Word Finder - disagreement

definition

An argument or debate.

example

They had a bit of a disagreement about what color to paint the bedroom, but they have reached a compromise.

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A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

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The theory shows considerable disagreement with the data.

We were in strong disagreement over continuing.

Brown, who described experiments which were in disagreement with Pasteur's dictum.

Our disagreement is mainly personal.

It is true that there is much disagreement over how to achieve these ideals, but the fact remains we want a just society for all.

There he organized a school which, under him, soon became one of the most flourishing in the north of Europe, but a disagreement with Marshal Munich led him, in spite of the empress's offers of high advancement, to return to central Europe in 1765.

There was, however, a fundamental disagreement in the tactical ideas of the senior and those of the junior officers.

If it be true that knowledge lies only in the agreement or disagreement of ideas, the visions of an enthusiast and the reasonings of a sober man will be equally certain.

The most prominent examples of disagreement with earlier sources may be briefly noticed.

It established the usual type of government under a bailiff (schout) and judicial assessors (scabini, or schoppenen), the overlord's supremacy being guarded, and an appeal lying from the court of the scabini, in case of their disagreement, to Utrecht.

A disagreement with Peru in 1828 resulted in the invasion of Ecuador and the temporary occupation of Cuenca and Guayaquil by Peruvian forces; but peace was restored in the following year after the Ecuadorian victory at Tarqui.

We solved any disagreement by discussing with each other.

In 1867 he attempted unsuccessfully to form a cabinet sufficiently strong to prevent the threatened Garibaldian incursion into the papal states, and two years later failed in a similar attempt, through disagreement with Lanza concerning the army estimates.

This difference, however, did not amount to disagreement.

All costs of resolving the disagreement must be paid by the party whose argument is rejected.

This caused a disagreement between Alabama and the United States authorities; although it was amicably settled, it engendered a feeling that the pulicy of the national government might not be in harmony wD.h the interests of the state - a feeling which, intensified by the slavery agitation, did much to cause secession in 1861.

This decision greatly irritated the political leaders of Georgia, and the question of extinguishing the Indian titles, on which there had long been a disagreement, caused further and even more serious friction between the Federal and state authorities.

Secondly, in case of serious disagreement, diplomacy having failed, they agree to have recourse, as far as circumstances allow, to the good offices or mediation of one or more friendly powers.

From this date until the Belgian revolt of 1830, the history of Holland and Belgium is that of two portions of one political entity, but in the relations of those two portions were to be found from the very outset fundamental causes 183v tending to disagreement and separation.

Even on the cardinal point on which Aristotle entered into direct controversy with Plato, the definite disagreement between the two is less than at first appears; the objections of the disciple hit that part of the master's system that was rather imagined than thought; the main positive result of Platonic speculation only gains in distinctness by the application of Aristotelian analysis.

President Jackson was ready to use force against the state; and the tariff, over which the whole disagreement had arisen, was changed in such a way as to effect a compromise with the state.

In discussing nutrition, not only is there little agreement on the nature of the solutions, there is often disagreement on the nature of the problems.

There is a bit of disagreement over the practicality of monokinis.

Gabriel leaned his hip against the counter and crossed his arms in physical disagreement.

Others, who were conscious of disagreement with the theology of the last thousand years, had now to meet disputants of a more serious type than the adversaries of Luther, and to meet them unsupported by experts of their own.

There was some disagreement about whether parish precepts affected the capping of the Boroughs council tax setting.

There is, however, a violent disagreement regarding the desirability and the results of his course.

External evidence for Palestine, in emphasizing the necessity for a reconsideration of the serious difficulties in the Old Testament, Summary and in illustrating at once its agreement and still more perplexing disagreement with contemporary conditions, furnishes a more striking proof of its uniqueness and of its permanent value.

Inevitably, a book of this brevity on a topic of such great controversy will provoke some disagreement.

The only way to express disagreement was through silence.

There simply is a profound disagreement about what you do with the bible.

The battle concerns a fundamental disagreement about the nature of life.

Either way, there is no real moral disagreement in these cases.

During the 19th century observations of the positions of the planet Uranus were seen to be in disagreement with the predicted ephemeris.

The disagreement gained momentum and eventually the bishop of Carlisle and the royal exchequer were called upon to resolve the matter.

This course will greatly lessen the chances of disagreement between the two.

The disagreement between Mark and Stevie gets more pronounced as the play progresses until they clash violently together near the end.

There is disagreement about whether loyalist violence is essentially reactive, but certainly the pattern of loyalist violence has shadowed republican violence.

This large residuum of reasonable disagreement leads on to the second response to the limit-setting problem.

Also disagreement over whether it would promote or discourage thrift.

In 1074 Gregory actually assembled a considerable army; but his disagreement with Robert Guiscard, followed by the outbreak of the war of investitures, hindered the realization of his plans, and the only result was a precedent and a suggestion for the events of 1095.

But as the theory of evolution was accepted, a new spirit was gradually introduced into Christian theology, which has turned the controversies between religion and science into other channels and removed the temptation to flaunt a disagreement.

Still a general observance was involved in the idea of a natural law as a " dictate of right reason indicating the agreement or disagreement of an act with man's rational and social nature "; and we may observe that it was especially necessary to assume such a general observance in the case of contracts, since it was by an " express or tacit pact " that the right of property (as distinct from the mere right to noninterference during use) was held by him to have been instituted.

The younger sister knows exactly how to foment a disagreement between her older brothers.

If you must discuss something that may turn into a disagreement, do it while your children are out of the house.

Finding common ground in the midst of a disagreement is a great way to manage anger in the workplace.

Parroting is the term that psychologists use to describe the process of taking the time, when you are in the middle of a disagreement, to say, or to parrot back, exactly what the other person has said.

Whether you are just having a disagreement or you've broken up, these types of poems can help you identify and overcome the sadness you feel inside.

You cannot recover from a disagreement or a break up without feeling the pain it has caused you.

Katie Price fired nanny Rebecca Gauld after the two had a disagreement about holiday time off while filming Price's documentary, The Baby Diaries.

Ryan's daughter Tatum, did not like the fact that he was in a relationship with Farrah and this disagreement strained their father/daughter relationship to a breaking point.