Sentence examples for a dispute when from inspiring English sources

Mediators choose to enter the fray of a dispute when it advances their own interests.

The 1983 meeting of the Committee on Political Broadcasting was held to resolve a dispute, when the Liberal-SDP Alliance demanded the same number of broadcasts as the Tories and Labour.

In the great majority of situations in which labour mediation agencies have been created by a governmental unit, these agencies have the power to intervene in a dispute when in their judgment the public interest is threatened.

The company is also accused of failing to supply obligatory "letters of deadlock" – issued when there is no further progress possible in a dispute – when complaints remain unresolved after eight weeks.

Mr. Bush addressed the group in fall 1999 to solicit support for his campaign, stirring a dispute when news of his speech leaked and Democrats demanded he release a tape recording.

The BBC cannot be blamed for the leak, but it is highly sensitive to similar technical glitches: last year there was a dispute when Michael Heseltine was accidentally filmed without his knowledge admitting he had not been informed about the latest interest rate cut.

He had been presiding over an outdoor meeting of local elders to settle a commercial dispute when a missile was fired from a drone.

Several people said the protest started with a land dispute, when a family that claimed ownership of the compound demanded that the militia, Libya Shield, leave.

This month's event centers on "Harlem Summer" by Walter Dean Myers, a novel about a 16-year-old saxophone player who accidentally becomes involved in a bootlegging dispute when running an errand for Fats Waller in Harlem in 1925.

Both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, and the producers guild became embroiled in a ferocious dispute when they denied Bob Yari, a film financier, status as a producer for awards purposes on the film "Crash".

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of American military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis.