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Perhaps those two eastern sophisticates, Mr Dervis and Mr Khalilzad, should cut through the squabbling and sort the matter out.

It had a functioning democracy, but ever-squabbling politicians seemed unable to get things done.

A year ago the Tories had a double-digit lead over a ragged and squabbling Labour Party. The election seemed theirs for the losing.

The Tories would like to install elected police commissioners, but are squabbling internally about how much power to give them.

When the mother could bear the children's squabbling no longer, she grabbed them both by the hair and knocked their heads together.

The state of the world's economy means politicians are looking for any excuse to save money. Not a good moment to be squabbling.

Once upon a time there were a brother and sister squabbling over an apple, with each insisting on the larger slice.

While squabbling continues in Kathmandu, organic devolution is taking place in many mutinous places.

Do you suppose he might have been addressing the two people he mentioned in verse 2, Euodia and Syntyche, who were squabbling?

"You have to see it to believe it, " says Ms Hanson, recalling children squabbling for a turn solving sums online.

Mark: You two are already squabbling like an old married couple.

In 1960, after years of squabbling, India and Pakistan agreed to share control over the tributaries of Kashmiri rivers.

Among the foreign diplomats looking on, optimists refer to the squabbling coalition as an "unconsummated marriage" .

Jake: Are you making fun of me? Or are you still mad at me because of that stupid squabbling we had the other day?

The next presidential election is not until 2014, but already three big beaks are squabbling over who should be the candidate.

Squabbling and fighting over the remains, they leave nothing behind but a frame of bones, which bleach white in the hot African sun.

Certainly, the United States should not keep an army in Iraq just to glower at Iran and protect Iraq's perpetually squabbling politicians.

The empowerment of the Sudairis brought continuity to the system, preventing the recurrence of open squabbling.

I'm sick of you two squabbling just cut it out! .

Even Sun Hung Kai Properties has been able to rise above fraternal squabbling , building what will be the territory's tallest skyscrapers .

The warning comes as the United States, China, European and other nations continue squabbling over the value of currencies.

The present loud squabbling in Congress and by the president does not boost one's confidence in this happening.

Beijing is concerned enough about the risk of default from the U. S. after the unseemly squabbling over the debt ceiling.

Already China is squabbling fiercely with Asian neighbors as protectionist talk around the world rises alarmingly.

IT HAS been only a month since South Sudan split from the north. Already, however, the new neighbours are squabbling.

Regardless of the reason, too much squabbling is associated with a greater risk of developing depression before age 50.

A piercing wail erupted from all sides, and a squabbling mixture of annoyance, relief and curiosity filtered into my mind.

His revenge is to produce another earthquake which sinks the whole island and its squabbling cargo into sea.

But he represented them very essentially, they were far behind, out of date, squabbling for their material equality.

America's fiscal peril is easy to see, but the pilots are squabbling over the controls while the economy hurtles towards disaster.

In Sandzak a huge amount of community property is at stake, but nothing will be returned so long as the groups are squabbling.

The squabbling takes place against a background of worrying misuse of the security and intelligence services for political advantage.

Or maybe the prospect of a new president in Washington in 2009 will concentrate the minds of the squabbling politicians in Baghdad.

Dave and Sol- leks alone were unaltered, though they were made irritable by the unending squabbling.

She never scolds her children for squabbling. Instead, she gives them a few words of praise when they play quietly.

Reform was relegated to an expanding number of squabbling bureaucracies.

The death knell comes in the form of squabbling among a horde of family shareholders.

With pre-season games only a month away, further squabbling could cost the NFL as much as $200m for each missed week of practice.

They detest the squabbling, the exhausting scrutiny and the messy business of having to answer personal questions and explain themselves.

The boys were squabbling about who was the best runner.

To escape this crisis, Ukraine does indeed need the squabbling duo to set aside their rivalry: and not just for show.

Mr Abhisit has tried to reassure nervous Thais that his squabbling, nine-month-old coalition government is on good terms with the army.

History suggests that technocrats do best when blitzing the mess made by incompetent and squabbling politicians.

Squabbling between the CDU and FDP was suicidal, but so, apparently, was compromise.

Most of the cards have been dealt and the politicians have been squabbling among themselves.

There is little doubt, however, that Mr Thaksin held sway over the splintered, squabbling leadership of the UDD.

Hess says if political squabbling really worried lenders, they would raise interest rates they charge on loans to Washington.

Corruption and squabbling inside the ruling Orange coalition have paralysed governance.

The attack on their country united squabbling political factions in a common purpose.

She never scolds her chelloldren for squabbling. Instead, she gives them a few words of praise when they play quietly.

The money the two sides were squabbling over represents just 0. 04 % of the federal budget.

But it was not big enough for both his sons, who soon fell to squabbling.

But the floods have also highlighted how bad Pakistan's selfish, squabbling politicians are at working together.

Too often the allocation of profits and investments was unclear, leading to endless squabbling .

They were continually squabbling over trifles.

Perhaps they no longer believe that a gathering of squabbling pirates can defeat the Flying Dutchman.

That was the background against which Europe's squabbling leaders met on September 1st.

The entire pride will feed tonight. There's no squabbling for space. The buffalo accommodates them all.

Formally, the process only applies to indigenous groups, prompting squabbling over who can use that label.

These squabbling Tolstoys and their stilted histrionics were conceited and exasperating.

While squabbling governments pull each others' pigtails, Singapore is quietly engaging in some grown-up policymaking.

Two squabbling political parties have run the country throughout its history, but in 2007 a military caretaker government was in charge.

This in turn has led to squabbling among nations at a level that hasn't been seen since 1957, when the Treaty of Rome was signed.

And the Democrats have started squabbling among themselves, as is their custom.

Yet the Socialists are their own worst enemies, and their squabbling could undo them.

Right now, three squabbling generals jostle for control.

Can the prospect of better EU ties unite Bosnia's squabbling politicians?

Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears.

Amid the squabbling, important work is being neglected.

I have married for eight years, almost squabbling with my wife once a half month during the period.

Hu's plan died amid intense squabbling , people involved in the effort said.

That was because of a new bout of squabbling between Mr Uribe, the opposition and the judges that has overshadowed the bills.

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With just days until the election, the candidates are squabbling over how best to give business, and the economy, a boost.

squabbling with their neighbors in an effort to win a new car plant.

As the supply of work shrinks, the squabbling will only intensify.

They are continually squabbling over trifles.

The boy was squabbling with his young sister over bits of bread.

For far too long we have seen squabbling in the Labor party, which has obscured the government's achievements.

The real shortcoming is that Latvia's squabbling politicians have ducked deeper changes in the public sector and the civil service.

One day I was criticizing my children for squabbling. "Can you never play peacefully? "

The experts, however, say such squabbling is healthy, even if we are catching up very late in the day.

Would that our squabbling leaders in the Middle East could do the same.

And so Jama Khan's land lay fallow for 30 years after his death, his family squabbling over his inheritance all the while.

Tom keeps squabbling with his sister about who is going to use the bicycle.

"Are there three people in this debate, not two? This kind of squabbling, how many children is this going to get health care? " he asked.

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