I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter battle/dispute
▪ There was a bitter battle over the building of the new airport.
a border dispute (=a disagreement about where the border should be)
▪ a long-running border dispute between Iraq and Iran
a boundary dispute (=a disagreement about where a boundary should be, for example between neighbours)
▪ We had to hire a lawyer to sort out the boundary dispute.
a custody battle/dispute (=a legal argument about who will have custody)
▪ He is fighting a bitter custody battle for his children.
a domestic dispute (=an argument between people who live together, especially when it involves violence)
▪ Police are often called to domestic disputes.
a pay dispute (=disagreement between an employer and employees about pay)
▪ Many flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.
challenge/dispute a notion
▪ Copernicus challenged the notion that the sun goes around the earth.
disputed territory (=land that two countries are fighting or arguing to get control of)
▪ The latest round of talks over the disputed territory begins next week.
dispute/reject a claim (=say it is not true)
▪ The Prime Minister rejected claims of a disagreement within his party.
hotly debated/disputed/denied etc
▪ The rumor has been hotly denied.
industrial conflict/dispute/unrest (=disagreement between workers and their employers)
▪ Last year 1.3 million workers took part in industrial disputes.
long-running dispute/battle/debate/feud etc
▪ She was involved in a long-running legal battle.
long-standing debate/dispute etc
▪ a long-standing feud between the two families
mediate...disputes
▪ The court was set up to mediate in civil disputes.
resolve a dispute/conflict
▪ Negotiation is the only way to resolve the dispute.
settle a dispute/argument/conflict
▪ Every effort was made to settle the dispute, without success.
solve a dispute/conflict
▪ They have agreed to solve their disputes solely by peaceful means.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
▪ Ballylumford had had a long, bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed.
▪ Exactly when the Gingrich case will come to a close has become a matter of bitter dispute.
▪ The city council, famous in the 1980s for its bitter internal disputes, could not be more pliant.
▪ The biggest gains and the most bitter disputes arise over trades between north and south.
▪ It is now the subject of a bitter dispute between the neighbouring republics.
▪ The bill has bogged down in bitter disputes over the balance between law enforcement and civil liberties.
▪ The parts makers must therefore take some pleasure in Mr Lopez's increasingly bitter dispute with his former employer.
▪ Der Spiegel magazine made Waldsterben a front-page issue in November 1981. Bitter scientific disputes soon developed.
domestic
▪ Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home.
▪ Police said the homicide appears to be related to a domestic dispute.
▪ The court heard that the cousin was stabbed during a domestic dispute.
▪ In order to exclude domestic disputes, there is a proviso that the offence can not be committed inside a private dwelling.
▪ So a domestic Alexandrian dispute became a wide conflagration.
▪ In towns, the police policy of not becoming involved in domestic disputes had left women without protection.
▪ In parliament, the bitterest domestic dispute concerned one of the oldest issues of all, drink.
industrial
▪ It was the first major industrial dispute to test the Conservative Government's industrial legislation, or at least potentially to do so.
▪ Ballylumford had had a long, bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed.
▪ The unions also attacked the Labor government's precedent in compensating employers in an industrial dispute.
▪ Eden was instantly plunged into industrial disputes in the docks and on the railways.
▪ Today will be the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978.
▪ I would point out that the procedure for the avoidance of industrial disputes is inappropriate in these circumstances.
international
▪ This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
▪ The case histories and practical guidance demonstrates why international businesses dispute mediation does work.
▪ It might become necessary to define the parameters of an international dispute soas to identify the parties to it.
▪ Secret diplomacy must be abolished. 3. International disputes should be resolved through the methods of conference and arbitration.
legal
▪ A succession of other legal disputes went unresolved, and appeals were made to the parlement of Paris.
▪ First on the witness stand was Neill Freeman, a forensic accountant who traces assets in legal disputes.
▪ In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts.
▪ The charges against Studer are part of the legal dispute over the share plan, which shareholders narrowly backed in November 1994.
▪ He was a passionate, combative, choleric, and difficult man, frequently embroiled in legal disputes.
▪ If the information is preserved, it will be in an effort to guarantee its availability in case of legal dispute.
▪ A dispute over what they do mean is, in principle, like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute.
