Even Pir Gailani, a much revered religious leader, was accused by other delegates of trying to start a quarrel by bringing his daughters to the gathering, Ms. Gailani said.
In a summit meeting, world leaders tend to focus more on exchanging in-depth views, rather than on starting a quarrel.
She felt that it was not worth getting angry and starting a quarrel when the solution was simple: just refuse to comply with future demands.
They may be just trying to start a quarrel, so don't let them.
Is she quick to start a quarrel from nothing or does she only rarely lose her patience?
He was under great strain when his wife started a violent quarrel over their child.
"What she wrote started a national quarrel," "CBS Reports" announced in a one-hour special, "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson," in which footage of Carson was intercut with footage of government and industry spokesmen, to create a de-facto debate.
Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.
After a lawsuit with a moneylender, and quarrels with prominent noblemen, he started a controversy with Maupertuis (the president of Frederick's academy of science, the Berlin Academy) on scientific matters.
