Sentence examples for picked a quarrel from inspiring English sources

The vagueness of the "crime" of "picking quarrels" – authorities didn't say who Pu allegedly picked a quarrel with, or about what — allows police unlimited discretion to detain and arrest offenders for almost any action.

It was an axiom of British politics that one never picked a quarrel with the pope or the National Union of Mineworkers.

Instead of retiring, he picked a quarrel with The Corsair, a newspaper known for its liberal political sympathies but more famous as a scandal sheet that used satire to skewer the establishment.

Having picked a quarrel with James III of Majorca, he reincorporated the possessions of the Majorcan crown, namely the Balearic Islands and Roussillon, by force into his own dominions (1343 44).

The new queen, however, warned of the authority exercised by the princess, picked a quarrel with her at their first meeting (Dec. 23, 1714), and immediately exiled her from Spain.

If, for instance, we assume for a minute that they have reason to believe the French deliberately picked a quarrel with Prussia, they can neither express such a belief nor state its grounds without embarrassing extremely the diplomatic intercourse with the French empire, and giving the French people ground to suspect that our neutrality may easily be changed into hostility.

By L. H. Crimp and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, July 30 , 1938P. 7 From Far-Off Liverpool, a man writes to tell us about a dead-end tot's waterfront hovel whose wall bears the chalked legend, "The Pick A Quarrel Gang".

I tried to pick a quarrel with my father.

You should be on an energy-pumping high - but don't accidentally pick a quarrel.

According to their lawyers, the women have been accused of "picking a quarrel and creating a disturbance".

He could also be cantankerous, trying but failing to pick a quarrel with Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review.