Sentences with phrase «year bickering»

JP is not 100 % accepted by everybody in statistics, and it doesn't have perfect statistical properties (there is no framework that has perfect statistical properties anywhere in statistics) but it's by far the most widely accepted option for a conventional prior, it has various nice properties, and basically it's the only chance we have for resolving this issue (the alternative is that we spend the next 30 years bickering about priors instead of discussing the real issues).

She hires the equally stubborn Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run it for her, and the two spend the next few years bickering over every little decision.

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After a year - and - a-half of bickering over the proposed Time Warner merger, AT&T and the government will finally have their day in court this week.

Albert Latner, the family patriarch who amassed a fortune in the construction business, died earlier this year, meaning that after years of bickering, the family will have to settle matters on their own.

After power changed hands in D.C. a year later, the federal government and Congress delayed picking up the baton for several months due to partisan bickering and lobbying by special interests.

In the year 1215, at a place called Runnymede, the barons of England, having paused from their usual pastime of bickering with one another, allied themselves with another brotherhood, the bishops of the Church, to checkmate their own king.

We also overhear faculty members as they bicker over whether a certain comment — made several years earlier by a candidate for a faculty position — was implicitly racist.

There's not total agreement even with hundreds of years of discussion and bickering.

And as someone who has declared this element of his game a full - on deal - breaker at various points in the past few years, I'll just say that I'm tired of bickering about it.

The amateurs from Great Britain and Ireland trounced the Americans 13 - 5 to win the Cup for the first time in 30 years, and Mochrie and Ammaccapane bickered their way to an 0 - 2 record as partners in the foursomes matches.

It was a normal evening at home: Kate * was preparing dinner, while her six - year - old daughter and nine - year - old son bickered at the table.

What they will not see is the behind - the - scenes, sometimes impudent bickering that went into completing the building — infighting that delayed the project a year and swelled the cost to more than $ 17 million from $ 12.8 million.

Very few children want their parents to be divorced, but kids who have to live with the disappointment of growing up in separate families do best when they can say that their Mom and Dad spared them years of bickering, confrontations and immature behavior.

Most couples report an increase in bickering during the first year of their baby's life.

At some point, my three - year - old son finds a way to make a huge mess dumping toys everywhere and then we argue and bicker and fight over picking them up.

Dogged by scandals and partisan bickering, state lawmakers passed the fewest number of bills in the past four years, a slowdown that state Capitol observers worry will have far - reaching consequences.

Four years ago, Freddy Ferrer squandered the dignity of the underdog, bickering with the press and foundering on gaffes.

Earlier this year, Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) bickered over whether to move the primary from September to comply with federal laws meant to ensure that military ballots were counted in a timely manner.

For years, Republicans in the State Senate, Democrats in the State Assembly, and Governor Cuomo have bickered over a package of bills known as the Women's Equality Act.

Stanley, seeking his third two - year term, was nominated by Tina Rice and seconded by his father and later spoke about how he'd first decided to run for the Shandaken's top job after figuring his hometown was «bigger than the bickering that preceded me.»

In the true essence of Albany, politicians in this nearly 400 - year - old city bargained and bickered over a host of seemingly unconnected issues as gay couples and other states watched closely for indications about which way the national debate is evolving over using the word «marriage» to describe the union between people of the same sex.

The lawmaker said she was disappointed that the normally sedate legislation, which is hashed out every five years, has descended into partisan bickering.

The union honcho has often bickered with NYPD brass, calling for then - Commissioner Bill Bratton's resignation last year and storming out of a meeting with O'Neill in October following a controversial fatal shooting of an unarmed mentally - ill woman in The Bronx.

But now, after years of bickering about which country is to blame, Iran and Afghanistan are discussing solutions.

I've kept quiet during the past year or so of high - profile science / religion bickering because I assumed there would be no use for yet another voice in the agitated crowd.

Just a year ago, a major effort to pass a tax bill that included a permanent R&D credit ended in chaos and partisan bickering on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Yesterday, after more than a year of bickering, stalling and revising, the Senate passed its most significant cybersecurity bill to date 74 — 21.

