If the dispute broke in favor of the Republicans, they'd see that the last Federal troops were withdrawn from the South.

In 2001, a long-running dispute about the identity of the Guardian broke the group into schism.

Last week the dispute broke into the open.

At my gym, an ugly dispute broke out one morning over who had the right to determine if the fans would go on.

But a dispute immediately broke out among committee Republicans over the scope of the inquiry.

The dispute, which had been building all year, broke into the open in mid-July.

A dispute broke out Tuesday over widespread street closures that the American security services were said to be demanding.

A partisan dispute broke into the open at the start of today's hearing.

At the opening session of the finance ministers' meeting today, the dispute with Japan broke into the open.

The dispute was not breaking entirely along partisan lines.