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... disputes - resistance remaining in reorganised sections (13)

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I believe the answer is:

controversies

'disputes' is the definition.
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'resistance remaining in reorganised sections' is the wordplay.
'resistance' becomes 'r' (electronics abbreviation).
'remaining' becomes 'over' (as in 'we ate them all but had one over').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'reorganised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'r'+'over'='rover'
'sections' with letters rearranged gives 'contsies'.
'rover' going inside 'contsies' is 'CONTROVERSIES'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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