Sentence examples for off disputes from inspiring English sources

Claims to authorship of great products have set off disputes stretching back eons.

Still, his message was aimed at China, which has asserted sweeping claims over the South China Sea, touching off disputes with several other countries that border the sea.

Spain claims jurisdiction because EDP is 31percentt owned by the Portuguese government, and Spanish law requires Madrid to rule on deals involving state-owned companies, a provision that has set off disputes with the commission in the past.

Soon after, in January , 2012 multiple leaks and reports forced the Taliban to admit publicly that they had been talking to the U.S., setting off disputes in the leadership and stunning the rank and file.

Under AKP, Turkey has been delving into areas that its traditional westward-looking foreign policy establishment considered off-limits, acting as a power-broker in far off disputes from Afghanistan to Palestine.

BEIJING — China launched its revamped coast guard last week and immediately sent four ships, emblazoned with the new red, white and blue logo, to patrol waters off disputed islands in the nearby East China Sea.

Since then it has been a fenced-off, disputed area, which UN resolutions and tense negotiations seem unable to resolve.

QPR are still in a pay-off dispute with former manager Mark Hughes, who was sacked last November.

The expansion has touched off bitter disputes in communities proud of their schools.

Efforts to add contentious policy provisions to the spending measures are also expected to set off partisan disputes.

In the last elections, in 1997, a turnout of less than 5% set off the disputes that led to the current mess.