Sentence examples for ever fractious from inspiring English sources

There is plenty of voluble criticism in this ever fractious country about the way the war is being conducted, but heavy losses in one fierce battle on Wednesday - nine soldiers killed - have hardened the national mood.

But the ever-fractious European tribes have learned their lesson.

Across an ever-fractious political spectrum, he has been applauded for putting his country before his party.

The first came courtesy of that ever-fractious opposition, which did something completely unprecedented: they united, forming a coalition to contest the upcoming 2015 elections.

The two parties have vastly diverging world views, standing well apart on issues such as illegal migration, Greece's ever-fractious relationship with Nato rival Turkey, gay marriage and the role of the Greek Orthodox church.

Mr Assad's tightening grip over the most populous cities along a north-south axis in Syria's west has dimmed the prospects, always faint, of peace talks that were said to be in the offing in Geneva.Meanwhile, the fighting opposition inside Syria is growing ever more fractious.

So reads an amendment to a bill that the Oklahoma legislature passed on 5 April by a vote of 99 to 0. Although the measure is likely to be scuttled in committee, church-state watchdogs say it is a sign that state debates over teaching evolution in public schools are getting ever more fractious.

It was always a fractious alliance.

Tilting northward could leave Mr Farage more powerful than ever, but with a fractious, divided party.

But at best it's a Humpty Dumpty alliance, fragile and fractious as ever".

Were that to happen, however, it would further splinter an already fractious and ever more Islamist alliance of groups fighting the Syrian regime.