Sentence examples for on squabbling from inspiring English sources

Although since February such an outcome has proved elusive, the 87-year-old president made it clear in an emotional speech on Monday that his decision to stand for an unprecedented second seven-year term – a crucial step in resolving the stalemate – was dependent on squabbling politicians behaving themselves.

"I was very, very disappointed," says Schulte-Noelle, who blames the collapse on squabbling between the two banks' in-house investment bankers.

Pundits like to focus on squabbling between Democratic and Republican politicians, but it's experiences such as these that perhaps most corrode general faith in American institutions.

Endlessly, at least on the social web, picking on, bullying, squabbling with, decrying, outraged at, one another... for nothing that means anything at all.

On the one hand, a bunch of squabbling Democrats; on the other, the commander-in-chief addressing Congress and the country.

You know what though, I really think there was a lot of squabbling on there this year.

He quoted a prophecy of Muhammad to the effect that a sign of the Apocalypse would be a wave of squabbling on the streets.

Yet while "Philistines," too, portrayed a world of squabbling bourgeoisie on the eve of its destruction, it pulsed with a sense of individual, acutely observed life.

Once again, Republicans and even some Democrats said, Mr. Kerry appeared on the verge of squabbling with the antiwar base of his party.

It assumes a position of flawless moral wisdom and figures the concerned bomb-dropping western powers as wise teachers breaking up a gang of squabbling children on the playground.

Cue stages that were as crowded as the dancefloor, as MCs piled on to squabble over the mic.