There were no sensational or overpowering entries, and no passionate disputes among the judges.

I cannot remember that particular meeting - nor am I very proud of it - but the point illustrates the sometimes passionate disputes which can erupt during the annual public-spending negotiations.

In this was the origin of the passionate American political dispute about the "two China" policy and eventual recognition of the Communist Government in Beijing.

But any substantive debate over reorganizing intelligence and security functions quickly became overshadowed by a passionate ideological dispute over union rights.

In both cases, Sheik bin Baz and other members of the ulema overruled more radical clerics in passionate disputes over whether the step was religiously permissible.

Mary in her diaries refers to "violent and passionate disputes".

This offended the original group of disciples, who wanted to remain a more exclusively Jewish sect, and they broke with Paul after a very passionate dispute.

The late 70's was not known for student activism, and Lazio and his friends didn't spend much time engaged in passionate political disputes.

The title to formerly Arab-ruled East Jerusalem has been in passionate dispute since the Arab-provoked 1967 war, when Israel united a divided city by force of arms.

JUAREZ being our border, our neighbor and the site of our passionate disputes, it is hard to duck some sense of American responsibility for its ills.