Sentences with phrase «acrimonious meeting»

The vote followed an acrimonious meeting, where commissioners appointed by the Assemblys peaker demanded a public discussion of the deliberations, and called the governor's threats to open his own investigation «coercive.»

It failed, during a sometimes acrimonious meeting on Nov. 15, to decide whether legislators should receive a salary increase.

Cognisant of these challenges, yet reluctant to relinquish its most prized prisoner, the NTC understood that another acrimonious meeting with ICC defense counsel would be detrimental to its goal of trying the younger Qadhafi in Libya.

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Democratic and Republican legislative leaders engaged in an acrimonious public meeting in the Capitol with Gov. David A. Paterson.

The Senate has been unable to deliberate, has refused any outside intervention... has rarely met and only in acrimonious circumstances... I will call the New York State Senate... into extraordinary session on Tuesday.»