Sentence examples for acrimonious hearing from inspiring English sources

What was always going to be an acrimonious hearing was given further spice yesterday by words used by Mr Warner in an interview with the Trinidad Express newspaper.

In 1978, his nomination to head the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was withdrawn by President Jimmy Carter after a first, acrimonious hearing on Capitol Hill.

At an acrimonious hearing that showed how bitter the fight remains over the Florida election last fall, two members of the United States Civil Rights Commission strafed each other today and called each other liars.

These two works, both diptychs, were made in 1989, just after Mr. Serra's huge 1981 public sculpture, "Tilted Arc," was removed from a dismal Lower Manhattan plaza, following an acrimonious hearing and court case initiated by people who worked in the federal office building it sat in front of.

At an acrimonious two-hour hearing that ended shortly before midnight, Jonathan S. Adelstein, a Democratic commissioner, and Robert M. McDowell, a Republican commissioner, criticized the process leading up to the votes.

And there is one of those massive and acrimonious debates that you've never heard of going on between Ka and Ku proponents pushing their technology for higher-throughput satellite communications.

Of course, just as every unhappy family is different, every divorce is too: they range from the highly acrimonious, in which husband and wife cannot stand even to hear the sound of each other's voice and so communicate only through their children, to those marriages that conclude with a shrug of the shoulders.

(Note: Often during this retrograde you'll hear about many high-profiled, celebrity separations and acrimonious divorces).

An increasingly acrimonious exchange of correspondence between May and Vaz has taken place since the hearing last Tuesday, with the home secretary explicitly telling the committee chairman that she was "extremely displeased" with the approach he had taken.

The hearing, scheduled to continue on Tuesday, was the culmination of an acrimonious public battle with prosecutors in Sweden who have sought since September to question Mr. Assange, 39, about accusations made against him in Stockholm last summer by two women who volunteered for WikiLeaks, one in her early 30s and another in her mid-20s.

The debate was an acrimonious event, marked by the audience's palpable disappointment with what they heard, and capped with an 89 percent vote of no confidence in the Palestinian leadership.