Sentence examples for a fierce spat between from inspiring English sources

But the recent reports were quickly picked up across the country, sparking a fierce spat between national and state political leaders.

The state is having a fierce spat with neighbouring Canada on the messy subject of garbage imports.

Instead, the minister with responsibility for biodiversity found himself in a fierce spat with some of Britain's leading ecologists.

A firm stance by the United States over its Okinawa bases coincided with rising worries in Japan about China's naval ambitions, further underlined this week by a fierce diplomatic spat over several uninhabited islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China.

All the more interesting, therefore, to read (link in Estonian) that Mr Luzkhov may be planning to move from Moscow (where he was deposed in a fierce public spat with the federal leadership) to, er, Latvia.

The week passed without a quarrel, apart from an ugly spat between a margay and the parrot.

This often produced a fierce conflict between church and state.

The offensive sparked a fierce battle between the militants and government forces, supported by US airstrikes.

IS THIS just a spat between a big prickly country and its tiresome little neighbour, or a sinister new twist in Russia's relations with its former empire?

And what is the evidence that it is the focus of a fierce arms race between host and pathogen?

"It was a little spat between brothers," Coach Michel Therrien said.