Sentence examples for procedural wrangling from inspiring English sources

All of us now expect elections to be not only competitions between candidates and parties but also conflicts over voting rights and electoral procedures; we expect the legal and procedural wrangling to begin weeks before election day, and we fear that it will go on for weeks afterward.

The trial was delayed repeatedly by disputes over the testimony of medical experts and other procedural wrangling.

Approval in the Senate came after two weeks of procedural wrangling, forced by Senate Republicans, over unrelated measures.

But on that issue, as Copenhagen revealed, China is not the self-touted rising superpower but a scheming power that uses poor states as a front to obstruct progress through procedural wrangling.

The two sides are locked in more procedural wrangling over the arrangements for next week, arguing over how best to ensure parliament does not sit at the same time as Lady Thatcher's funeral.

The European parliament voted on Wednesday to ban the wasteful practice of throwing away healthy fish at sea in a victory for campaigners and green groups after more than two years of procedural wrangling.

They're just getting under way now, with some kind of procedural wrangle.

What's striking about the uprising is not the collisions of intractable ideological positions but, rather, the sheer confusion, missed opportunities, personal squabbles, and absurd procedural wrangles that governed it.

And these micro-divisions are amplified on a gigantic scale through a re-creation of the 2009 Copenhagen conference when procedural wrangles took precedence over positive action, despite a belated intervention by Barack Obama.

"I keep finding amusement in their imagination, in the different references they're making to me," Mr. Daschle said, allowing himself a faint smile in an interview on Wednesday, sandwiched between procedural wrangles on the farm bill and the collapse of negotiations on a stimulus bill.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke dismissed the row over timings as "hysterical angst" and said he was not sure why everyone was "wildly excited" about a "procedural wrangle".