Tobin undertook long jurisdictional battles with many unions during this period.

Projects in other cities have been stalled in the planning stages by jurisdictional battles, miscalculations and inadequate resources.

Even as jurisdictional battles increased, local building trades councils had formed in most major cities by 1897.

The Coast Guard and the Customs Service, for example, were locked in a jurisdictional battle over smuggling for more than a year.

Some suppliers foresee jurisdictional battles with Nassau County, which hired a consultant to draft a countywide water management plan.

He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles.

It was a coalition of unions, each based on strong local chapters; the AFL coordinated their work in cities and prevented jurisdictional battles.

Donovan was the nominal director of this unwieldy system, but was plagued over the course of the next year with jurisdictional battles.

A jurisdictional battle over which agency should have gone in first in the takedown was about to erupt.

The last bill was derailed by a jurisdictional battle between the agencies that regulate the futures and securities markets.