Sentence examples for picking a quarrel from inspiring English sources

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

The women were accused of "picking a quarrel" by Chinese authorities after they had planned a campaign in opposition to sexual harassment on March 6, International Woman's Day.

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.

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

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).

But if you're going to pick a quarrel with a serious street fighter such as Branson you'd better get your story straight and stick to it.

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.

If Seward does not "pick a quarrel with us," wrote Lyons on another occasion, it would not be because "of the insanity which doing so at this crisis … would seem to indicate".

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.