But over the weekend, BP and Anadarko, a Texas-based oil company, kind of traded barbs over whether Anadarko should be partly responsible because they own 25 percent of the well that is currently gushing.
Thierry Junod, general manager of Montblanc Watch Production, had to deal with all of the barbs from his established competitors.
Although the government's spending plans received a fairly critical reception, most of the barbs (for once) were aimed at the chancellor and his typically labyrinthine new command-and-control systems for monitoring the journey of every tax pound.
One of the common barbs people threw at Groupon, especially in Silicon Valley, was that its business offered no natural barriers of entry.
J. (Sebastian Stan) from bringing ruin to his mother while also protecting him from the tough-love barbs of his father.
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Tom Daschle has every right to discuss foreign policy and to ignore the barbs of Republican blowhards like Mr DeLay.
Indeed he has already been criticised for not using it now, but apparently feels caution and certainty are more important than the barbs of critics - particularly when, to many Americans, the word terrorism is misunderstood to only mean action by foreigners.
For Ms. Andrews, it means Dancing with the Stars and trading barbs with the likes of Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, and Kirk Herbstreet as the first female on the College Football Gameday crew.
Goldman Sachs' head of public relations, the sharp-tongued Lucas van Praag, has gone from deflecting negative publicity about his firm to taking barbs as the subject of a blistering Twitter parody, authored by a group of financial bloggers who are sharp-tongued snarks in their own right.
LaViolette again dodged answering the question directly, and instead explained that Arias lied after the killing in an attempt to "feel normal, " and that there was evidence she had been "flirtatious" with men, but the two traded barbs over the definition of the word manipulative as court adjourned for lunch.
Fortunately, for all the rhetorical barbs, there are some signs of progress.
Kritzer becomes more openly irritable as her character wearies of her mother's impaired thought processes and prickly barbs.
Plenty of controlled aggression can be heard on 30 Year Low's alternate take of "Aspect of an Old Maid" (Okkervil River's Will Sheff sings the male lead on the set's other version), as Bracy and McCardle, each acutely aware of the other's bitterness, frantically trade lines and barbs.
Both times, he has fended off barbs from politicians and said he came to appreciate the full breadth of the wrongdoing only in late 2010.
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