Though very lucrative in financial terms, the half-share in TNK-BP brought a string of disputes with the partners.
A string of disputes with Mr. Marinan and frustrations over his minor role at City Hall led the young councilman to decide he would not run for re-election.
He had them top of the table 19 games into his second season when a string of disputes with the board led, once again, to his dismissal.
The UN proposal follows a string of disputes between indebted countries and their creditors that critics argue have been derailed by demands for repayments that would lead to bankruptcy.
While Germany has a track record of mostly harmonious labor relations compared with other major European countries, its airlines and airports have been hit by a string of disputes in recent years as companies battle to cut costs to cope with the rise of low-cost carriers, soaring fuel prices, fast-growing Middle East airlines and an air travel tax.
But recently, following a string of tax disputes with the government, a gas flaring issue and disputes with Lukoil regarding a joint venture, the stock has been beaten down due to uncertainty.
The case was the latest in a string of legal disputes that have divided the slain civil rights icon's children in recent years.
The court injunctions are the latest in a string of patent disputes between Apple and MMI, which Google is buying for $12.5bn.
When he was prime minister, in the mid-1980s, the strains on the relationship — from an undervalued yen and a string of trade disputes, to fears that Japan would buy up the American economy, to criticism of Tokyo's anemic defense spending — were actually much more threatening than those of today, he said.
Is it just unfortunate coincidence that nearly all the big UK outsourcers have suffered the indignity of having their accounting policies scrutinised, a string of contract disputes or issues resulting in multiple profit warnings, or is there a systemic issue across the sector?
