I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter battle/dispute
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There was a bitter battle over the building of the new airport.
a border dispute (= a disagreement about where the border should be )
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a long-running border dispute between Iraq and Iran
a boundary dispute (= a disagreement about where a boundary should be, for example between neighbours )
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We had to hire a lawyer to sort out the boundary dispute.
a custody battle/dispute (= a legal argument about who will have custody )
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He is fighting a bitter custody battle for his children.
a domestic dispute (= an argument between people who live together, especially when it involves violence )
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Police are often called to domestic disputes.
a pay dispute (= disagreement between an employer and employees about pay )
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Many flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.
challenge/dispute a notion
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Copernicus challenged the notion that the sun goes around the earth.
disputed territory (= land that two countries are fighting or arguing to get control of )
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The latest round of talks over the disputed territory begins next week.
dispute/reject a claim (= say it is not true )
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The Prime Minister rejected claims of a disagreement within his party.
hotly debated/disputed/denied etc
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The rumor has been hotly denied.
industrial conflict/dispute/unrest (= disagreement between workers and their employers )
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Last year 1.3 million workers took part in industrial disputes.
long-running dispute/battle/debate/feud etc
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She was involved in a long-running legal battle.
long-standing debate/dispute etc
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a long-standing feud between the two families
mediate...disputes
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The court was set up to mediate in civil disputes.
resolve a dispute/conflict
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Negotiation is the only way to resolve the dispute.
settle a dispute/argument/conflict
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Every effort was made to settle the dispute, without success.
solve a dispute/conflict
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They have agreed to solve their disputes solely by peaceful means.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
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Ballylumford had had a long, bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed.
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Exactly when the Gingrich case will come to a close has become a matter of bitter dispute .
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The city council, famous in the 1980s for its bitter internal disputes , could not be more pliant.
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The biggest gains and the most bitter disputes arise over trades between north and south.
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It is now the subject of a bitter dispute between the neighbouring republics.
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The bill has bogged down in bitter disputes over the balance between law enforcement and civil liberties.
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The parts makers must therefore take some pleasure in Mr Lopez's increasingly bitter dispute with his former employer.
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Der Spiegel magazine made Waldsterben a front-page issue in November 1981. Bitter scientific disputes soon developed.
domestic
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Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home.
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Police said the homicide appears to be related to a domestic dispute .
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The court heard that the cousin was stabbed during a domestic dispute .
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In order to exclude domestic disputes , there is a proviso that the offence can not be committed inside a private dwelling.
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So a domestic Alexandrian dispute became a wide conflagration.
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In towns, the police policy of not becoming involved in domestic disputes had left women without protection.
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In parliament, the bitterest domestic dispute concerned one of the oldest issues of all, drink.
industrial
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It was the first major industrial dispute to test the Conservative Government's industrial legislation, or at least potentially to do so.
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Ballylumford had had a long, bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed.
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The unions also attacked the Labor government's precedent in compensating employers in an industrial dispute .
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Eden was instantly plunged into industrial disputes in the docks and on the railways.
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Today will be the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978.
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I would point out that the procedure for the avoidance of industrial disputes is inappropriate in these circumstances.
international
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This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
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The case histories and practical guidance demonstrates why international businesses dispute mediation does work.
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It might become necessary to define the parameters of an international dispute soas to identify the parties to it.
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Secret diplomacy must be abolished. 3. International disputes should be resolved through the methods of conference and arbitration.
legal
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A succession of other legal disputes went unresolved, and appeals were made to the parlement of Paris.
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First on the witness stand was Neill Freeman, a forensic accountant who traces assets in legal disputes .
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In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts.
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The charges against Studer are part of the legal dispute over the share plan, which shareholders narrowly backed in November 1994.
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He was a passionate, combative, choleric, and difficult man, frequently embroiled in legal disputes .
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If the information is preserved, it will be in an effort to guarantee its availability in case of legal dispute .
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A dispute over what they do mean is, in principle, like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute.
