Investors have been less eager to come, pointing to projects that have fallen victim to past political sparring.

I very much fear that we both lost temper, and that our discussion degenerated into a species of political sparring.

And LIGO isn't an outlier; all big discoveries in physics inevitably follow a meandering (and costly) path of scientific labor and political sparring.

On Monday, Whitmer, who said she would cut her pay by 10% during the outbreak, said now was not the time for political sparring.

The flare-up in political sparring came as the number of known coronavirus infections in the United States surpassed 700,000, the most of any country.