And while many of the meetings have gone quite smoothly, others have exploded with pushing and shoving, yelling and name calling.
Employers say the vast majority of bullying incidents are verbal abuse, such as shouting, swearing and name-calling, along with malicious gossip, rumors and lies.
The U.S. needs to interrupt its angry divisiveness and name-calling long enough to recognize the portent of what is going on.
The rally was billed as an event to celebrate return to reason, a step back from the shouting and name-calling prevalent in the current political climate.
Conservative justice spokesman John Lamont said the issue of the role of the Supreme Court had been marred by "much tub-thumping and name-calling" on the part of the Scottish Government.
Of course the governing body of world football, Fifa, whose leader once told us that players should just shake hands and avoid name calling, pays the same lip service to the promised eradication of race-fuelled disagreements, but nothing changes.
The divisions are particularly apparent in Bolivia's Congress, where debates are often heated and characterized by name-calling and insults.
Whether, individually, we are conservatives or liberals or somewhere in the middle, we have a right to expect the people who have been hired to solve the country's problems to do just that, and to spare us the name-calling and blame-shifting.
"Mayor Bloomberg's failure to work with labor unions and drop cooperation in favor of name-calling and vitriol has been harmful to our city, " Mr. Thompson said.
He goes up to the jet-bridge and stands at the open door of the plane, greeting customers and calling out the name of his intended catch.
Quit the name calling and make the last weeks about leadership and solutions.
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"The receptionist said he couldn't come in, but he kept running around with balloons and calling my name, " she says.
The report can be accessed over the Internet, letting company bean counters identify users by name and track their calling patterns.
Everyone calling Paul a Fox shill are just name calling and missing the opportunity for a greater debate around our current laws and whether or not they are just.
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It was a diplomatic effort to avoid prolonging headlines about harsh statements Sunday from Issa and a former White House official that escalated the controversy into a full-fledged Washington political imbroglio, including name-calling and references to decades-old allegations of wrongdoing.
For the most part, experienced atheists control the discussion and dominate the opposition without name-calling because our side simply has more ammunition behind it and we sit in a far more reasonable position than most theists, who have a huge burden of proof to meet.
President Obama has tried to engage with America's long-time foe, Iran, issuing a video address to both the people and leaders of Iran and calling the country by its official name, the Islamic Republic Iran, to signal that Washington was not seeking regime change.
After speaking out, Wright became a target of criticism, name-calling and worse from fans who said the sign was a harmless joke.
Miss Gabbidon said in evidence she had previously ignored name-calling and racial comments from the teenage girl, although she was expelled for a short time after the alleged incident involving the monkey noises.
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They cited specific details, from format to font to details of name-calling and pi-reciting (which, of course, led to a long tangential discussion of pi and how to remember beyond the 46th digit, high or not).
In the Newsroom, however, Sorkin has taken a page from Jon Stewart by showing actual newsclips and calling out newsmakers by name.
In the varied business and social environments I inhabited I never once observed name calling, praise or degradation of physical characteristics or criticism of anything other than a business decision and this too with immense care and respect.
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AirAsia has proposed using its own brand name for the new airline and calling the Indian venture AirAsia (India) Pvt.
Relentless competitions, name-calling, hair pulling and blame shifting plague households with two or more children everywhere.
Prince committed suicide in January after five months of name-calling, harassing text messages and threats in the halls of her high school.
For the next couple of hours, Tarannum walked the narrow lanes of Nighasan village - 150km (100 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow - calling out Sonam's name and asking the neighbours if they had seen the girl.
He said Mr Ege fell to his knees with a loud bang and started crying, calling out his son's name.
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She accepted the name-calling as part of her life and seemed to understand that crying or fighting back only made it worse.
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