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He's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children.
political
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The latter has now been swallowed up by extreme political shifts and disputes .
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Moscow wished to cultivate this strand of the policy of the non-aligned states to strengthen their political dispute with the Western powers.
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In the world that he created, there were no wars, no political disputes , no dangers.
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The enactment of a code of Basic Rights and Constitution does not resolve political disputes .
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It is a debate which reflects the overall political dispute about the role of high art in the classroom.
territorial
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This was a formal combat to settle a territorial dispute .
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Most income came from the hiring out of paladins as mercenaries in territorial disputes .
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Keep just one male in a small tank as territorial disputes will otherwise occur.
■ NOUN
border
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Presumably a similar border dispute lay behind Aethelbald's attack on Northumbrian territory in 740.
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Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.
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Outstanding differences on the border dispute between the two countries failed, however, to be resolved decisively.
boundary
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It sounds like a boundary dispute .
labor
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Shi said a trend to watch is growth in collective labor disputes , which occurred6,567 times in 1998 and involved 251,268 workers.
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It is said that other Presidents without congressional authority have taken possession of private business enterprises in order to settle labor disputes .
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For the moment, union officials are devoting their energies to the labor dispute at Quincy Farms.
pay
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This is illustrated by reference to teachers' responses to various externally sponsored innovations and the teachers' pay dispute of 1985-86.
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Industrial action and pay disputes dominated the headlines in the 1970s.
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The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.
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Mr Cook also repeated demands for arbitration to settle the ambulance staff pay dispute .
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Ayrshire buses dispute deal A PAY dispute which has crippled bus services in Ayrshire could be over.
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They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute .
resolution
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This distinction becomes clearer when one sees that it is mainly the industrial applications which have developed into dispute resolution .
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An emphasis on mediation and alternative dispute resolution .
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The system of dispute resolution attempts to tread a careful line between consumer and vendor interests.
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It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues, and for dispute resolution .
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The haulier should be aware of the basic advantages of this form of commercial dispute resolution .
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Is the dispute resolution procedure invoked? 3 Who can invoke the dispute resolution procedure and how?
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Or would its growth simply cut lawyers out of dispute resolution ?
trade
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Many trade disputes are pending, awaiting the outcome of the talks; failure would activate them immediately.
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Both countries have a stake in using the World Trade Organization and in not allowing trade disputes to poison bilateral relations.
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Since the crew of the ship were not directly involved, the owners argued that there was no trade dispute .
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The Court of Appeal had held that there was no trade dispute and so no protection for the trade union officials.
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For example, trade disputes are settled by three bureaucrats who meet in secret.
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The first would demonstrably be a political strike and the second would hardly be a trade dispute .
■ VERB
arise
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An important general moral arises from the long dispute over the date of the Thera eruption.
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He said that he thought the attack arose out of a personal dispute .
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Instead, the vendor should be encouraged to identify, describe and quantify the actual and contingent liabilities arising from these disputes .
avoid
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A statement must be obtained from the Insured to establish the facts and to avoid subsequent dispute as to the circumstances.
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Perhaps you should make some dividend distributions to avoid a dispute over reasonable salary.
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He said that the Banks must develop trust and respect to avoid further damaging disputes .
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In fact, most folks avoided disputes with him.
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In order to avoid disputes , the sale agreement should specify the priority to be given to each of these rules.
end
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The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question.
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Rarely do they resort to actual blows to end disputes .
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The two sides were brought together with the help of high-powered intermediaries who are keen to end the dispute .
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Ministers and unions last night said they despaired of ending the dispute .
involve
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He was involved in the major dispute between Edward I and Gaston de Béarn.
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It puts behind us the issues that were involved in this dispute ...
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The courts have long been involved in demarcation disputes .
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Experienced specialist arbitrators are ideally suited to hear many more cases involving disputes over haulage contracts.
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People, after all, are often involved in disputes and difficulties with their relatives, but only a minority commit suicide.
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In towns, the police policy of not becoming involved in domestic disputes had left women without protection.
