Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He never left any chance for newspaper controversies about who won the battle. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.