1.   Disputes were often taken to a village council, which attempted to bring about an amicable settlement.

2.   An increasing number of pupils and their parents are taking disputes from the classroom to the courtroom.

3.   As such, they have a right to take disputes involving their livelihood to the bargaining table.

4.   Both Johannesburg and Cape Town have taken their disputes to court and are awaiting rulings.

5.   According to witnesses, they exchanged some heated words about their father before taking their dispute outside.

6.   Circuit City said the former salesman was barred from going to court because he had signed an agreement when he was hired to take any dispute to arbitration.

7.   Each side called the difference minor, and expressed disbelief that the other would take the dispute to the brink over so small an issue.

8.   Former Ivy League basketball rivals, they would sometimes take disputes into the hallways.

9.   He tried to take evidence disputes in series.

10.   I took the dispute to an economist, expecting an argument for market value.