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It also meant that the police were immediately involved when serious disputes arose between labour and employers.
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The community has been involved in a land dispute with a powerful local landowner.
mediate
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It has wide-ranging powers to investigate financial services companies and will mediate in disputes .
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He spent much of his time mediating disputes and absorbing the free-floating rage that the Standing had unleashed.
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To mediate in such a dispute was the dreariest occupation of a bishop.
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In its first year, the centre was asked to mediate in over 60 disputes .
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We won't mediate in disputes about who occupies the enormous after cabin.
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Litigants still do not seem eager to save costs by mediating their disputes .
resolve
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Although both sides acknowledged the difficulty of resolving the dispute , the tone of the visit was positive.
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The parties would get another 30 days to resolve the dispute .
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Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.
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Most lawyers spend most of their time helping clients prevent or resolve disputes , trying their best to avoid costly litigation.
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How might she still resolve the dispute by creative thinking?
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Her suggestion did nothing to resolve the dispute over the Chargers deal.
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Although the visitor's position is anomalous, it provides a valuable machinery for resolving internal disputes which should not be lost.
settle
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It would be sensible for dioceses to establish procedures for arbitration in case these are needed to settle disputes .
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The army supervised the elections of 1867 and 1868 and was called in from time to time thereafter to settle scattered disputes .
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The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy.
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Because that was the only way to settle a long-running genetic dispute between sets of genes.
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This was a formal combat to settle a territorial dispute .
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Mercy and others who track violence see two disturbing trends, also reflected locally: Guns increasingly are used to settle disputes .
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The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities.
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The figures alone, however, are unlikely to settle the ongoing disputes and passions around immigration.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be locked in battle/combat/dispute etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All efforts to settle the dispute have so far failed.
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Morris has been involved in a long legal dispute with his publisher.
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Representatives from both sides met late last night in an attempt to settle the budget dispute between Congress and the President.
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The dispute over weapons inspections is likely to be the main topic of tomorrow's meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the dispute will probably never be settled since both Topeka and Azusa Street have now achieved a certain mythic quality.
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He asked the panel to chose its foreman quickly and in a way that does not create disputes.
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It sounds like a boundary dispute .
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My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute .
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The main areas of dispute had been an executive president, a second house of parliament, and proportional representation.
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The settlement of disputes between participants in a company may also prove awkward.
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There is some dispute as to whether dinghy sailing and windsurfing are classified as immersion sports and whether or not they will be permitted.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
hotly
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The precise part played by peasant unrest in the genesis and character of the reform has long been hotly disputed .
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Even that much is hotly disputed .
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The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed .
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The most hotly disputed point was the size of the market.
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But, in the past, the species unity of mankind has been hotly disputed .
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It has become the most famous and hotly disputed California ballot measure since Proposition 13 cut property taxes in 1978.
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At other times, however, he is more circumspect and admits that this is a hotly disputed issue in biology.
■ NOUN
claim
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Lothian and Borders Police admitted liability but disputed her claim for £75,000 damages.
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But department administrators dispute those claims , saying the system is on its way to becoming the finest in the nation.
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The California Department of Insurance has 372 disputed claims on its books.
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The husband disputes the claim , on the ground that there was no consideration for his promise.
fact
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Also, it is usually possible to dispute the facts themselves by challenging the theory involved in their identification.
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It is difficult to dispute the fact that race does make a significant difference in the criminal justice system.
figures
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But the management disputes those figures and insists the new service isn't a threat.
view
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By examining the coverage of the war over 20 years, Mr Wyatt convincingly disputes this view .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Local residents disputed the police's version of the incident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Firstly, the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used.
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He specifically disputed two witnesses who said they saw him slap her.
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Jay was not to be disputed on subjects central to his interests.
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McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer's grievance procedures to voice his dissent.
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Since ancient times people have disputed the actions taken by their neighbours.
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They show how these definitions may be disputed by individuals or groups, and how actors negotiate shared rules and ideas.