They matter at the minute only in terms of local squabbles.
Israel, usually a party to local squabbles, is ducking out of this one, protesting innocence.
At the Pegasus bridge museum, curator Mark Worthington has no time for local squabbles.
Local squabbles, with the potential to spread, are likely to emerge with increasing frequency around fixed water points, between rival pastoralists or else pastoralists and farmers.
That fight is by far the bigger political story in the state and has already dragged both of the presidential hopefuls into the kind of sticky, local squabble that they would normally rather avoid.
The "friendship" that people like the older Daley enjoyed with voters, and the involvement Chicagoans once felt in national debates, has ebbed away into a series of local squabbles over things like utility bills.
Against Manchester City in Sunday's 170th edition of the local squabble the Sky Blues' famous "We're not really here" chant might have been rewritten to feature Rooney as the subject, so invisible was he.
Much more than a local squabble between the two losing semi-finalists, the match served as a barometer of England's impressive progress since Silvia Neid's side swatted them aside 3-0 in a friendly at Wembley last November.
Such incidents often have their roots in petty local squabbles, but their tendency to take nasty sectarian turns has left Copts feeling vulnerable, making them cling even more tightly to their church.Some observers detect signs that the wave of religiosity which started in the 1970s may have crested.
Steve Clarke's men were not as stellar as City had been but, though United rallied towards the end, the sense was of a home display almost as insipid as the one they turned in during that 166th edition of the local squabble.
