But for a certain few, it is a year-round project, or obsession, that expends more energy on internal quarrels than on selecting the next grand marshal -- which is, come to think of it, a source of bickering in itself.
At the end of the day it's just becoming a classic party with its internal quarrels".
Some of the schisms were theological conflicts foreshadowed in the apostolic church; others were internal quarrels related to liturgical differences, power politics between different patriarchates or church centres, problems of discipline and piety, or social and cultural conflicts.
Not even the nearing prospect of Clinton in the White House has seemed to inspire Republicans to abandon the internal quarrels that have dominated the Party for five years: in debates, the anti-Clinton rhetoric has been curiously anodyne.
To fight terror successfully, great powers must put aside internal quarrels and set up a joint task force acting on behalf of, but independently from, governments.
Far from glossing over such issues, Ms Baram lays bare the paper's internal quarrels.
He knew that war was not only a question of victory or defeat, glorious as the Greek victory was, but brought its own consequences in its train, including the internal quarrels and rivalry between the leading Greek city-states, quarreling that was to later culminate in the devastating internecine strife of the Peloponnesian War (431 404 bce).
Even before the defeat last week, the Free Democrats were quickly losing ground and riven with internal quarrels.
More: this conflict now eclipses familiar internal quarrels between secular and religious, Sunni and Shia or left and right.
In the east, except for a brief period when the petty state of Denia (Dāniyah) built a powerful fleet that enabled it to stage incursions throughout the western Mediterranean as far as Sardinia, the various ṭāʾifas preserved a certain static and dynastic equilibrium; farther to the north, the various ṭāʾifas also spent their time embroiled in interminable internal quarrels.
