Sentence examples for rumpus from inspiring English sources

In August, Caroline Kennedy, the US ambassador to Japan, caused a minor diplomatic rumpus when she tweeted that she was "deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing".

The meeting of European sports ministers in Leipzig last Thursday was clouded beforehand by the rumpus over Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, refusing to sit down with Dave Richards, English football's multi-hatted administrator, who had been invited in one of his newer capacities as chairman of the European Professional Leagues grouping.

Mentioning some of his weaker characteristics, including compulsive womanising, unimpressive aviation skills, childishness and egoism, often causes a rumpus during public debates where Saint-Ex fans are as zealous as religious fundamentalists.

But the rumpus in Britain reflects a deeper and more subtle argument dividing school staff rooms around the world one with broader consequences.

But the ensuing political rumpus led to Indian states being allowed to set tougher rules on their turf.

But the twitchiest reaction was at Amnesty International.Cage caused the rumpus after one of its leading lights described Mr Emwazi as "kind", "gentle" and "a beautiful young man".

What could easily have been a diplomatic rumpus instead became a token of tentative co-operation.

However, in the last year especially, there have been similar arguments in many parts of the former Yugoslavia.Last August Fatmir Besimi, the Macedonian minister of defence, and an Albanian, caused a rumpus when he laid flowers at a memorial to members of the ethnic Albanian, National Liberation Army who had died fighting the Macedonian security services in 2001.

Like the Democrats, he is going through the motions.Towards a non-oil futureIndeed, when people look back on the current rumpus, they may muse most on the way oil has declined as a political issue.

Some 10,000 senior members of the former ruling party, which dominated Tunisian politics for five decades, have been banned from running for office.So why the rumpus?

Even before he addressed the assembly, he had created his usual rumpus on his arrival in the United States by calling homosexuality "ugly", denying the Holocaust, and describing Israel as a mere "disturbance" in Middle East history that would be "eliminated".