Sentence examples for Fractious meeting from inspiring English sources

Before Ms. Greybull, a Sioux, spoke in favor of the animals last fall at a fractious meeting in Glasgow, dozens of farmers and ranchers walked out in protest.

The prime minister made the surprising offer after a fractious meeting with her cabinet, and said she would seek a second delay to Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.

She will make a statement to the Commons on Monday before facing a fractious meeting of the backbench 1922 committee in the evening.

But during an unusually fractious meeting, some officials worried that the gains might not be sustainable and argued that it was "prudent" to postpone retreat, according to the account.

The potentially fractious meeting is meant to allay suspicions that the United States is putting too much focus on securing a nuclear deal with Iran – their common foe – at the expense of their defence interests.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, flew into Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday to preside over what is expected to be the most fractious meeting the leaders of the worldwide Anglican communion have held in modern times.

No longer: rumours abound in the City of fractious meetings and calls for various heads.

It was, of course, the historically fractious meetings between the two nations, and in particular the umpiring on each side, that led to the introduction of neutral umpires in the first place.

He omitted to mention the fractious meetings that took place months beforehand, the irritation of many military commanders – and the remarkable mistake that provoked so much anguish across Whitehall.

On Feb. 9, following 17 months of intense negotiations, numerous late-night conference calls and not a few fractious meetings where all seemed hopeless, five of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders agreed to a historic $25 billion settlement that will provide financial relief to more than a million homeowners who were victims of improper foreclosures or other mortgage servicing abuses.

This led to some fractious meetings of the Commonwealth.