No sooner was the home rule government up and running last week than Sinn Fein dominated debate with an argument over whether its ministers would allow the British flag to fly over public buildings they now occupied.
So it is surely an additional problem that the Labour leadership is radiating so little enthusiasm for mounting a vigorous campaign for an In vote with the result that the debate on the airwaves is being dominated by arguments between rival flavours of Conservative.
The three female justices also dominated Supreme Court arguments in the last term.
"For too long, education policy has been dominated by arguments about structures.
He dominated oral arguments, when new Justices are expected to hang back.
The next five years could be dominated by arguments between Punjab and the rival parties which run other provinces.
In less than a year, Neil Gorsuch has dominated oral arguments, lectured his colleagues, and given dubiously appropriate public speeches.
They don't understand how a race for the American presidency can be dominated by arguments over missing emails, "birtherism" and beauty queens.
The leadership race is dominated by arguments about repositioning on old axes of left and right; southern middle-class aspiration and northern working-class solidarity; Blairism and anything-but-Blairism.
The Brussels summit was dominated by arguments over energy savings and climate policy, with countries from Poland to Portugal pleading special circumstances and threatening to veto any breakthrough unless their demands were met.
