| The drama centres on twin sisters, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, and the ugly squabble over who gets to inherit Allandale, the family farm. |
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| The family did get into the occasional squabble over the latest dance crazes. |
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| Or is this essentially a squabble among the political prostitutes of corporate America over the best method for conducting their sordid business? |
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| It had been a long day, and she honestly didn't want to mediate another squabble. |
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| The blame here cannot be laid on some interagency squabble between, say, the State Department and the Pentagon. |
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| He thinks the current dust-up about electronic voting is a political squabble. |
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| There has been an unseemly behind-the-scenes squabble within the public sector over tourism's fate. |
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| No sooner was peace signed than the victors began to squabble among themselves. |
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| Individual directors may disagree, bicker, dispute, squabble, fight or even disobey the chairman. |
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| A neighbours' squabble over late-night noise ended in court before a circuit judge, 12 jurors and two barristers. |
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| Refaeli got involved in the squabble herself with a pair of near-identical tweets written in Hebrew. |
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| Sometimes we squabble, but most of the time we're the best of friends. |
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| The status quo will go, just as it will go with regard to the squabble between separatists and federalists. |
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| Both sides of the political spectrum are equally to blame as they squabble over issues of little import to us. |
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| And squabble they do, sometimes so fiercely and technically that the public loses interest. |
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| Amid the affection and companionship, children squabble, compete and get in each others' hair as they learn how to get along with people. |
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| In one sense, it seems a petty and personal squabble within a small political faction. |
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| This indicates that the affair cannot be dismissed as an internal political squabble. |
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| We are here to work for the best of everyone in our country, not just to sit in this chamber and squabble about who gets to control power. |
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| The issues were too grave to be swamped by a squabble about culture, the argument went. |
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| And we squabble, to be sure, but we're in an extended family and that's what I want to talk about today. |
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| No one was to be left behind in a squabble of linguistic subtleties camouflaging a fundamental and persisting disagreement. |
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| There the squabble might have ended if not for The New York Times and its then-executive editor, Howell Raines. |
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| The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait. |
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| Bachmann and Cain squabble Asked about foreign aid, Perry called for defunding the United Nations. |
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| They're having a family squabble and want to suck in the rest of us. |
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| We'll still squabble like children, because you can't change human nature. |
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| While evidence continues to mount that humans are heating the globe, the world's nations squabble over a complex fix too timid to solve the problem. |
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| Often I'm interrupted with calls from home with something as minor as a squabble, which is very distracting. |
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| The crowd that accumulated to watch the squabble reportedly applauded and cheered as Bieber fled the scene. |
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| Gwen's eyes widened, but again the would-be squabble was headed off. |
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| The kids are obviously having a blast recreating the sort of histrionics they see on TV, and they squabble over who has the funniest part in the production. |
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| At the time, the renamed corner caused a slight international squabble and demands for its removal. |
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| This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble. |
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| The polemic launched by Charlotte's father resulted in a squabble that only served to increase the family's fame. |
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| It's harder to get stirred up by a dispute over whether or not foundation hospitals' borrowing limits should be subject to Treasury control. But this squabble matters more than the polls suggest. |
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| We are thrown fiercely into the squabble here, Tony Bell's rancorous and blubbery Billy Bones subsiding later into the reasoned West Country tones of Captain Smollett. |
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| The refinement of the cuisine doesn't prevent a sense of free-for-all — couples dabble wantonly in each other's entrées, groups squabble over prospective Vice-Presidential candidates while knocking back shiso juleps. |
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| Its main flaw is a deficit of action, especially in the first hour: by default, the first-act climax becomes a squabble between two of the women — stereotypical catfight stuff. |
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| Sometimes the squabble is heartfelt on one side or on both. |
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| 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. |
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| I want to ask the parliamentary secretary, what guarantee can the Minister of Canadian Heritage give people in television production that they are not about to become casualities in a leadership squabble? |
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| On the other, blues and greens squabble on the coastal strip. |
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| This is not some family squabble between Britain and Zimbabwe. |
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| They shut it down because there was a squabble between the Stó:lõ Nation and the Yale Band over who would do the test fisheries to calibrate that. |
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| In fact, the report made by ONE yesterday said that it would be unfortunate if a major initiative on maternal and child health got sidetracked or diverted over a squabble that Canadians did not want debated. |
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| These decisions, however, were tarnished by an unseemly squabble among some Member States about the location of European agencies which reflected the worst features of the old way of running Europe. |
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| Now when I am in a squabble, when somebody hurts me or doesn't think the way I do, I breathe very deeply, I imagine a blue light around me, it helps me to regain my calm. |
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| I was under the impression that he would not give us the chance, since he had said that he would not interfere in what he dubbed a family squabble. |
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| The forum will address problems of water scarcity, the risk of conflict as countries squabble over rivers, lakes and aquifers, and how to provide clean water and sanitation to billions. |
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| In the mean time, Spain, Greece and the Netherlands squabble about distribution criteria: migratory pressure, kilometres of borders or the number of entries by air. |
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| We simply point out, without wanting to squabble, that there is a problem. |
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| Otto prevailed for a while after Philip was murdered in a private squabble in 1208, until he began to also claim Sicily. |
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| This squabble led Kulmiye's government to reship and bar refugees away. |
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| The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. |
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| Some posters left the online message board after the squabble. |
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| This left a vacuum of power in Wales in which princes and kings were free to squabble over their lands, without the unifying presence of Gruffudd to ward off Norman attacks. |
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