Sentences with phrase «acrimonious public»

If the grilling DeVos endured in last month's confirmation hearing is any indication, any push from within the Trump administration for greater diversity of elementary and secondary school options will end in an acrimonious public vs. private debate.

The two camps spent much of the past month in an increasingly acrimonious public relations war, as the mainstream Dems accused their former fellows of empowering the party of President Donald Trump.

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

The accusations made against him in November 2004 formed part of an acrimonious public conflict playing out in the Family Court in respect of contested Contact and Responsibility Orders.

Among them are the dangers of building a media property around a single individual — Grantland was created for and by Bill Simmons, who left ESPN in May after a series of acrimonious public battles.

Not exact matches

A real reformer is a public blessing, but his counterfeit is a hectic uplifter so zealous about saving the world at large that he himself, acrimonious, dogmatic, censorious, and altogether unlovable, has lost whatever persuasive beauty he might have had.

David Cameron has called on the coalition to provide a «strong, decisive and united government» in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for «division and navel - gazing» at a time of social and economic insecurity.

«A Prairie Home Companion» has been given a new name — «Live from Here» — in the wake of creator Garrison Keillor's acrimonious split with Minnesota Public Radio.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said an unusually acrimonious and public dispute between the city and state agencies that handle homeless services is only natural, given the state's role in overseeing the city.

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.»

Divisive, sometimes acrimonious, contention over livestock grazing on public lands has smoldered since the listing of salmon and trout species under the Endangered Species Act in the 1990s.

Her rather public (but by no means acrimonious) rejection of Disney's offer to direct Black Panther seemed to indicate a desire to eschew big budget major studio franchise filmmaking.

The process, and persistent charter claims of being short - changed, has spurred court battles, acrimonious policy debates in the state legislature and even suggestions of a massive, class - action lawsuit against traditional public schools.

Conversations about public education — where you send your kid to school, where other parents send their kids, and who gets to decide — have exploded into acrimonious bickering, full of charges and counter-charges.

The Infinity Ward Memorandum of Understanding was agreed two years before studio directors Vince Zampella and Jason West were dismissed by Activision, in a move that sparked a acrimonious and highly public lawsuit.

Despite the very public and acrimonious conflicts that were part of his time as head of the LACMA, Deitch says, «I rented the Wooster Street gallery to the Swiss Institute for five years, and figured that would cover my journey to Los Angeles.

The past couple of weeks have offered an amazing ringside view of an unusually public and acrimonious debate over software patents.

While the public health system has clearly taken some heavy hits in this Budget, Medicare has previously proved more resilient than many have predicted, outlasting much longer acrimonious political environments including eleven years under John Howard's Prime Ministership.

Every once in a while, a famous couple will have a long, public acrimonious divorce — a drawn - out courtroom drama where all the little details of their lives and finances are shared with the world.

Most divorcing couples would rather not have the details of their life on display for public inspection, especially if the divorce involves high - conflict issues, children, financial concerns or the typical mudslinging of acrimonious and adversarial litigation.