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It's either that or spend the next two years listening to Miliband and Cameron bicker over who's got the bigger peashooter to aim at the banks.
As others bicker , it has gone about building community centres, mosques, primary and secondary schools and clinics.
In 2009 the isthmus saw nearly 19,000 murders or 45 per 100,000 people, making it the most violent place in the world.While the mafias are untroubled by national boundaries, Central America's governments bicker over them.
Efforts to form a coalition will be complicated, however, by the fact that Fortuyn's followers had not elected a successor to replace him in the days before the election and had already begun to bicker.
Today, he says, a growing number of families want to be buried in France, where their French children can pay visits.Members of France's official Muslim body, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), bicker interminably at national level.
Sub-regional trade groups such as Mercosur and the Andean Community, which made progress in the 1990s, have stagnated or fallen apart.Yet while the politicians bicker , corporate Latin America is quietly moving closer together.
Yet even in the most collaborative Congress, both sides would duck the issue, preferring instead to bicker over the mere 15% of the budget (excluding defence) that it re-authorises each year.America has changed since the days of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
The swipes at Mr Bouteflika, it is thought, may have been occasioned by a dispute over who should be promoted into, and who should be retired out of, the charmed circle of military power brokers.As the generals bicker , Algeria sinks deeper into crisis.
They bicker , miscommunicate, fall in love and perform operations against a tapestry of cross-cultural desire, political change and colourful symptomatology at the sweetly named Missing Hospital on the edge of Addis Ababa.
Agreeing on how to combat the problem is tricky, given that experts continue to bicker on what, precisely, makes us fat.
From 1905, when Russia lost its war with Japan, the southern part of Sakhalin was ruled by the Japanese; it was taken back in 1945, along with four smaller islands that the two countries still bicker over.
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In its most common usage, "bicker" acts as an intransitive verb meaning to quarrel in a petty or petulant way. According to Ludwig AI , the term is correctly used to describe repetitive, tiresome disagreements. While it can technically function as a noun, modern usage heavily favors the verb form.
Expression frequency: Very common
