"The bilateral relationship cannot afford prolonged disputes like this on tiny issues."

The prolonged dispute at the trial was chiefly concerning dates.

The evening has worn on me like some prolonged dispute.

The commission's affirmative action policy has been the focus of a prolonged dispute between Congress and the executive branch.

He was also notable for his involvement in a number of exceptionally bitter and prolonged electoral disputes.

They have settled one prolonged dispute over banana imports in Europe.

In fact, each side understood that Thursday's decision was simply the end of just one more battle in a prolonged dispute over free agency.

On Nov. 2, 1996, after a prolonged dispute with his landlord over lease details, the station went off the air.

If there is a prolonged dispute, going to the courts, the military might take it as an excuse to prolong their stay.

In July 1905 he resigned from this post after a prolonged dispute about payment and his right to take on students for extra tuition.