Companies Complain But the effort to open networks has been mired in disputes.

The arrangement drifts, mired in disputes over trade and investment.

It's a bit like the problem of deciding to play a ball game but getting hopelessly mired in disputes over the rules.

But it is mired now in disputes between school officials and disgruntled parents who argue that their rights under federal education law have been violated.

While conventional nuclear power plants also supply energy without carbon dioxide pollution, they are mired in political, environmental and economic disputes.

Its efforts to establish an open decision-making process became mired in disputes over who the Internet's stakeholders actually were.

Other nominees are mired in disputes raging along Pennsylvania Avenue.

On the political front, the settlement debate is mired in endless disputes over legality and history.

Negotiators said the measure had been mired in disputes over details, including the precise definition of genetic testing.

But thus far the project has not made it out of the red and has remained mired in disputes.