Though we'll be sad to see the singing competition go, the possibly of watching the ever - displeased Simon Cowell and the ever - positive Paula Abdul bicker again is reason enough to tune in next year.

Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, a bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten - year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus» grandson.

Content to merely spend time with its characters as they chat, bicker and strategize, the film comes off as a lackadaisical throwback oater until it reaches its climax, at which point Bone Tomahawk veers suddenly, shockingly into outright horror, replete with what may be the most chilling, unforgettable death scene of the year.

The Holy Modal Rounders (Unrated) Musical documentary recounts the unorthodox career of The Holy Modal Rounders, an obscure folk rock band which maintained a cult following for 40 - year despite bickering, addiction and other bad habits.

On the verge of divorce, Cynthia (Kristen Bell) and fussbudget Jason (Jason Bateman, so perfunctorily cast they didn't bother giving his character a different first name) beg fellow couples — family - oriented Dave (Vince Vaughn) and Ronnie (Malin Akerman); bickering Joey (Jon Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin Davis); and middle - aged divorcee Shane (Faizon Love) and his twenty - year - old paramour Trudy (Kali Hawk)-- to come along with them to a «relationship - building» island resort.

From IMDb: «Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, a bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten - year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus» grandson.

Ideal Home is both written and directed by Fleming, and is about a wealthy, bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten - year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus» grandson.

Reunited, they bicker and spar gently but take care of each other through a series of small episodes, until Eve's «sister» Ava (Mia Wasikowska) comes to stay and, stirs up the same kind of trouble that had caused them not to have seen her for 87 years.

When the base is overrun by a sickening attack — one that puts the carnage in The Walking Dead to shame — Melanie is smuggled out by a tense, bickering trio: her dangerously affectionate teacher (Gemma Arterton), a surly sergeant (Paddy Considine) and the all - business scientist nearing a vaccine (Glenn Close, completing the most formidable horror cast in years).

More likely, people will continue to bicker about the nominees's worthiness on the sidelines every year — which is what film awards are really about, anyway.

As Boris and Zhenya (Aleksey Rozin and Maryana Spivak) bicker over the future of their 12 - year - old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), a turn of the camera reveals the boy eavesdropping just out of sight — sobbing silently as he discovers that he's a «mistake» no one wants to be saddled with.

Others argued that the bickering between traditional and charter public schools is largely driven by North Carolina's limited spending on education over the years.

In ensuing years, federal and state agencies and the community bickered over possible remedies.

Falling in an established order within the cycle, the animals, according to legend, once bickered over who would head the cycle of years.

Maybe if we all supported each other instead of bickering maybe our industry could grow instead of losing money every year.

Even in a smooth transition of ownership, there's still years of potential fights ahead as siblings get saddled with the expenses of regular upkeep, taxes, and figuring out a way to share the property without bickering over whose family gets the place each weekend.

While I can't say it's one of the best games I've played all year it's certainly going to find an appreciative audience who love its theme and political bickering, provided of course that said audience is not made up of people who hold grudges because New Angeles has the potential to break up more families than Monopoly.

Last year saw a lot of bickering amongst Microsoft, Nintendo and even Activision over financial agreements that prevented Goldeneye 007 «s release on the Wii's Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade.

Will EVE players be willing to leave their best laid invasion plans in the hands of a bunch of bickering fourteen year - olds with hyper - conductive nervous systems?

Otherwise, all I can see is years and years of continual bickering by both sides, while the public getting more and more twisted and confused.

The axe - grinding went way beyond the usual inter-disciplinary bickering, including specifically the topic of who teaches statistics and how, something I've discussed over the years at various schools with professors, department heads and one university president, having given invited (simple) statistics - related lectures at 7 schools, most of which rank in Top 100 on most people's lists.

That's what Sunday must have felt like for high - powered Kaye Scholer partner Madlyn Primoff, who spent the night in lock - up after being arrested for kicking her bickering 10 - and 12 - year - old daughters out of her car in downtown White Plains, N.Y., and leaving them on the street, as reported in The New York Times.

Also included is our White Elephant gift exchange, which is always a ton of fun for the staff to bicker over and a resourceful means of disposing of unwanted gifts from last year.