She refused, and there has been acrimonious back-and-forth over the proposed merger ever since.
Some even accuse Liesel of vicariously reliving her mother Irene's acrimonious divorce from her father, Robert.
The prolonged and often acrimonious discussions over Barry's move are still developing on Wednesday.
If American unemployment were rising and world trade talks had turned acrimonious, that might change.
Unfortunately, in this particularly acrimonious mid-term election year, that is not going to happen.
Acrimonious divorces were exploited by some unscrupulous lawyers to maximise their earnings, Mr Sampson said.
This dynamic eventually became the source of an acrimonious dispute between the two men.
Google's app is a victory for the search firm in its increasingly acrimonious battle with Apple.
Potentially acrimonious family discussions sometimes are diffused by the presence of a paid professional.
One board member, he discovered, was going through an acrimonious divorce--a fact the director had never mentioned.
In the story, I escalated the tension into a genuine conflict that resulted in an acrimonious breakup.
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Mr Pischetsrieder was fired 13 months ago after a long and acrimonious meeting of the supervisory board.
Details have also emerged of an acrimonious four-year dispute involving another senior radiologist and Great Ormond Street.
China relies on Australia for imports of iron ore, the price negotiations for which are increasingly acrimonious.
It is all likely to make for a more acrimonious election when one is at last called.
This can be an expensive and an embarrassing ordeal, and for many families involves unpleasant, even acrimonious, exchanges.
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The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally the very last hour.
But he left three months after the company's acrimonious split in 1989 into consulting and tax and audit groups.
Acrimonious battles have raged for years over the correct monikers for certain shrimp, snails, fruit flies, butterflies and dinosaurs.
But at the same time, they say it is going to be too acrimonious to delve into past wrongs.
One had in effect had his job abolished, another had resigned, worn out by acrimonious clashes with Labour councillors.
During 2010, she had also experienced a second, acrimonious divorce and failed IVF fertility treatment with her new partner.
Most everyone expects the fireworks and acrimonious battle will be worse than what had preceded the fiscal cliff debate.
Ms Relf's death led to an acrimonious written exchange between Mr Smith and the head of Ofsted, Chris Woodhead.
If it becomes too contentious or acrimonious when it happens, the company could very well fail and everyone will lose.
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The writers have been negotiating off and on with entertainment-industry producers since the summer, and those negotiations have been acrimonious.
Even on the aircraft dispute, the shift to an independent arbiter may be more constructive than endless acrimonious bilateral negotiations.
Odinga's acrimonious loss to President Mwai Kibaki in 2007 triggered violence that ended only after the international community stepped in.
By the genteel standards of the House of Lords, it was a particularly acrimonious debate, with coalition tensions laid bare.
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