(Earlier this year in May, Global Voices wrote about Mozambique's controversial plan.)

This reversal is consistent with the pattern established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze China temporarily suspends a controversial plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.

The controversial photos

Controversial in the present. And controversial to describe things what happened in the past.

The students argued that the controversial plan to expand Addis Ababa into Oromia state would result in mass evictions of farmers mostly from the Oromo ethnic group.

For example, in 2006 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors considered a controversial zoning plan to limit the number of motor vehicle parking spaces available in new residential developments.

Yes, these are controversial policies.

Economic engagement is more controversial.

Such policies have been controversial.

The Project has proven controversial.

But then came some controversial demands.

The Japanese intervention was immediately controversial.

The controversial nomination of 'Doctor No'

Several netizens tweeted about the controversial series.

Its opinion on abortion is nevertheless quite controversial.

I think the term is controversial for sure.

He pursued a controversial course in foreign policy.

Latuff himself has described his work as controversial.

These views have been controversial in the community.

Second, wealth transfers to peripheral countries, while controversial, are necessary.

Uganda re tabled a similar controversial anti gay bill recently.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police's controversial Facebook post has been removed.

The position of the pteroid bone itself has been controversial.

And no vote should be forced on controversial draft resolutions.

Roosevelt s first case, against Northern Securities in 1902, was immensely controversial.

One was put forward by the controversial Muslim activist Tariq Ramadan.

The project will be as difficult as it will be controversial.

Morsi brooked little opposition in pushing through a controversial draft constitution.

Historically, the first question was controversial, at least in academic circles.

Tunisian media and human rights activist Sami Ben Gharbia was interrogated for six hours on May 3 by Tunisian authorities who asked him about his role in the release of the presidency's action plan on a controversial economic reconciliation draft law.

We didn't know we could pull it off it was very controversial.

But posting the Afghan war reports was its most controversial move yet.

Patil, on the other hand, is a controversial figure, with questionable qualifications.

Several controversial provisions included in the government s last budget are being reviewed.

This is also extensively used in a controversial episode of South Park .

Several controversial laws have been passed in the history of the country.

However, the involvement of TNCs in public utilities is controversial (UNCTAD 2004).

Most controversial of all has been Europe s last dictator, Belarusan President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Aron and Sartre developed contrasting, but equally controversial, styles of destroying received belief.

The backlash against Poland's controversial legislation is no longer restricted to Poles, either.

Her elimination from the show, which occurred in the seventh episode, was controversial.

We thank the Secretary General for his thought provoking, and inevitably controversial, report.

Those negotiations made concrete progress last year in some difficult and controversial areas.

The broadest possible agreement cannot be achieved through a divisive and controversial vote.

Photography can also compel us to confront issues that are potentially distressing and controversial.