Sentences with phrase «skirmishes over»

Michael Jackson's sudden death and the skirmishes over who should be his executors, or remain so, should give you pause.

Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s — years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.

Making Peer Mediation a Part of Campus Life Teen skirmishes over rumors, perceived put - downs, and he - said - she - said arguments might seem inconsequential to adults, but to kids they can be major distractions.

The latest skirmishes over hydraulic fracturing in Florida and California are, at their core, about water.

In pretrial skirmishes over evidence such as Taub's «Miles for Meso» email, however, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, the no - nonsense ex-FBI counsel who will preside, acknowledged that prosecutors must prove Silver's intent, but noted that a witness's belief can be strong circumstantial proof.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan won a marquee battle with the Common Council to keep the city's new trash fee, but she lost three smaller skirmishes over her picks for the five - member board that runs the Albany Parking Authority.

Despite the city and state's past skirmishes over funding the NYC subway, the de Blasio administration has agreed to contribute $ 418 million towards the subway's $ 836 million emergency action plan, the New York Post reports.

And then there were eleventh hour skirmishes over charter school funding and schools in receivership.

Still, while Cameron had been the victor in initial skirmishes over the referendum itself, this had only been the beginning.

But while occasional skirmishes over things like who gets the blue marker next are normal, if a playmate is consistently being hurtful — physically or emotionally — it's time for you to step in.

CookFight is the delicious result of their brinksmanship, a chronicle of their skirmishes over the course of twelve months and a look at how two very different people — best friends from wildly divergent backgrounds — approach the kitchen.

The high - tech trade skirmishes over the past decade are close to devolving into a state of technological autarky, where foreign firms, foreign capital, and foreign researchers are banned from each other's markets.

Among other events, there's a threat of more skirmishes over the debt ceiling and another government shutdown.

The battle between the two political heavyweights is the latest skirmish over education funding since Cuomo took office two months ago.

For months, they have been engaged in an uneasy long - distance skirmish over policy and values.

A brief skirmish over a roll call vote for the rules — potentially freeing up the bound delegates — was crushed, driving yet another stake into the heart of the «Never Trump» movement.

The first is an industrial relations skirmish over cost - cutting measures, which resulted in the strike that began yesterday.

In a 4th century B.C.E. skirmish over war spoils, a lance impaled the leg of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, killing his horse and leaving the powerful ruler lame, according to ancient literary sources.

In the first legal skirmish over «intelligent design» since a federal judge declared it to be illegitimate science, a rural Southern California school system has agreed to drop an elective philosophy course presenting the highly charged topic.

«The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and «alternative facts».

An example I witnessed personally (in part) was the recent skirmish over the 2 % cap on rooftop solar here in South Carolina.

But in OFT v Foxtons Ltd [2008] EWHC 1662 (Ch), [2008] All ER (D) 234 (Jul) the estate and letting agency chain won a preliminary skirmish over the scope of the claim.

If your buyer puts up no earnest money, the buyer and seller can't skirmish over it after contract termination.

Not exact matches

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said U.S. investors should «relax» over fears that new trade penalties will spark a skirmish that could hurt the world economy.

A border war with China was fought over the territory in 1962 and skirmishes continue today.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tuesday in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Democrats criticized a Republican's plea to «keep our state straight.»

In an early skirmish in the prolonged battle over net neutrality, Martin as FCC chairman joined with Democratic members to censure Comcast Corp. for improperly interfering with customers» web traffic.

Last week's skirmish between visionary inventor Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) was entertaining if not especially nuanced or specific.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

He writes: «We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.»

We need only survey the chronic and significant differences of opinion over the systematic grounding of natural law today, as well as the extraordinarily complicated and controversial skirmish lines over questions of moral theology, to see that this is so.

As several of you have pointed out, NT Wright does indeed consider his views to be in keeping with Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and his recent debates with John Piper and company over justification are something of an internal skirmish rather than a theological divide.

Now that war is over, though to be honest the odd skirmish still occurs when I begin again to think that I am the centre.

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.

While the two teams verbally skirmished near midfield, OU's Heisman candidate QB Baker Mayfield walked over and chimed in with his spanking threat.

How can some sportswriters still insist on rating Army over Notre Dame — in view of the November 9th skirmish?»

The reaction here has been about what you'd expect, given the cultural skirmishes that still break out from time to time over actual mothers nursing actual babies in public.

Advocates came to the Capitol to lobby lawmakers, but the bill is getting bogged down over political skirmishes.

There have been a number of skirmishes between the two major party candidates over various issues, but one of the key differences between the two major party candidates is their view of the state's economy and its future.

After a legislative session in which he was able to secure a minimum wage increase, a sizable tax class aimed at the middle class and a paid - family leave program, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this summer has engaged in skirmishes with the Legislature over a variety of issues.

Mr Cameron is agonising over what to do with former London Mayor Mr Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, who have both been outspoken during the skirmishes.

She further reported that there were skirmishes at the Kwamekuma Yoruba mosque also due to some disagreement over some names in the register who they perceive to be non-members of the Party.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

«The Tories fended off attacks on their plans to give married couples a tax break as political parties engaged in angry clashes over family policy... Mr Cameron renewed his commitment to the policy, saying he wanted to send out a message that «If you take responsibility, you'll be rewarded»... As family policy took centre stage in pre general - election skirmishes, Mr Cameron said supporting marriage was an important part of his plans to tackle Britain's «broken society».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

In sun - scorched Arizona a regulatory skirmish has broken out over arrays of blue - black silicon panels on rooftops, threatening the local utilities that have ruled electricity generation for a century or more.

Males compete over females and females compete for food, but these skirmishes are usually between members of the same sex.

Male lemurs avoid skirmishes with other males by smearing their own scent over their tails.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

Looks like that skirmish between Japan and China last year over the neodymium and lanthanum required in the production of electronics has been resolved, now that Japan has stumbled over their own supplies in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.