Sentence examples for bitter squabbles from inspiring English sources

Confidence in a government divided by old political rifts and more recent bitter squabbles, is tumbling.

After years of bitter squabbles over identity politics and the merits of the Clinton administration, the left appeared to have reclaimed its anti-corporate heritage and was growing.

Depressingly, perhaps, for fans of rock excess and bitter squabbles over money, U2 turn out to have a history of financial savvy to induce envy in the sharpest City investor.

So it was to be expected that as the richer, closer-to-New York, somewhat more cosmopolitan Nassau County experienced bitter squabbles among lawmakers, an insurance scandal that cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, and severe budget shortfalls, Suffolk rested on its laurels, which included a genial lawmaking process, a solid budget, and few governmental scandals.

They have left behind a world of rural hardship — a place where poor, Irish-speaking farmers eke out a living selling seaweed and periwinkles and coaxing potatoes out of rocky soil — only to find the bitter squabbles and petty pretensions of their villages continuing unabated in the ground.

But nor can it retreat without triggering a bitter squabble over Chávez's legacy.

A truce was achieved after bitter squabbling that did little for the party's public image.

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.

Bowman was Coffey's coach at the start of the season before a bitter squabble ended with Coffey being traded, very much against his will.

After a bitter squabble with the panel's chief counsel, Mr. Gonzalez quit, asserting that elements of organized crime were succeeding in keeping the truth obscured.

On the diplomatic front, it was Paris that was to set the tone for a year of rancorous exchanges between Europe and Washington and bitter squabbling between the EU member states over the wisdom of the war in Iraq.