"Sharp disagreement" refers to a situation where two or more people strongly disagree with each other, and their viewpoints or opinions clash significantly.
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Despite
sharp disagreements on their ratings of the overall merits of different gun laws, the two groups of experts were often not far apart in their estimates of the likely effects of laws.
A high - profile teacher evaluation agreement was but days old Friday when Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the district's teachers union expressed
sharp disagreement over a contentious provision.
As the first deadline for the Every Student Succeeds Act arrives, there have been
sharp disagreements between advocacy groups and state - level politicians on key policy decisions.
Following the 1975 Nairobi assembly, at which there were
sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion of social ethics.
Such sharp disagreement is understandable, since the subject involves man's central relation to God, and since, as we have seen, man's very nature is determined by his relation to God.
«George H.W. Bush called Ronald Reagan's policies «voodoo economics,» they had
very sharp disagreements, and they ended up being running mates,» he said.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change removed a reference to indirect land - use change, a point that
provoked sharp disagreement in the final Working Group III «Summary for Policymakers» report released yesterday.
Sharp disagreements over handling sexual misconduct investigations, a single - payer health care bill and other issues of style and substance have driven a wedge between the Senate and Assembly.
While there are
sharp disagreements on the best way to improve education for children from low - income homes, most Americans accept that doing so is an important societal objective.
In the United States, there can be
sharp disagreements among textualists and purposivists about what counts as a good argument, and thus what makes an interpretation «clear» or «unreasonable.»
My column this week on the positive aspects of the CRTC's usage based billing decision has generated
some sharp disagreement, with some arguing that the pricing set by the Commission is faulty and virtually guaranteed to increase consumer prices (Search Engine covers the issue and arrives at the same conclusion, Peter Nowak does as well).
These groups, which often have
sharp disagreements with one another over leadership, tactics and basic theoretical orientation, are united only in that they have lost confidence in the leading churches — and never had it in the more «evangelistic» missions.
And they had
sharp disagreements.
Sharp disagreements over the lateness of the budget and final components of the budget are, sources say, poised to spill over well into the end of session in June.
However, in
a sharp disagreement with his Health Commissioner and the BSUTH CMD, Governor Samuel Ortom told State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday that one person had contracted the deadly disease in the state.
In what appeared as a reservation for what the budget entails was
a sharp disagreement that ensued between Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and that of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in no distant time into the debate.
After the meeting reportedly ended in a deadlock, it was also learnt that there was
a sharp disagreement among the governors over the choice of date to reconvene.
Puerto Rican leaders are embroiled in
a sharp disagreement over whether the island commonwealth should continue to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an exam in which their students have struggled.
Thus, next year many issues will be decided in an atmosphere echoing the campaign's
sharp disagreements.
Still, Mr. White, like thousands of educators around the country, has spent months making calls and knocking on doors, trying to persuade voters to support a president with whom he has
sharp disagreements on a host of issues central to his profession.