Sentences with phrase «bitter disputes»

In my experience Mediation is an incredibly effective tool for resolving even the most bitter disputes»

The launch comes as Uber struggles with legal setbacks, workplace harassment scandals, driver protests, the firing of co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick and bitter disputes amongst its board.

While family law can sometimes create bitter disputes, attorney Lisa Lane McDevitt wanted her web visitors to feel at home, surrounded by a warm design.

A breach of trust in construction law can lead to bitter disputes.

The judgments in the courts increasingly emphasise the damage done by the legal costs (over # 1m in the case of Mr and Mrs Fields) and the use of court time taken by such bitter disputes.

With the exception of an unnameable region bordering on the Eastern Mediterranean, posts on diet and exercise seem to promote more bitter disputes than any others.

In cities across the country, charter schools have become known for anxiety - fueled lotteries, bitter disputes over sharing buildings with traditional schools and teaching methods that are sometimes unorthodox.

Based at NPR West's studios in Culver City, CA, but frequently roaming the country, Siegler's reporting has also focused on the far - reaching economic impacts of the drought in the West while explaining the broader, national significance to many of the region's complex and bitter disputes around land use.

John Ford had several bitter disputes with RKO Pictures while making The Plough and the Stars, especially after the studio re-shot several scenes with another director to tone down the film's politics; while he distributed several independent productions through the studio, he never shot another picture for RKO.

Several bitter disputes occurred, but both parties determined to remain within the Episcopal Church, and they did so.

More significant in the bitter dispute over control of Woodside are plans for the two Timor Sea provinces.

President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country's economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse the increasingly bitter dispute with the United States and possibly open the way for the start of negotiations after both sides threatened tit - for - tat tariffs.

Bitter dispute grows as Great White North Franchisee Association says it's not the «small group of disgruntled store owners RBI would have you believe»

That simple question is often lost among the many controversies facing the ride - services company as it tries to hire a new chief executive and resolve a bitter dispute with the old one, Travis Kalanick.

Western Digital, which jointly operates Toshiba's main chip plant but is now in a bitter dispute with the conglomerate over whether the auction can proceed without its consent, was not included.

These events reflect the shape and complexity of what is fast becoming a source of bitter dispute and misunderstanding among Indians, spiritual seekers and their often well - meaning but uninformed allies and supporters.

The Guardian: Peru university in Vatican battle over right to call itself Catholic The Vatican is locked in a bitter dispute with one of South America's top universities in a row that has resurrected ideological differences within the Catholic church long thought to have been consigned to cold war history.

In spite of this, we catch a glimpse of women and men, responding to what they sensed was a new movement inaugurated by a man from Galilee, a man who tried to break so many of the social conventions of his time, a response informed by the possibility of change and transformation, even though what he «actually taught often became a matter of bitter dispute....»

Yet during this time, Cairns says now, he «was still very far from establishing my life as prayer» Not too many years ago, after a rather bitter dispute at work, he started to pray in earnest: «I began an actual «rule» of prayer.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

A bitter dispute over a proposed four - story parking garage in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side hinges in part on differing takes on Sheridan Road and its history.

A bitter dispute between London and Moscow dominates the agenda.

Work will put up temporary signs, modified signs and sign coverings throughout Yosemite National Park to reflect the new names assigned to some of the most popular attractions as a bitter dispute among the National Park Service, outgoing concessionaire Delaware North, of Buffalo, and the incoming vendor Aramark shows no sign of easing.

Former Liberal party leader David Steel has said Rennard's apology should bring an end to a bitter dispute about his conduct.

In a news conference heard live on WBFO Wednesday, Governor Cuomo and Gary Doer, the Canadian ambassador to the United States, announced a deal that ends a bitter dispute over operation of the bridge.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Construction on the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum has «come basically to a halt» because of a bitter dispute over $ 300 million in cost overruns that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday is on the verge of ending up in court.

The finding is the latest chapter in a bitter dispute over the interpretation of «Indus script».

WE have dog years, financial years and calendar years, but a quest to get geologists and chemists to agree on a scientific year has led to a surprisingly bitter dispute.

DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

One long - running and very bitter dispute involved the work of anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, known to generations of students for Yanomamo: The Fierce People, an ethnography of a tribe in the Amazonian jungle.

Spectators, scientific and otherwise, have followed this bitter dispute with fascination but the fight is destructive — and far from over.

Detailed study of the cave has yet to begin but it has already become the object of a bitter dispute between two leading French specialists in prehistory.

According to a Nature News report, operations director Robert Kerr has resigned after a bitter dispute with the National Science Foundation over funding cuts.

Platt's first master, William Ford (the ever - present Benedict Cumberbatch), is relatively enlightened by slave owner standards, but even he can only do so much when Platt gets into a bitter dispute with a thoroughly racist overseer (an adept Paul Dano).

French cuisine is celebrated in Step up to the Plate, an impressive documentary on a three - Michelin starred restaurant in the south of France while French wine culture is dramatically explored in You will be my Son when a bitter dispute breaks out over the inheritance of a famous vineyard.

Clearly invoking Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan is a fairly clear - eyed look at the State of Things in today's Russia, encapsulated in a bitter dispute between hotheaded mechanic Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov)-- who lives in a house overlooking the coastal town with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and teenage son by a previous marriage — and the corrupt local mayor who has obtained legal authorization to appropriate Kolia's land and demolish his home to make way for a vaguely described «communications center» for the town.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

In Philadelphia, the district tried to reconstitute two high schools this summer, only to be foiled in a bitter dispute with the teachers» union.

In a joint statement Monday, Bullis Charter School and the Los Altos School District announced a tentative agreement that would potentially resolve a long - running and bitter dispute over facilities.

Third, he said that «ADR can frequently take the rough edges off of adversarial proceedings * * * When one is engaged in a bitter dispute, one may lose sight of the greater purpose.»

It's been a tumultuous year for Amazon.com, which suffered a significant hit to its public image as a result of its prolonged and bitter dispute with veteran publisher Hachette.

The Seattle, Washington - based Amazon and Penguin, which is owned by media group Pearson PLC of Britain, have been locked in a bitter dispute over digital book prices which saw Penguin stop supplying Amazon with new titles last month, much to the chagrin of Kindle owners wanting to buy best sellers.

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Both Apple and Samsung has been locked in a bitter dispute since April of this year and has met in courtrooms of nine countries in a case where Apple has accused the South Korean conglomerate of having copied the look and feel of its iPad tablets.

The pair, Jason West and Vincent Zampella, who played key roles in the development of the multibillion - dollar military shooter franchise Call of Duty, have been embroiled in a bitter dispute with their former employer, Activision Blizzard Inc., which fired them a month ago in a move that shook the industry with the force of a rocket - propelled grenade.

The former barrister and journalist's astonishing political comeback is a complete turnaround from his situation six years ago, when he was dumped as party leader for Mr Abbott in bitter dispute over climate change policy.

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Out of Lincoln University in rural Pennsylvania comes the type of story you just can't make up, and that is sure to end in some kind of terribly bitter dispute.

The latest developments in the Virginia Roberts case reveal how bitter the dispute has become.

The debate over the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline has reached interprovincial proportions with Alberta and British Columbia locked in a bitter dispute.