In 2005, the Muhammad cartoon controversy sparked worldwide controversy and rioting.

So far, despite several injurious ring defeats, three divorces, worldwide controversy, serious illness and many financial setbacks, he has been protected.

It is thus being swept up in the worldwide controversy over agricultural biotechnology.

When a group of Danish imams travelled to the Middle East with the cartoons, the affair exploded into a worldwide cultural controversy.

Garibaldi's arrest in 1862 set off worldwide controversy.

Issued in the spring, the report included a warning of a worldwide controversy over the desirability of big medical and DNA databases.

The book is "Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943" by Paul de Man, a collection whose contents have already stirred worldwide controversy.

Both of these books aroused worldwide controversy.

A worldwide controversy followed.

There was worldwide controversy.