1.   An acrimonious dispute between the two houses greeted the announcement of the figures.

2.   The Daily Record revealed that an acrimonious dispute over cigarette sponsorship was splitting public opinion.

3.   This had all the makings of another long-running acrimonious dispute, when again wider political events quite unexpectedly overtook the controversy.

4.   The meeting ended in an acrimonious dispute.

5.   He and the university provost have been embroiled in a particularly acrimonious dispute.

6.   That conundrum lies at the heart of an acrimonious dispute in western Michigan over whether Internet access at public libraries should be restricted to protect children from pornography.

7.   Throughout the campaign in South Carolina, McCain tried to avoid being drawn into the acrimonious dispute over the Confederate flag.

8.   A Gulf Arab summit which opens Saturday in Qatar is likely to be overshadowed by an increasingly acrimonious territorial dispute between the host nation and its neighbor Bahrain.

9.   Canada and the United States will ask a mediator to settle their increasingly acrimonious dispute over fishing for chinook salmon by Alaskan fleets, a Canadian minister said Monday.

10.   France gave its full support to the German government Monday in its acrimonious dispute with the Church of Scientology.