Sentences with phrase «bitter fighting»

There can be bitter fights over who gets the car, the couch, and how much time and when each party can spend with the child or children.

As the Tremont Tribune reported in June, CIR / SEIU Healthcare had been engaged in bitter fight with St. Barnabas Hospital, whose administration has been blocking resident doctors» attempts to unionize.

As I write, Syrian Kurds in Kobane are engaged in bitter fighting against IS forces.

Bitter fight for Coopers coming to a head Coopers, the South Australian brewer currently the target of a takeover bid from Lion Nathan, has called an extraordinary general meeting where shareholders

And President Obama is expected to sign the new version, ending an era marked by bitter fights between the federal government, states and schools.

The most bitter fight in Albany could come on education reform.

After an interminable primary season and what looks to be a fairly bitter fight in the Fall, they'll be primed for action — and besides the individual list members, tens of thousands of «super-volunteers» will be trained to organize people locally.

Albany for months has been roiled by bitter fighting and accusations of dirty tricks.

Several members participated in a conference call Wednesday night to vent about the new speaker, who was elected by a unanimous vote of the body on Jan. 8, after weeks of an intense and sometimes bitter fight with her top rival in the election, Dan Garodnick of Manhattan.

Traditional court divorce is only one option In fact more and more people today are choosing some form of alternative dispute resolution in order to keep matters private, reduce costs, and replace bitter fighting with a more respectful process.

Perhaps the biggest and most bitter fight within Labour is set to be that over the question of Trade Union influence.

Stock says the debate between agriculture and oil interests over ethanol has been needlessly divisive, and that the EPA under Pruitt should instead turn its focus to «second - generation» biofuels that do not provoke such bitter fights.

His tenure included bitter fights with the scientific community over the technology behind Reagan's anti-ballistic missile Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), on the one hand.

His age matters because it gives him access to that fragile, fleeting moment before a child breaks away from his mother, the pain of which, as the film reminds us in uncompromisingly bitter fights and tense close - ups, is all too easily dulled through distance.

They are not planning to surrender their beachhead without a long and bitter fight despite their setbacks from the election.

After months of bitter fighting over the future of computer maker Dell Inc., Carl Icahn said in a sharply worded letter Monday that he was giving up.

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This led to clogged - up dockets and bitter fighting between bosses and the rank - and - file.

In fact, more and more people today are choosing some form of collaborative divorce or California «no court» divorce in order to keep matters private, reduce costs and replace bitter fighting with a more respectful process.

«This was fairly bitter fight but circumstances on the ground tend to dictate who your political allies are,» said Thies.

Some of the most bitter fighting has taken place in the University of California system, where nearly all of the student government councils have approved divestment proposals.

The DMZ, which snakes for 240 km (150 miles) along the 38th parallel, was drawn in the 1953 armistice that ended three years of bitter fighting.

In Congress, the attack has spurred yet another bitter fight over gun control, exposing deep frustration among supporters of stricter gun laws that no level of mass casualty seems to be enough to force gun control opponents to reconsider.

Amanat — whose attorney didn't get back to us on Tuesday — was involved in a bitter fight with Doronin over ownership of Aman Resorts after their partnership shattered, with the Russian - born mogul calling Amanat a «serial swindler.»

Trump's comments, delivered at a White House news conference, illustrate the political minefield he will navigate in September as he tries to draw support for disaster recovery funds but wages a bitter fight with lawmakers from both parties about whether U.S. taxpayers should finance the creation of a wall that he has long promised Mexico would fund.

We now see her in a new light, as a strong woman who can identify and be with today's grieving mothers, wives and daughters in the bitter fight for freedom.41

Just when you were starting to get used to no bitter fighting, mudslinging or hand - wringing from the White House, here comes the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church recovered its legal status, leading to bitter fights with the Russian Orthodox Church over historical injustices and control of parishes and monasteries.

Almost every Church had a bitter fight over it, and the three largest and most influential groups split over it.

In the latest skirmish in Australia's five - year - old milk war, some of the nation's most popular milk brands are heading to the Federal Court in a bitter fight over the rights to use the term «A2 protein» on their labels.

O'Malley made the T - shirt the medium for his message because the Yankee owner sent shirts reading BOWIE»S BOBO to Kuhn supporters during the bitter fight over his ouster in 1985.

After getting embroiled in a bitter fight with team - mate Sergio Perez this season, Monza marked a new start now that team orders are in effect at Force India.

As I wrote in June, a bitter fight erupted in Washington, D.C., when the School Nutrition Association (SNA)-- representing the nation's 55,000 school food professionals — decided to oppose nutrition improvements to federally subsidized school meals, claiming that districts face insurmountable challenges from too many changes happening too quickly.

Sri Lankan government forces are bringing about the final defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers, who are putting up a bitter fight as their 20 - year struggle comes to an end.

D - Day was more compelling than the bitter fight to the death, fought out in the wastes of Russia and eastern Europe, which was the centrepiece of the Second World War.

Those reluctant for change in the upper House are preparing themselves for a bitter fight to keep the Lords an appointed chamber.

We have expressed our views either way in a bitter fight.

Bharara could expect headwinds from Cuomo, too, given their bitter fight over the Moreland Commission.

The chamber confirmed Cordray on Tuesday in a 66 - 34 vote that capped a bitter fight over presidential nominations.

Below it, the page notes that he «participated in the mission to rescue Jessica Lynch after the bitter fighting at An - Nasiriyah,» Iraq.

He also acknowledged that the controversy could affect the bitter fight for control of the Senate.

It's a bitter fight.

From Cuomo's point of view, it doesn't hurt that Spectrum is engaged in a bitter fight with Local 3 IBEW, the union representing its workers, who have been on strike for more than a year.

In fact, Chiazza said, he prefers when working on a project in a town, to deal with a government that has a 6 - 1 or 5 - 0 overwhelming majority in the hands of one party or the other, either Democrats or Republicans, because then it cuts out the bitter fighting that you can have on a narrowly split board.

Yet shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told another ITV News correspondent that Mr Corbyn is «enjoying» the bitter fight between him and his MPs.

The money came as Schniederman and his Republican opponent, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, were locked in a bitter fight for the AG's office in which Donovan frequently slammed Schneiderman for being too soft on corruption.

In the Dutch west end of Long Island there was bitter fighting between the Native Americans and the Dutch.

A bitter fight involving the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two companies, and opposing camps of researchers and parents is marring the emergence of a promising therapy for children with a rare, inherited, and uniformly fatal disorder of cholesterol metabolism.

As newer, less skilled controllers step up, veterans like Nesbitt find themselves in a bitter fight with higher - ups, who say the skies are safer than ever while downplaying the errors that are mounting nationwide.