▪ He's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children.
political
▪ The latter has now been swallowed up by extreme political shifts and disputes.
▪ Moscow wished to cultivate this strand of the policy of the non-aligned states to strengthen their political dispute with the Western powers.
▪ In the world that he created, there were no wars, no political disputes, no dangers.
▪ The enactment of a code of Basic Rights and Constitution does not resolve political disputes.
▪ It is a debate which reflects the overall political dispute about the role of high art in the classroom.
territorial
▪ This was a formal combat to settle a territorial dispute.
▪ Most income came from the hiring out of paladins as mercenaries in territorial disputes.
▪ Keep just one male in a small tank as territorial disputes will otherwise occur.
■ NOUN
border
▪ Presumably a similar border dispute lay behind Aethelbald's attack on Northumbrian territory in 740.
▪ Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.
▪ Outstanding differences on the border dispute between the two countries failed, however, to be resolved decisively.
boundary
▪ It sounds like a boundary dispute.
labor
▪ Shi said a trend to watch is growth in collective labor disputes, which occurred6,567 times in 1998 and involved 251,268 workers.
▪ It is said that other Presidents without congressional authority have taken possession of private business enterprises in order to settle labor disputes.
▪ For the moment, union officials are devoting their energies to the labor dispute at Quincy Farms.
pay
▪ This is illustrated by reference to teachers' responses to various externally sponsored innovations and the teachers' pay dispute of 1985-86.
▪ Industrial action and pay disputes dominated the headlines in the 1970s.
▪ The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses' pay review body.
▪ Mr Cook also repeated demands for arbitration to settle the ambulance staff pay dispute.
▪ Ayrshire buses dispute deal A PAY dispute which has crippled bus services in Ayrshire could be over.
▪ They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute.
resolution
▪ This distinction becomes clearer when one sees that it is mainly the industrial applications which have developed into dispute resolution.
▪ An emphasis on mediation and alternative dispute resolution.
▪ The system of dispute resolution attempts to tread a careful line between consumer and vendor interests.
▪ It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues, and for dispute resolution.
▪ The haulier should be aware of the basic advantages of this form of commercial dispute resolution.
▪ Is the dispute resolution procedure invoked? 3 Who can invoke the dispute resolution procedure and how?
▪ Or would its growth simply cut lawyers out of dispute resolution?
trade
▪ Many trade disputes are pending, awaiting the outcome of the talks; failure would activate them immediately.
▪ Both countries have a stake in using the World Trade Organization and in not allowing trade disputes to poison bilateral relations.
▪ Since the crew of the ship were not directly involved, the owners argued that there was no trade dispute.
▪ The Court of Appeal had held that there was no trade dispute and so no protection for the trade union officials.
▪ For example, trade disputes are settled by three bureaucrats who meet in secret.
▪ The first would demonstrably be a political strike and the second would hardly be a trade dispute.
■ VERB
arise
▪ An important general moral arises from the long dispute over the date of the Thera eruption.
▪ He said that he thought the attack arose out of a personal dispute.
▪ Instead, the vendor should be encouraged to identify, describe and quantify the actual and contingent liabilities arising from these disputes.
avoid
▪ A statement must be obtained from the Insured to establish the facts and to avoid subsequent dispute as to the circumstances.
▪ Perhaps you should make some dividend distributions to avoid a dispute over reasonable salary.
▪ He said that the Banks must develop trust and respect to avoid further damaging disputes.
▪ In fact, most folks avoided disputes with him.
▪ In order to avoid disputes, the sale agreement should specify the priority to be given to each of these rules.
end
▪ The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question.
▪ Rarely do they resort to actual blows to end disputes.
▪ The two sides were brought together with the help of high-powered intermediaries who are keen to end the dispute.
▪ Ministers and unions last night said they despaired of ending the dispute.
involve
▪ He was involved in the major dispute between Edward I and Gaston de Béarn.
▪ It puts behind us the issues that were involved in this dispute...
▪ The courts have long been involved in demarcation disputes.
▪ Experienced specialist arbitrators are ideally suited to hear many more cases involving disputes over haulage contracts.
▪ People, after all, are often involved in disputes and difficulties with their relatives, but only a minority commit suicide.
▪ In towns, the police policy of not becoming involved in domestic disputes had left women without protection.
