Sentence examples for a squabble over from inspiring English sources

PAGE 1 A SQUABBLE OVER BAUBLES A 14-carat-diamond ring estimated to be worth up to $15 million was supposed to be the centerpiece of a much-hyped auction of antique jewelry by Christie's.

Mr. Shakur was convicted in what was characterized by prosecutors as a squabble over car payments.

It seems petty now, she said: a squabble over a car and a blown engine.

Some United Nations officials in Kinshasa, the Congo capital, saw the perennial fighting in Kisangani as a squabble over spoils.

"This has declined into a squabble over semantics," said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.

It opens with a squabble over tempo between James Bradley, the leader and first violinist of the Bradley Quartet, and his younger colleague, Hal.

Then he became involved in a public squabble over a meeting with the new head of KPMG while the S.E.C. was considering suing that firm over its Xerox audits.

With the emergence of popular nationalism across Asia, it is high time that the Obama administrations, and its successors, stop dismissing the ongoing territorial disputes as a petty squabble over a bunch of uninhabitable rocks.

Yet the question arises why there was a need for the two countries to engage in such a childish squabble over some comments by a celebrity?

Later it is revealed that Smurf and J's mother were estranged for years after a bitter squabble over the rules of a card game.

Earlier this year, the United Nations group became embroiled in an industry squabble over an open standard for commerce known as ebXML.