Sentence examples for always fractious from inspiring English sources

The game was always fractious with five bookings alongside Milner's red.

The split in the always fractious opposition virtually assures that Mr. Milosevic, who has ruled Serbia from various offices since 1987, will win another four years in power in September.

Relations between the two, always fractious, probably weren't helped by the publication last year of Richards's rollicking autobiography, Life, in which he claimed – among other things – that Jagger was "unbearable" and in possession of "a tiny todger… he's got an enormous pair of balls – but it doesn't quite fill the gap".

A defection to rugby union (let alone AFL) is usually met with variations of "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!", which is hardly surprising given the history of rugby league and its always fractious relationship with its cousin in corduroy.

The man, understood to be an ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar, arrived in Phnom Penh as always-fractious political tensions inside Cambodia escalated further, and the UN warned the country was headed towards "a dangerous tipping point".

It was always a fractious alliance.

Her relationship with Skyler has always been fractious, but it's largely been about Marie screwing up and Skyler picking up the pieces.

Free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, supported by both parties, have been stalled because the Democrats want ratification linked to renewal of a worker-training programme and Republicans do not.American politics has always been fractious; that is part of its strength.

America's relationship with world bodies like the UN and UNESCO has always been fractious.

Things are complicated, as always in this fractious land.

Modern Syria has always been a fractious place.