Sentence examples for heated wrangling from inspiring English sources

This is after all an establishment that has played host to Prime Ministers (Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George famously had some very heated wrangling in the elegant dining room) and inspired the meeting place for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

BRUSSELS — During heated wrangling late last year over the size of a new long-term budget for the European Union, Notre Europe, a Paris-based policy group, wanted to make its voice heard.

Amid heated wrangling between pro- and anti-whaling nations, a beefed-up version of the original resolution was submitted with provisions for whale sanctuaries, added by Chile.

By the day's end, Mr. Karzai had backed down, agreeing to inaugurate the newly elected lawmakers, which finally took place Wednesday after months of heated wrangling over the fairness of last fall's elections.

After nine days of heated wrangling, delegates at the global conference on racism agreed to a document that condemns the "abhorent barbarism" of the slave trade and the "plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation," but does not single out Israel for criticism.

Just as implausible were Mr. Gore's dressed-down forays into public, meant to telegraph a "What, me worry?" demeanor against a backdrop of increasingly heated legal wrangling.

Mr. Gray's literate dialogue flows copiously as the men recall happier times, the temperature in the room sliding from heated to frigid and back again as they wrangle over this important transaction.

A SHARPLY divided America has given President Barack Obama a second term: an extraordinary result given economic fundamentals that should have doomed the incumbent, according to the usual rules of electoral gravity.Scotching fears of drawn-out legal wrangling over disputed ballots in dead-heat races, the result became clear soon after the polls closed on the west coast.

By early 1671, fighting between Marguerite Louise and Vittoria became so heated that a contemporary remarked that "the Pitti Palace has become the devil's own abode, and from morn till midnight only the noise of wrangling and abuse could be heard".

Squirrel wrangling?

Further wrangling followed.