lock horns

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That focus on transparency — honed during his early years in Australia — saw him lock horns with the church’s bureaucracy over his attempts to audit the Vatican’s assets and spending.

From Washington Post

Nearly 200 countries gathering for the U.N. climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disasters.

From Reuters

European Union leaders will lock horns on Friday over whether and how to cap gas prices, as they attempt to curb a surge in energy prices that threatens to push the 27-nation bloc into recession and disrupt the EU's cherished single market.

From Reuters

Yorkshire Vikings and Lancashire Lightning get things under way in a mouth-watering Roses game, before Hampshire Hawks and Somerset lock horns in a repeat of last year's semi-final.

From BBC

They were known to lock horns consistently with archconservative Republican U.S.

From Seattle Times