The skirmish is the latest in the Catalans' long war to defend their language.
Mr Watson, who was not on board, claims the skirmish happened in international waters, making it an act of piracy.
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What that means, though, is if the skirmish intensifies or if other entities become involved, gold prices could rise, Pavilonis said.
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Nearly 60 people were wounded in the skirmish, the officials said.
The skirmish promptly threatened to become a full-scale trade war.
The skirmish in Bulo Marer, about 75 miles northwest of the capital Mogadishu, ended with a French soldier and 17 Islamist fighters dead, according to the French Defense Ministry.
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This week, key states are playing leapfrog in the skirmish for early primary dates, some personal questions for presidential candidates, world leaders take a holiday, but not the leaders of Iraq and Iran.
The Broadcom-Qualcomm battle has echoes of the skirmish between Intel and AMD over PC chips, except theirs is a war over three key sockets in a smartphone: the processor (brain), the modem, and the connectivity combo chip.
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The skirmish in New Jersey is the latest escalation between PokerStars and the big U.S. casino industry, which for years grew frustrated that PokerStars was operating a U.S. facing web site and claiming that U.S. law did not prohibit online poker.
This evidence session could be the first skirmish between the government and the Commission, after the long and exhaustive evidence-gathering effort they began in the autumn.
The next skirmish is over the labeling of naughty fats on food packages.
The latest skirmish has firmly buried the possibility of a rapprochement between the brothers which was being talked about some months ago.
The biggest skirmish may be with teachers, or, more precisely, with their unions.
Next our crew heads to Evanston for the Northwestern skirmish against Central Michigan.
This hearing will be pretty much the final act of pre-legislative scrutiny by the committee, under the senior Labour peer, Lord Richard - and I suspect that it will really be the opening skirmish in what promises to be a long and intricate battle to enact Lords reform.
Asking that question shouldn't be the start of a new skirmish in the stay-at-home mom vs. working mom debate.
Streaming video, delivered over the Internet, is about to engage traditional TV in a skirmish in the looming war for screen time.
The much-covered legal skirmish came to an end in April of this year, when the Weinsteins agreed to pay NBC what is believed to be a mulitmillion-dollar settlement fee.
Whether the report presages a victory so resounding that it ends the long war, or just another inconclusive skirmish, now depends on the 100 battle-hardened warriors of the Senate.
The lawn was wet from rain, which shortened the match to a 20-minute skirmish, but spirits remained high on the pitch.
But unfortunately this is just one skirmish in the numerous smartphone patent wars among tech companies.
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Even before this latest skirmish in the culture wars, Mr Romney lagged behind Barack Obama by several points among women voters.
Watch out for a major skirmish over the programme motion for the Report Stage (see previous post) in which the Conservative Edward Leigh and an impressive array of cross-party allies seek to ensure their new clause on "insulting behaviour" is not kicked to the back of the queue of amendments and never debated.
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Llanelli lock Chris Wyatt left the field with a nasty cut above his eye after a skirmish with Chris Anthony, but the referee decided to keep his red and yellow cards firmly in his pocket.
The five have a lot at stake in this legal skirmish, which has remained largely out of the public eye.
Wonder, a rival emporium in Manhattan, raising the possibility of a legal skirmish.
Down on the plains, idling in traffic, I saw a skirmish line of four hunters marching across a tilled field directly beside the road, with houses crowded close on the other three sides.
"Each network doesn't have to have its own man or woman on the scene at every river that overflows its banks, every border where there's a skirmish, every town up and down the coast battening down for a hurricane, " Hewitt said Thursday at the Frank Gannett Lecture series at the Freedom Forum.
Apart from one skirmish in 2009, the Malian army left them to it.
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