Sentences with phrase «shootings over disputes»

This might seem ridiculous, but consider that there have been shootings over disputes about cheeseburgers and tacos.

Not exact matches

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

He noted that, in the previous weeks, he had dealt with a minor crisis over a US spy plane shot down by the Soviets, negotiations with the US about stationing Polaris submarines in the Clyde, fishery disputes with Iceland, alarmist Treasury papers on the economy, the reconstruction of the cabinet and a decision to build the new liner Queen Elizabeth II.

A week before that on December 13th the Daily News reported that half of the shootings within the City are gang related, mostly over petty disputes.

Making an extra effort to image a faint, gigantic corkscrew traced by fast protons and electrons shot out from a mysterious microquasar paid off for a pair of astrophysicists who gained new insights into the beast's inner workings and also resolved a longstanding dispute over the object's distance.

Shot in New York in 2005, Kenneth Lonergan's comic morality tale became bogged down for years in a bitter legal dispute over its length before eventually getting released in 2011.

The dispute appears to have arisen over reports that the Scottish director was waiting to receive an approved schedule, script or budget as the beginning of the shoot loomed.

And Ron Howard took over directing duties after The LEGO Movie filmmakers Chris Miller and Phil Lord were fired midway through the shoot amid creative disputes with Lucasfilm.

It can't be overstated how important hair is for black and mixed race people; frizzy hair is something that sets us apart from other children and adults - there have been many disputes over «work appropriate» black hair; there's the ever - present annoyance of white people wanting to touch it or police it - so the shots of Bianca's hair aren't insignificant.

Three Muslim students in North Carolina were shot to death on Tuesday by a neighbor over what police are describing as a parking dispute.

Shots fired in the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette in the US over profit margins on ebooks: so little faith does the online retail behemoth appear to have in resolving the situation quickly that, in a post on its Kindle forum earlier this week, it recommended that anyone in urgent need of a Hachette title «purchase a new or used version from one of our third - party sellers or from one of our competitors.»

A long - simmering land dispute boiled over in June 1860, when William was shot and killed by an irate neighbor.

The possibility is raised that one of the squatters — the father of two young children — was recently shot in a dispute over land.

The gesture was intended as a shot at a state senator whose friendship with Sprague fell apart in a dispute over legal fees, the paper says.

The High Court held in favour of singer Rihanna last week over a passing off dispute with retailer Topshop about a T - shirt featuring a photo of the star taken during a video shoot in 2011, in Robin Rihanna Fenty v Arcadia Group Brands [2013] EWHC 2310 (Ch).

An ongoing dispute over parking may have motivated a shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., which ended in the deaths of three people, police said Wednesday.

Also, a Florida real estate agent shoots another sales rep in the chest in a dispute over a listing.

While researching trolley rage, I came across a AAA Foundation report that revealed: «Motorists involved in fender - bender collisions and silly traffic disputes are increasingly being shot, stabbed, beaten, and run over for inane reasons.