Sentences with phrase «recent war of words»

There has been recent war of words between Soyinka and Oyinlola over chairmanship of separate boards for the UNESCO - approved centre.

Those policies were behind a recent war of words between the Trump administration and officials in New York City over its so - called sanctuary city status, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions asserting that New York was «soft on crime.»

A recent war of words with Destroyer of Worlds Ronda Rousey went something like this: Dana White spent a few months last year proclaiming that Rousey could beat Mayweather in an MMA fight.

The late - night TV host, however, argued that Trump's recent war of words with Khizr Khan stand out in particular.

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The home secretary has endured a bruising war of words with senior policemen in recent days, after she took credit for flooding London with police after last Monday's violence.

The comments come as a war of words continues to heat up around the mainline Democratic conference and the eight - member IDC, which has grown in recent months with the addition of Sens. Jesse Hamilton and, this month, Jose Peralta.

Chris Patten hit back at Grant Shapps today, branding his recent attack on the BBC «exceptionally ill judged», as the war of words between the corporation and government ministers continued.

Off topic questions included a reported plan to remove some portraits currently displayed in City Hall, the recent installation of additional fencing around Gracie Mansion, whether the CUNY adjunct professor charged with the Saturday attack on two NYPD lieutenants should be fired, a report that a commercial flight to Puerto Rico was delayed because of Mayor de Blasio's late arrival to the airport, his ongoing war of words with PBA president Pat Lynch and Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins and Cardinal Dolan's related op - ed, Gracie Mansion tours and the expected course of the NYPD response to further protests.

This exhibition traces a narrative of Schor's work since the early 90s to the present, from Semi-colon in a Flesh Comma (1994) which punctuates the text of the female body, and Undue — a section of War Frieze, her major 1991-1994 200 - running feet long multiple canvas work on militarism and aggression, painted in the aftermath of the first Gulf War but still as timely today — through representations of the nature of artmaking itself — the sign, the trace — to the empty thought balloon when grief has left the artist at a loss for words, to her most recent works schematically figuring the artist as thinker, reader, writer in an uncertain world.

But there were two recent, specific things that made him realise just what a mortal threat freedom of speech faces in the modern era and that he would have to dust down his Mill, reread his Voltaire, and up the ante in his war of words against, as he puts it, the transformation of the state into «the arbiter of what might be thought».

The word «geek» has stopped being an offensive term in recent years, thanks to the massive popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and of superhero movies in general, plus the return of Star Wars.