The rancor exceeds mere disagreement.

Recent history strongly suggests that this will be a bad year, and not because of mere substantive disagreements (though there are plenty of those).

In the days before political correctness, such newsroom battles were sometimes seen as racial disputes, personality conflicts or mere disagreements in a subjective business.

And clearly the recent rise in black anti-Semitism points to a new bitterness that goes well beyond mere disagreement.

"The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement."

To which, the author comments, "For Fidel, an enemy was anyone who displayed the merest disagreement with his ideas."

At the end, it was not a military incident which caused the revolution, but a mere political disagreement that led to anarchy.

Thus it ruled that the mere disagreement of parents with state-sponsored schooling is not a ground for denying a child an education.

But even so, there is no constitutional violation in following the majority view; Article II is unconcerned with mere disagreements about interpretive merits.

A protester s mere disagreement with a procuring agency s judgment is insufficient to establish that the agency acted unreasonably.