But others, growing tired of the increasingly hostile disputes, are finding ways to proclaim a common vision.
The comments come amid an increasingly hostile public dispute between the Royal Darwin hospital and the singer's manager and specialist doctor, with the latter releasing medical records in order to back up their claims of racial profiling.
The AES Corporation of Arlington, Va., said yesterday that Venezuela's largest telephone company had failed to provide investors in the United States with precise information in the latest chapter of one of Latin America's most visible hostile takeover disputes.
Slowly but surely, Asian territorial disputes have become as hostile as inter-state disputes among Western countries in the past and Middle Eastern nations in more recent times.
Modern Turkish politics, always complex, span a spectrum of hostile parties and messy disputes.
Lastly, rather than litigating disputes in a hostile and stressful environment, mediation offers couples the opportunity to resolve their disputes by finding workable solutions.
Republicans dispute that, contending that Mr. Kerry is hostile to the interests of the auto industry and thus to the state's working men and women.
The president recently called South Asia "the most dangerous place" on earth, a conclusion drawn from the dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan, two hostile neighbors with nuclear weapons.
In the central region of Nigeria, for instance, where much of the ostensibly Christian-Muslim violence takes place, the mutually hostile groups are often motivated as much by disputes over land and longstanding ethnic friction as they are by religion.
Last week, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama engaged in a dispute over whether they would agree to meet with hostile rulers without preconditions.
