My abiding memory is of an acrimonious meeting of British Steel where he was much name-called for closures.

After the last acrimonious meeting, he'd insisted on bringing his full complement of guards to this one.

Ironically the virtual lovers, Abhik and Brinda have an acrimonious first meeting in the real world.

We were reluctant, of course, to part with them and after several increasingly acrimonious meetings we decided to part with each other instead.

These were six years of intense and sometimes acrimonious meetings along with an occasional public hearing.

At an acrimonious meeting, this group won the most votes, but several key figures - including Laxer - walked out.

That glimpse on television was the first that Julian had seen of his father since the acrimonious meeting at Kenwood eight months earlier.

Now they were holding awkward, sometimes acrimonious meetings, badly managed and very sad, because they knew it was all over bar the shouting.

On August 13, 2007, and after "three acrimonious public meetings .

After a series of acrimonious meetings, negotiations broke down and the association entered a work-to-rule campaign by refusing to patrol or hand out fines.