▪ It also meant that the police were immediately involved when serious disputes arose between labour and employers.
▪ The community has been involved in a land dispute with a powerful local landowner.
mediate
▪ It has wide-ranging powers to investigate financial services companies and will mediate in disputes.
▪ He spent much of his time mediating disputes and absorbing the free-floating rage that the Standing had unleashed.
▪ To mediate in such a dispute was the dreariest occupation of a bishop.
▪ In its first year, the centre was asked to mediate in over 60 disputes.
▪ We won't mediate in disputes about who occupies the enormous after cabin.
▪ Litigants still do not seem eager to save costs by mediating their disputes.
resolve
▪ Although both sides acknowledged the difficulty of resolving the dispute, the tone of the visit was positive.
▪ The parties would get another 30 days to resolve the dispute.
▪ Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.
▪ Most lawyers spend most of their time helping clients prevent or resolve disputes, trying their best to avoid costly litigation.
▪ How might she still resolve the dispute by creative thinking?
▪ Her suggestion did nothing to resolve the dispute over the Chargers deal.
▪ Although the visitor's position is anomalous, it provides a valuable machinery for resolving internal disputes which should not be lost.
settle
▪ It would be sensible for dioceses to establish procedures for arbitration in case these are needed to settle disputes.
▪ The army supervised the elections of 1867 and 1868 and was called in from time to time thereafter to settle scattered disputes.
▪ The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy.
▪ Because that was the only way to settle a long-running genetic dispute between sets of genes.
▪ This was a formal combat to settle a territorial dispute.
▪ Mercy and others who track violence see two disturbing trends, also reflected locally: Guns increasingly are used to settle disputes.
▪ The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities.
▪ The figures alone, however, are unlikely to settle the ongoing disputes and passions around immigration.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be locked in battle/combat/dispute etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All efforts to settle the dispute have so far failed.
▪ Morris has been involved in a long legal dispute with his publisher.
▪ Representatives from both sides met late last night in an attempt to settle the budget dispute between Congress and the President.
▪ The dispute over weapons inspections is likely to be the main topic of tomorrow's meeting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the dispute will probably never be settled since both Topeka and Azusa Street have now achieved a certain mythic quality.
▪ He asked the panel to chose its foreman quickly and in a way that does not create disputes.
▪ It sounds like a boundary dispute.
▪ My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute.
▪ The main areas of dispute had been an executive president, a second house of parliament, and proportional representation.
▪ The settlement of disputes between participants in a company may also prove awkward.
▪ There is some dispute as to whether dinghy sailing and windsurfing are classified as immersion sports and whether or not they will be permitted.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
hotly
▪ The precise part played by peasant unrest in the genesis and character of the reform has long been hotly disputed.
▪ Even that much is hotly disputed.
▪ The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed.
▪ The most hotly disputed point was the size of the market.
▪ But, in the past, the species unity of mankind has been hotly disputed.
▪ It has become the most famous and hotly disputed California ballot measure since Proposition 13 cut property taxes in 1978.
▪ At other times, however, he is more circumspect and admits that this is a hotly disputed issue in biology.
■ NOUN
claim
▪ Lothian and Borders Police admitted liability but disputed her claim for £75,000 damages.
▪ But department administrators dispute those claims, saying the system is on its way to becoming the finest in the nation.
▪ The California Department of Insurance has 372 disputed claims on its books.
▪ The husband disputes the claim, on the ground that there was no consideration for his promise.
fact
▪ Also, it is usually possible to dispute the facts themselves by challenging the theory involved in their identification.
▪ It is difficult to dispute the fact that race does make a significant difference in the criminal justice system.
figures
▪ But the management disputes those figures and insists the new service isn't a threat.
view
▪ By examining the coverage of the war over 20 years, Mr Wyatt convincingly disputes this view.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Local residents disputed the police's version of the incident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Firstly, the researchers dispute amongst themselves over the value of experiments where animals need to be used.
▪ He specifically disputed two witnesses who said they saw him slap her.
▪ Jay was not to be disputed on subjects central to his interests.
▪ McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer's grievance procedures to voice his dissent.
▪ Since ancient times people have disputed the actions taken by their neighbours.
▪ They show how these definitions may be disputed by individuals or groups, and how actors negotiate shared rules and ideas.