Some say it was an acrimonious debate that carried the seeds of division.

Our debates should be less acrimonious and better attuned to the new realities.

For the rest of us, the key question is whether America and China will be increasingly acrimonious competitors or cooperative partners, albeit with very different political systems.

His long gestating speech on Europe, although containing elements that many might share, also sows the seeds for a prolonged and acrimonious debate and not just in Britain.

Sri Lanka, almost since independence in 1948, has been racked by acrimonious rivalry between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, who make up 12 of today s 21.3 million population.

For years debates on the situation in the Middle East were acrimonious, divisive and frustrating, and the situation itself seemed to have reached deadlock, with all the dangers that that implies.

Special efforts were made to instil legal ethics into the minds of young lawyers whenever any acrimonious situations arose within the community or it related to Bar and the Bench, all such matters were resolved amicably.

Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal. Then the terrorists struck in London.

65. In February 1993, after a long and sometimes acrimonious debate, a majority of 52 per cent of the workers at the Star Kist tuna cannery voted against joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Workers in the two canneries thus remain non unionized. 18

In this context my delegation very much regrets that the deliberations in the Commission on Human Rights and other intergovernmental bodies are becoming increasingly acrimonious, with a number of Western countries choosing to humiliate third world countries rather than assisting them in a constructive way to address human rights issues in their countries.