[C15.] More Growing Pains for Icann Eighteen months of setbacks and frustration exploded into a tense, sometimes hostile showdown between the appointees who have been trying to invent a democratic charter for the Internet's first administrative body -- the founding board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- and the people they were supposed to be representing.
Instead, as they were bombarded with calls for delay, 18 months of setbacks and frustration exploded into a tense, sometimes hostile showdown between the group -- the founding board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann -- and the people they were supposed to be representing.
26 March Ed Miliband takes most plaudits in counter-attacking Jeremy Paxman's hostile questions in the first TV showdown between the Labour leader and David Cameron, who comes under fire for failing to find answers on food banks and zero-hour contracts.
Somaly Mam, Nicholas Kristof and the police had left already, and here we were: Me and Richard Fleming, the soundman, and Jeff Dupre, the producer, in a bum car anticipating a showdown with an armed hostile brothel, and possible skirmishes with the military.
A3 NATIONAL A14-22 Senate BusIseSlowedSlowed As Judicial Fight Intensifies As the filibuster fight roiled on, Republicans lashed out at Democrats for disrupting the Senate's legislative business in what both sides said was a preview of the hostile atmosphere that would follow the looming showdown on judicial nominees.
The plot is centered on sudden outbursts of violence from within and without (including a circle-the-wagons showdown with the warriors of two hostile tribes), as well as its avoidance, through Breck's sagacious diplomacy.
Lowe's Ends Effort to Acquire Rona, Its Canadian Rival | The home improvement retailer abandoned its $1.8 billion hostile bid, a move that avoids a political showdown with the government in Quebec, Ian Austen reported.
30 April David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg take part in the BBC Question Time debate – the final TV showdown of the campaign – as all face hostile questions from a lively audience.
"You voted for action, not politics as usual," Obama said in his address, but there was little sign that his call would be answered, with the president facing the prospect of doing business with a hostile Republican-led House of Representatives for at least the next two years and a looming showdown over spending and debt – the so-called "fiscal cliff".
OTTAWA — The home improvement retailer Lowe's on Monday abandoned its $1.8 billion hostile bid for its Canadian competitor Rona, a move that avoids a political showdown with the government in Quebec.
Kershaw argues that Stalin knew a showdown with Hitler was coming but didn't want to risk any hostile steps that might precipitate a German invasion before the end of 1942, when Soviet rearmament would be completed.
