Football fans and analysts for years have called for the introduction of video replays to allow referees to review controversial calls.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Tehran is under pressure both at home, over the disputed presidential election in June, and abroad,for its controversial nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

The airing of the controversial program caused outrage in Tel Aviv and is the latest strain on relations between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Public awareness is another part of the campaign. A controversial advertisement on television and billboards shows and asks which one deserves to die.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

But the deal is extremely controversial in South Korea, and the vote was not the first time the debate has gotten emotional or physical.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

The power structure in Kandahar is led by President Hamid Karzai's controversial half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, with alleged links to drug trade and local militias.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

And when it got around to the train station, it made a controversial call.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

In addition the prime minister has been criticized for supporting a controversial anti-missile defense system that the United States considers building in the Czech Republic and Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Bhutto, U.S.drone attacks on militants in Pakistan's tribal areas, the ineffective U.S.aid program and U.S.support for controversial generals,experts say, have generated widespread anti American feeling in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

In what critics deemed well-orchestrated political theater a controversial candidate abandoned further attempts to prevent arrest and turned himself in while a rowdy crowd of supporters cheered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"Going into 2010, it is going to be more difficult to get controversial legislation done, because Democrats in the House and in the Senate are looking at their own re-elections,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

The controversial but still powerful Afghan political figure flew home from Turkey on Monday and immediately lent support to President Karzai, which could be critical in the multi-candidate presidential race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Iranian opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have not spoken on Press TV since a controversial presidential election in June, both complain that IRIB is unfairand biased in its coverage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But rejoining has proved controversial in France with the opposition Socialist party, and even members of Mr.Sarkozy's center right Union for a Popular Majority party, opposing the move, fearing France's independence will erode.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11