Sentence examples for squabble from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the squabble is heartfelt on one side or on both.

The "prolonged struggle" that Wilby refers to was a brief squabble about parity, which ended in 1884 with the Parsee, Hindu and Muslim communities each being given land for their own gymkhanas.

This has barely even counted as a campaign, more an opportunity for some of the world's least charismatic nimrods to squabble over a maximum of about 10 seats with a mixture of empty buzzwords and gaspingly insincere stop-offs at regional scotch egg factories.

We're both enraptured by the unfolding squabble between a woman in a conservative getup, excepting the red-streaked hair just peaking out from underneath her black headscarf, and the chador-cloaked morality police officer accosting her.

So, in reality, the row over how many days the UK's flag can flutter on top of the green dome of City Hall in Belfast is more about an inter-communal squabble over symbols strictly within the confines of Northern Ireland.

Instead, a squabble between the two is poisoning the atmosphere in Afghanistan, with potentially disastrous long-term consequences.The immediate cause of the row is last month's bungled opening of a Taliban political office in Doha.

Its effort has sparked a squabble among the country's financial regulators.Derivatives can be used to hedge all kinds of risks, from a sharp rise in jet-fuel prices to a currency swing that could reduce the value of an export sale.

And without a leader bigger than the party, the PT's out-and-out socialists will be more likely to squabble with its social-democratic reformers.

The bickering culminated in a late autumn squabble about the attorney-general's job.

And he squandered his biggest chance of influence in the 1990s because of a petulant squabble with the Clinton administration.

It's with a soft "g", as in badger).Both men saw the monarchy as embodying the "dignified" parts of the state, conveying serene continuity while politicians squabble.