7 sentences with 'disputes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word disputes and other words derived from it.
• « Private law governed disputes between individuals (e.g., property suits, disputes between business partners), while public law governed disputes between individuals and the government (e.g., violent crimes that were considered a threat to the social order as a whole). »
• « Muhammad was particularly well known as a fair and shrewd arbiter of disputes between other Arab tribes and traders. »
• « Europeans soon referred to the Ottoman Empire as the 'sick man of Europe', and disputes over Ottoman territory became a growing source of tension between the European great powers by mid-century. »
• « In the decades that followed, succession disputes within the Qajar line were settled by Russia and Britain choosing the heir to the Qajar throne, a blatant violation of Persian sovereignty. »
• « The scale of that violence on a global scale far exceeded any of the relatively petty disputes that had constituted European warfare itself up to that point - the only European war to approach the level of bloodshed caused by imperialism was probably the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, but imperialism's death toll was far greater still. »
• « On the world stage there were constant disputes between the great powers over their colonies, especially as those colonies were pitted against each other in Africa and Asia. However, violence in the colonies was almost always directed at the native peoples of those colonies, and there the balance of power was squarely on the side of the Europeans. Thus, even European soldiers overseas were inexperienced in facing enemies armed with comparable weapons. »
• « When the new scientists of the 17th century reproduced the same experience, but with a test tube containing mercury to prove the existence of atmospheric pressure, they had to have terrible disputes with the wise men of the time. »