversy over Iraq policy in the 1990's.

"Not for everyone; you'd be amazed at the bitter controversies it's aroused.

The latter was the subject of bitter controversy in 2006-2007 as residents battled to keep it from being changed into an industrial estate.

During Parker's pastorate, a bitter controversy on the subject of church government divided his parish.

He also published a volume of poems, and carried on a rather bitter controversy with Kotzebue.

It caused extensive and bitter controversy, both from the literary and the historical point of view.

But the policy has been an awkward compromise, and last week, it led the Canadian church into one of the bitterest controversies in its history.

The case was heard in May 1836, after months of bitter controversy, in which both sides had their ardent supporters.