The Act was fairly controversial at the time, as the British people were suspicious of Prince Albert and he was generally unpopular in Parliament.

The building's height was fairly controversial at the time.

The paragraph IV certification proved to be fairly controversial in the efforts to get the bill passed.

You staked out a fairly controversial position in the wake of Sept. 11, didn't you?

He presented a fairly controversial argument that since he was interested in teenage boys, he should be entitled to pornographic material relating to his sexual interests.

LEO: In fact, that's a fairly controversial issue because law enforcement currently doesn't need a search warrant to ask for that information.

This Commission proposal to reform consumer protection has met with a fairly controversial reception.

On the other hand, flexibility, of which the value and necessity are fairly controversial, is systematically overestimated.

The Society was opposed to Euroscepticism, committed to electoral reform and open to green ideas, all of which were fairly controversial on the left at the time.

Mr. Cook is a scholar of Islamic history and was co-author, in the 1970's, of a fairly controversial theory about Islam's origins.