contentious business

It looks like he got in the middle of a contentious business transaction.

In Alaska, within a party or just a typical family, politics can be a contentious business.

The contentious business of estimating the bill for September 11 has become a thriving cottage industry.

The Whips never plan for any contentious business to be debated, remembering that members are still arriving back from their constituencies all over the country.

A conclusion of the auction could spell the end of Redstone's contentious business relationship with his daughter.

He is helping solve contentious business disputes.

Heritage is a big and contentious business in Britain, and many people questioned whether reconstructing a ruin was the best way to preserve the past.

But by seizing a non-tangible asset of a non-Indian company as a way to escape a contentious business deal, the tribe may have stepped into untested waters.

BP has for years tried to extricate itself from the contentious business, which has been beset with infighting between BP and its Russian business partners.

Different rules apply to the costs where court proceedings have been commenced, known as contentious business, to those applicable to non-contentious matters such as conveyancing, probate and general advice.

Contentious business is work involving litigation, while non-contentious business is the rest of the solicitor's work of which the most important component will be conveyancing and probate work.

But for the most part, crediting is a less contentious business: after all, it “associates giver and receiver in the same moral milieu, while blame separates two moral settings from each other.”

Negotiating "trade rounds" is always contentious business: the last big negotiation, which created the World Trade Organization from a weaker predecessor, took years longer than orginally scheduled and left many issues completely unaddressed.

Though ranking orchestras is futile and contentious business, most informed observers would place the Vienna Philharmonic at or near the top of any qualitative listing worldwide, a position it has held through much of its illustrious history.

Awarding gongs, as they are known in the military, is a highly subjective and contentious business and can often be down to the literary skills of the senior officer writing the citation rather than the actual bravery shown by an individual.

When the producers of the "Today" show on NBC decided earlier this year to start a book club and recommend fiction to be discussed on the program, they sought to sidestep the contentious business of anointing new works.

If either the client or the solicitor is dissatisfied with the outcome of that request or if the bill relates to contentious business, either the client or the solicitor may apply to the court for the bill to be assessed.

Indeed, Prime Minister Tony Blair has placed the contentious business of global warming high on the agenda for the summit meeting of the Group of 8 major industrial nations this week - a likely point of contention with President Bush.

Cases before ETs are not included within the definition of "contentious business" to be found in Section 87 of the Solicitors Act 1987, although they are directly comparable to other forms of contentious business.

There are certain exceptions; a solicitor negotiating for the settlement of his client's debts is not considered to be working as a debt adjuster thanks to Section 146 of the Act, which excludes "a solicitor engaging in contentious business" as defined in the Solicitors Act 1957.

Open-bank assistance might not only delay the inevitable but would also put the Government in the politically contentious business of "choosing winners and losers," as well as betting on the rehabilitation of a bank - and a rescue of shareholders - that the market had condemned to failure, Mr. Reischauer said.

When you're sitting at the table and you've got some not very contentious business like manufacturing industry in the West Midlands, and there is some contention about that, but the House can be quite calm.