Practising lawyer, litigation.

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Civil affairs, Speciality in litigation.

The result has been disastrous, as ethnic rivalries sharpened.

But France s unilateral approach often antagonizes its European partners.

But power generates opposition, and Germany s alarmed neighbors began to form defensive alliances.

Football has often been called a substitute for war a symbolic, more or less peaceful, way to fight out international rivalries.

Regional rivalries and past history mean that Ethiopia has few natural allies in the region.

Diversity must be a source of richness, not antagonism, and countries that favor the latter must be excluded.

Football matches can, it seems, revive national rivalries and conjure the ghosts of past wars.

In the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, old rivalries now unfold in a nuclear context.

The fall of Muammar el Qaddafi opened a Pandora s box of old rivalries, with Cyrenaica developing into a semi autonomous region known as Barqa.

Raising revenue through tax reform will have to mean reducing the special deductions and exclusions that now lower tax receipts.

Disputes between the United States and Europe are nothing new, as past tensions over Korea, Suez, and Vietnam demonstrate.

Ancient rivalries and atavistic feuds may or may not be part of this only future crisis will tell.

Most are non violent and they fall into two broad categories active engagement with ethnic rivalries and religious beliefs and fair, transparent economic development and provisioning of services.

But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.

As for the rewards, they could be everything from discounts on energy saving appliances and posture enhancing furniture to vouchers from suppliers of healthy foods.

But its successes in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine are creating great anxiety, and even hostility, in some quarters.

To its scattered ethnic groups, it performed the twin roles of referee and bouncer, pacifying indigenous rivalries and protecting pint sized nations from predatory states.

A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.

Yugoslavia is but a miniature version of what might happen in Ukraine if Yanukovich s tactics are allowed to bring ethnic antagonisms to the boiling point.

The risk of litigation has also increased, especially because of a lack of collective representation mechanisms, the presence of vulture investors or the legal implications of bilateral investment treaties.

We have continued to pursue these initiatives in the post Saddam era, engaging in confidence building measures with our immediate neighbors in order to offset extra regional agitations.

For someone with a 15 marginal tax rate, a 2 of AGI cap would limit total deductions and exclusions to about 13 of AGI.

This dynamism could lead to instability, owing to multiple sources of mistrust and the lack of strong regional institutions to help manage rivalries.

26 The risk of litigation has increased with the emergence of vulture funds that would buy distressed sovereign debt on the secondary markets and then sue for full repayment once restructuring negotiations commenced.

Such an overall cap would allow each taxpayer to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.

Europe s historic rivalries have, of course, been civilized into a political model that European diplomats often see as applicable across the international arena.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose

With our neighbors on both shores of the South Atlantic, Brazil is working closely to strengthen the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA), which aims to keep the ocean free from rivalries foreign to it and from nuclear weapons.

One of the most efficient tax raising methods is the US payroll tax, for which the marginal tax rate is close to the average rate (because deductions are absent and there is little graduation in the rate structure).

Having said that, that particular problem is exacerbated in post conflict situations because, very often, the people are not there or have been killed or because in built antagonisms between one side and the other remain.

Even if the cap were applied only to itemized deductions and the health insurance exclusion, it would raise about 250 billion in the first year and about 3 trillion over the first decade.

An overall cap would also cause many individuals who now itemize deductions to shift to the standard deduction implying significant simplification in record keeping and thus an improvement in incentives.

Only a unified, comprehensive approach can manage the forces driving momentous change in the Middle East, prevent outside powers rivalries from complicating the situation further, and ensure a peaceful outcome.

By picking territorial fights with its neighbors, China is not only reinforcing old rivalries, but is also threatening Asia s continued economic renaissance showing that it is not a credible candidate to lead Asia.

If emissions were appropriately restricted, the value of emission rights would be a couple trillion dollars a year no wonder that there is a squabble over who should get them.

SPLM A may face internal challenges in adopting commonly acceptable policies, easing old regional rivalries, fulfilling political and socio economic expectations of its combatants and leaders and addressing the requests of its Leadership Council.

It could also be argued that any claims that arise could be defended in national courts and that action by the COP MOP to institute a regime of privileges and immunities should be taken only after some actual experience of litigation.

That memory must continue to be a vital and constant appeal to all of humanity to rise above destructive antagonisms and to mobilize its energies and utilize its spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical resources to put an end to the scourge of war and to all violations of human dignity.

For decades, Africa s boundaries have been denounced as the artificial and arbitrary work of ignorant and cynical colonial officers, which has contributed to a long train of tribal rivalries, if not ethnic cleansings.

By the 1890 s, Germany was the strongest power on the continent. But power generates opposition, and Germany s alarmed neighbors began to form defensive alliances.