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Definition: CONTROVERSIES |
CONTROVERSIESPlural1. Of Controversy |
Date "CONTROVERSIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Crosswords: CONTROVERSIES |
| English words defined with "CONTROVERSIES": Barmote ♦ Deemster. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CONTROVERSIES": Dogmatic Facts ♦ HARMONISTS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CONTROVERSIES": Controversy. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Patient Care Issues: Controversies in Nursing Management : Second Annual Oncology Nursing Conference / NIH Cancer Nursing Service. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But farther, this question, (Who shall be judge?) cannot mean, that there is no judge at all: for where there is no judicature on earth, to decide controversies amongst men, God in heaven is judge. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)--between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. (reference) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | A three-judge District Court, which consolidated the actions, held that Roe and Hallford, and members of their classes, had standing to sue and presented justiciable controversies. (reference) |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms. |
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Health | Research on this condition has produced many controversies, which also were expressed at this conference. (references) | |
One of the major controversies regarding ADHD concerns the use of psychostimulants to treat the condition. (references) | ||
The theme of the Symposium will be "Current Controversies in Research in Pathogenesis and Treatment of Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders". (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | Occasional government references during controversies to speech that it considers "out-of-bounds" are understood to be implicit threats to invoke the ISA; however, these limits are not codified, and journalists and others generally believe that these limitations have shifted towards greater tolerance in recent years. (references) |
Economic History | Peru | Arbitration cannot be imposed unilaterally after the fact as a means to resolve controversies or disputes. (references) |
Bulgaria | In some cases, controversies have ensued in the post-privatization phase regarding the terms and conditions of sale. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mexico | Despite the IFE's efforts, there still were controversies at the state level over elections. (references) |
United Kingdom | In Northern Ireland the devolved institutions established under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement functioned precariously due to continuing controversies over the participation of Sinn Fein in government as long as the IRA refused to decommission its weapons. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Because a single assembly, possessed of all the powers of government, would make arbitrary laws for their own interest, execute all laws arbitrarily for their own interest, and adjudge all controversies in their own favor. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | We favor every instrumentality, like that of the Hague Tribunal and arbitration treaties made with a view to its use in all international controversies, in order to maintain peace and to avoid war. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table in advance than to a settlement table after conflict and suffering. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Especially are we determined not to become implicated in the political controversies of the Old World. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentalities for peaceful settlement of controversies. |
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| "CONTROVERSIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTROVERSIES" is used about 184 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 184 | 22,714 |
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Expression using "CONTROVERSIES": literary controversies. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CONTROVERSIES": ideas-controversies. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CONTROVERSIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 论争 (Controversy). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Kontroversen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 논쟁 (argument, barney, Contention, Contestation, Controversial, Controversy, Wrangle, Wrangling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontroversiescay literära fejder (literary controversies). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Chronicles Chapter 19, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai gar en ierousalhm katesthsen iwsafat twn ierewn kai twn leuitwn kai twn patriarcwn israhl eiV krisin kuriou kai krinein touV katoikountaV en ierousalhm |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In Hierusalem quoque constituit Iosaphat Levitas et sacerdotes et principes familiarum ex Israhel ut iudicium et causam Domini iudicarent habitatoribus eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Josaphath in Jerusalem sette Leuytis, and prestis, and princes of the meynees of Yrael, that dome and the cause of the Lord thei schulden deemyn to the dwellers of it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Moreover, in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem. |
