dispute
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"The country looks to this court. History, too, will look upon this moment," he said, urging justices to "maintain balance" and distinguish "legal controversy from personal dispute."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The drugmaker has targeted air-traffic control fees in a dispute with Poland and Romania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
In addition, one economist calls the use of bans in a trade dispute “extremely unusual.”
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The switch follows the so-called "mackerel war", a long-running dispute between the UK, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, the Faroe Islands, the EU and Russia over shared mackerel catch quotas.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
So the dispute between Reinier de Graaf and Jan Swammerdam over the discovery of the egg within the ovary, which began in 1672, was referred to the Royal Society in London for adjudication.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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They have histories of border disputes and even military confrontations.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Those provisions were intended as a way to level the playing field against a federal government, allowing entities to recoup attorney costs when they win legal disputes against the feds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Alvarez’s intervention work primarily focused on using his gang contacts to help quash disputes and acting as a middleman between people scared to report crimes to police and law enforcement officials, according to Garcia-Leys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The court -- which rules on legal disputes between countries -- has already thrown out a request by Nicaragua to impose emergency measures on Germany, notably to stop arms exports to Israel.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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His arrival comes six years after a deadly 2020 military clash along their disputed Tibetan border, with ties gradually improving through restored flights, visas and high-level contacts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The two countries have revived a high-level dialogue on their disputed boundary by special representatives and come to agreements on military patrols in two disputed areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bartiromo’s lawyer disputed those accounts on Friday, calling reports of her firing “absolutely and unequivocally false” and said they have the receipts to prove it.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic Ocean remains hotly disputed between Britain and Argentina.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Reshevsky nervously paced the stage, once again waiting for the absent Bobby to arrive, this time to play the disputed thirteenth game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Thompson spent months asking for clarity about the added charges—and disputing some—and eventually wound up paying about $6,000 out of pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Becerra has defended his record at HHS, arguing that the Trump administration had left the agency ill-equipped to care for so many children and disputing the number of unaccompanied minors who were “lost.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
We argued that the government shouldn’t be allowed to punish American citizens while forbidding them from publicly disputing the accusations, aside from grave matters of national security.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
This makes July 10, 2026, the red-letter day because taxpayers usually have three years after filing a return to make a claim disputing a penalty, according to Collins.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
First, there was no disputing the importance of the discoveries in the New World, for the simple reason that they had become matters of state, the concern of kings.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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