Sentence examples for disputes pass from inspiring English sources

And most recently, his officials have cast doubt on the value of negotiating a global treaty to end the production of fissile material for bombs, arguing that it would be virtually impossible to verify reliably.Most Republicans in Congress, and some Democrats, have let all these treaty disputes pass.

Most galling to him is that last year the state legislature, trying to clear up boundary disputes, passed a law essentially declaring residency is determined by where a voter sleeps.

Haasis is now asking for the disputed pass to be stricken from the record book, leaving him short of the record with 4,969 yards.

Such was the case Sunday in ABC's broadcast of the Indianapolis 500, which turned on Paul Tracy's disputed pass of the eventual winner, Hélio Castroneves, in the 199th lap.

Making a bad situation for freedom of speech and academic freedom worse, state legislatures like the New York State Senate rushed in to the dispute, passing resolutions that would deny funding to groups supporting a boycott--thereby punishing individual faculty members for the political resolutions made by membership organizations.

However they denied he had sparked the unrest, claiming other protesters had reacted violently minutes earlier after becoming involved in a dispute with passing Orioles fans.

But Republicans, who also have been embroiled in a separate dispute for passing over a Catholic priest as House chaplain, quickly did some condemning of their own.

Burgess claimed that the only response he ever had to the many reviews he wrote for the Yorkshire Post was from a woman disputing a passing claim he had made that British orchids have no smell.

When two American destroyers exchanged fire with a North Vietnamese torpedo boat eight miles off the North's coast in August 1964 (an event whose occurrence was later disputed), Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing the President to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to protect American lives in Southeast Asia.

The Trades Disputes act was passed in 1927, banning general strikes.

But the boarding pass dispute is not Ryanair's only recent clash over extra fees and cost-cutting practices.