What sort of disputes did ordinary people bring to court?
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Thedisputethus centred on the value of visual evidence from different observers during the famine and in the past.
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Uncertainty, linguistic or otherwise, may lead to legal disputes.
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They also disputed whether an identity specific to the province really exists.
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Here, we think, thedisputereally is just about words.
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It was also more centrally directed and so labour disputes easily became politicized.
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Already, however, we find some authors ready todisputethe use of the term "model" for one or other of these examples.
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If so, disputes over end-of-life treatments could be resolved without requiring hospitals to go to court.
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The more interdependent the less economically dependent state, the more constrained it will be from engaging in adisputeand the more peaceful the dyad.
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This could easily be disputed by a consequentionalist egalitarian (economist).
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Beyond this, such institutional features contributed to disputes among church members, thereby hampering the overall efficacy of the organisations.
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Dubious weighing procedures set off countless disputes between planters and mill owners.
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Eventually, this has created an apparent incongruity between the waterdisputeresolution mechanism and its operational environment, thereby adversely affecting the efficiency of the former.
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When disputes arose about which category a citation should be allocated to, or its relevance to the report, we attempted to resolve them by discussion.
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Thus, encouraging inter-agency and public involvement meant that, when points of contention arose later in the process, participants had little leverage fordispute.
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acrimonious dispute
None the less, a great deal of acrimonious dispute, at local borough level, could be avoided if we actually found out what we can measure.
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alternative dispute resolution
Moreover, bureaucrats have struggled to preserve their powers in the context of regulatory reform by assuming new administrative functions involvingalternativedisputeresolution.
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bitter dispute
An awkward andbitterdisputewas avoided because of the imposition of schedule 11.
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