Sentences with phrase «spats with»

Internal struggles and spats with the company's founders has led to the Nest brand being featured more regularly as a potential business page basket case than for its product innovation.

It's also had spats with Google over Nest, Google's own smart home business that's also partnered with Amazon.

Our experience so far of lay appointments is of: (a) fiscal measures (increasing fees and reducing legal aid) which have a negative impact on access to justice; and (b) unseemly spats with the Lord Chief Justice about law reform and the freedom of the press.

A recent article on FindLaw.com called Five Ways Attorneys Waste Money claimed that attorneys can cut clients» costs by avoiding needless motions, staffing cases leanly, focusing on the important issues, avoiding petty spats with the opposition, and being smart about when to settle.

Cats may meow more, avoid using the litter box, knock more things off of the shelves or have more spats with other house cats.

As opposed to Samsung's ill luck with similar matters, Motorola has managed to come out on top in several legal spats with Apple.

Yes, they've had spats with their agents.

The best Brown can come up with is a macho employee (Dondre Whitfield) who is continually getting into spats with a gay hairdresser (an annoyingly over-the-top De'Angelo Wilson).

In fact, Kepler described astronomers as «the priests of God, called to interpret the Book of Nature»; Newton acclaimed «this most beautiful [solar] system» as self - evidently the work of «an intelligent and powerful Being»; Galileo, for all his spats with Jesuit theologians, hungered for the approval of the Pope; Francis Bacon wanted a new age of Christianity in a new technological Eden; and Einstein famously said «the aspiration towards truth and understanding... springs from the sphere of religion».

The NY Post calls on Cuomo to «end his monkey business» in the form of repeated public spats with de Blasio, «before it does real harm.»

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

My call for Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy, to spend less time manufacturing political spats with the SNP, by going on overseas junkets, and more time fighting for the people of East Renfrewshire seems, somehow, to have been cut from the story.

He did however have many disputes with star players in his final year, with Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Pepe and even Cristiano Ronaldo all having spats with the manager at some stage.

It's difficult to remember a time when Ibrahimovic couldn't command the starting role as a lone striker, and his spats with Pep Guardiola over the issue at Barcelona led to a break down and subsequent move away from the Nou Camp.

Battles with the NCAA over satellite camps, Jordan Brand partnerships, Twitter spats with rivals, climbing trees, sleepovers and 24 - hour news coverage of what Harbaugh is doing today seems like ancient history.

Patrick Vieira had a lot of spats with him but I also played midfield.

His spats with Costa are great fun.

Asked whether he regretted many of his spats with Wenger, which were often characterised by the strength of Mourinho's response, he was dismissive.

Current United manager Jose Mourinho had several spats with Wenger during his time at Chelsea but said today he hopes Wenger will continue to manage elsewhere.

Well, Arsene shouldn't be setting up long - running spats with other managers in order to be able to brush them off whenever it suits him.

The final straw in Bradley's turbulent 2 1/2 - year stint in Cleveland — which included several spats with Wedge — came on March 31 during spring training, when Wedge thought that Bradley did not run out a second - inning pop - up quickly enough.

But the exit was so sudden and concluded such a run of immature behavior in Knoxville (a wide range of minor NCAA violations, public spats with veteran coaches like Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer, a wrecked Lexus, and so forth) that it had UT fans losing their minds in public.

Whether he responds again remains to be seen, but he'll surely be better off ensuring there's a successful end to the campaign rather than getting involved in spats with pundits.

It has been a somewhat controversial year for Keane having released his biography «The Second Half», which disclosed spats with former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and many others.

Matthaus has a history of spats with the striker, and has piped up again to criticise him for blaming others rather than himself.

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

The announcement comes as American Airlines (AMR) has had a number of spats with other search sites.

The U.S. is involved in trade spats with those economies.

Having weathered its previous spat with Russia over Syria in April, the White House may now be betting on Assad simply backing down.

«Mix spit with dirt,» she advises.

China is off to a strong start in 2018 and any trade spat with the U.S. would not be felt until later in the year or in 2019, says Kelvin Lau of Standard Chartered Bank.

The trade spat with the U.S. is a concern, but China's strong savings and quality growth are positive factors, says Thomas Poullaouec of T. Rowe Price.

(Lattner's predecessor, Sterling Anderson, got into a legal spat with the company after he left to form his own self - driving car startup, Aurora Innovation.

Last year, the billionaire even engaged in a brief Twitter spat with Fortune (including blocking Fortune «s primary Twitter account) over its reporting in the wake of a Tesla driver's fatal crash and Musk's post-crash sale of Tesla shares in a public offering.

Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

China will not hesitate to fight back if the United States escalates its trade spat with Beijing, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, asserting that Chinese President Xi Jinping's pledge to cut import tariffs is not a concession to Washington.

Tesla Inc.'s ongoing spat with the National Transportation Safety Board over a fatal crash has reached new heights, with the electric - car maker and the safety agency releasing dueling statements.

The spat with Tinder threatens to bankrupt 3nder, which raised a small $ 500,000 seed round last year from an unnamed investor, and its users» $ 13 monthly membership fees.

Last year, Dan got in a public spat with a Globe and Mail critic.

But the entrepreneur has also exhibited erratic behavior in recent months, from late - night tweets and jokes about bankruptcy to a public spat with regulators investigating a fatality involving a Tesla.

Running a coffee - and - bagel operation seems simple enough, but Restaurants Brand International has been in a spat with its Tim Hortons» franchisees...

Qualcomm does have one bright spot: its long - running spat with Apple may be coming to a head.

Regulators picked products China can get elsewhere when they made a $ 50 billion list including soybeans and small aircraft for possible retaliation in a trade spat with Washington.

China has instructed two Northeastern provinces to expand their soybean cultivation area, which analysts said will help the country in its trade spat with the US.

Silver Wheaton is in the midst of a tax spat with the Canadian government.

Running a coffee - and - bagel operation seems simple enough, but Restaurants Brand International has been in a spat with its Tim Hortons» franchisees that's threatening to damage the Canadian brand's stellar reputation.

Dietary supplements company Herbalife will add two new members to its board of directors at the request of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has backed the company in a public spat with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.

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BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters)- China is taking extra efforts to increase its soybean output this year amid an ongoing trade spat with the United States that threatens to curb imports from its second supplier.

China is evaluating the potential impact of a gradual yuan depreciation, people familiar with the matter said, as the country's leaders weigh their options in a trade spat with U.S. President Donald Trump that has roiled financial markets worldwide.

In 2014, he engaged in a public spat with Ron Liepert when the former finance minister defeated long - time MP Rob Anders for the Conservative nomination in Calgary - Signal Hill.