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| Language | 2 Chronicles Chapter 19, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Labut pa gibutang ni Josaphat didto sa Jerusalem ang uban sa mga Levihanon ug ang mga sacerdote, ug ang mga pangulo sa mga kabalayan sa mga amahan sa Israel, aron sa paghukom alang kang Jehova, ug alang sa paghusay sa mga pagkabingkil. Ug sila namalik ngadto sa Jerusalem. |
| Croatian | Jošafat postavi levite, sveæenike i poglavare izraelskih obitelji u Jeruzalemu da izrièu Jahvine sudove i da presuðuju u sporovima. Oni su živjeli u Jeruzalemu |
| Danish | Også i Jerusalem indsatte Josafat nogle af Leviterne, Præsterne og Overhovederne for Israels Fædrenehuse til at dømme i HERRENs Sager og i Stridigheder mellem Jerusalems Indbyggere. |
| Dutch | Daartoe stelde Josafat ook te Jeruzalem enige van de Levieten, en van de priesteren, en van de hoofden der vaderen van Israel, over het gericht des HEEREN, en over rechtsgeschillen, als zij weder te Jeruzalem gekomen waren. |
| Finnish | Myöskin Jerusalemiin Joosafat asetti leeviläisiä, pappeja ja Israelin perhekunta-päämiehiä jakamaan Herran oikeutta ja ratkaisemaan riita-asioita. Ja he palasivat Jerusalemiin. |
| French | Quand on fut de retour Jérusalem, Josaphat y établit aussi, pour les jugements de l`Éternel et pour les contestations, des Lévites, des sacrificateurs et des chefs de maisons paternelles d`Israël. |
| German | Auch bestellte Josaphat zu Jerusalem etliche aus den Leviten und Priestern und aus den Obersten der Vaterhäuser in Israel über das Gericht des HERRN und über die Streitsachen und ließ sie zu Jerusalem wohnen, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Juga di Yerusalem, Yosafat mengangkat hakim-hakim dari kalangan orang-orang Lewi, imam-imam, dan tokoh-tokoh rakyat. Mereka harus memutuskan perkara-perkara yang menyangkut pelanggaran Hukum TUHAN dan perkara-perkara lainnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tambahan pula di Yeruzalempun diangkat Yosafat akan beberapa orang Lewi dan dari pada segala imam dan dari pada segala kepala bapa-bapa orang Israel, supaya dilakukannya hukum Tuhan dan diputuskannya segala acara, maka kedudukan mereka itu adalah di Yeruzalem. |
| Maori | I whakaritea ano e Iehohapata ki Hiruharama etahi o nga Riwaiti, o nga tohunga, o nga upoko o nga whare o nga matua o Iharaira, mo ta Ihowa whakawa, mo nga tautohetohe. A hoki ana ratou ki Hiruharama. |
| Portuguese | Também em Jerusalém estabeleceu Jeosafá alguns dos levitas e dos sacerdotes e dos chefes das casas paternas de Israel sobre e juízo da parte do Senhor, e sobre as causas civis. E voltaram para Jerusalém. |
| Rumanian | Cknd s`a kntors la Ierusalim, Iosafat a pus wi aici, pentru judecqyile Domnului wi pentru neknyelegeri, Leviyi, preoyi wi cqpetenii peste casele pqrintewti ale lui Israel. |
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Misspellings | |
"CONTROVERSIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: controversa, conyroversies. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CONTROVERSIES" (pronounced kÄ"ntruver'sēz) |
| 3 | -s ē z | accuracies, agencies, archdiocese, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, competencies, conspiracies, constituencies, contingencies, courtesies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delicacies, delinquencies, democracies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, embassies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fallacies, fancies, fantasies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, privacies, prognoses, prophecies, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: retrocession. | |
-2 letters: coinvestors, intercessor, overstories. | |
-3 letters: coinvestor, conservers, contrivers, conversers, converters, convertors, corrosives, corsetries, cortisones, covertness, intercross, reconverts, resections, reversions, scriveners, secretions, ventricose. | |
-4 letters: conserver, conserves, contriver, contrives, converser, converses, converter, convertor, corrosive, cortisone, creosotes, crossover, erections, evections, eversions, inserters, inverters, invertors, investors, neoterics, oestrones, orneriest, ostensive, overstirs, overtires, overtness, overtones, recession, reconvert, rectories. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: conservatoires, conservatories, oversecretions. | |
+3 letters: interconversions. | |
+4 letters: cryopreservations, overprescriptions. | |
+5 letters: overprotectiveness. | |
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