If you enjoy engaging in office politics or family squabbles, this is might be a much better alternative that does far less harm to others. |
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They're a family whose internal squabbles have been tabloid catnip for decades. |
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In the mid-1850s, Scott's squabbles with Secretary of War Jefferson Davis were legendary. |
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Until Congress and the FDA resolve their legal squabbles, consumers are on their own. |
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The squabbles about the International Criminal Court indicate that some states are more equal than others. |
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As adults, we tend to think children's squabbles are unnecessary, that they are trivia blown up out of all proportion. |
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I learnt that, being the eldest, any arguments and squabbles would nearly always result in a smack for me. |
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He spent his time reading omnivorously and engaging in doctrinal squabbles with other left-wing German refugees. |
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They were friends, and had had their share of squabbles and fights in the past, but this was different. |
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It's amazing how one strong and loving personality can keep all the petty squabbles in check. |
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We've survived distance, illness and family squabbles and with every challenge we overcome, we get a little closer. |
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He doesn't have time for his family's petty squabbles, or lounging around in bars with his mates. |
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Certainly the petty political squabbles could prove embarrassing if extensively reported on. |
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And there were more family squabbles as he fell out publicly with his brothers, sisters and father. |
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Perhaps there were too few passengers for it to make economic sense, or maybe there were squabbles over the price of landing charges. |
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Along with the tears and squabbles comes an interesting insight into the male psyche. |
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Simon's temporary return as a supply teacher was a welcome relief, providing a long-lost focus to the cast's squabbles. |
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Surely Mother Nature meting out carnage on such a grand scale shows just how petty and futile man-made squabbles really are. |
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More widely known for its petty squabbles and back-biting, the women's game closed ranks in support of Morariu. |
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He managed to end the rows and squabbles in his party and made a rather good impression in the debates. |
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However, petty squabbles begin to drive the team apart just before their rematch with the Yankees for the league championship. |
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Player indiscipline, boardroom squabbles and unrest in the stands all contributed to his eventual sacking last year. |
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A snarling confrontation, there were far too many injudicious challenges and petty personal squabbles to allow football to flow. |
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It will not be surprising if all football activities are put on hold because of these ongoing squabbles. |
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I know about previous squabbles and financial disasters that affected the club. |
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There were similar endless squabbles over how things should be run, and by whom, and a population of battlers trying to rise a little in the world. |
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The industry should put aside its traditional squabbles and get it up and running. |
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And they frequently engaged in petty-minded bureaucratic squabbles with rival organizations. |
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It's a matter of channeling all that energy that was previously ill-used in trivial squabbles and using it for more bold change. |
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The coalition is riven by ideological splits and statehouse squabbles and Mr Anwar's legal troubles have unsettled it further. |
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It must be chastening for Australia's leaders that their squabbles seem irrelevant. |
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When new sets of people arrive, they have many things on their minds, and no interest in the squabbles and timeworn resentments of others. |
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Even events of the most serious nature get overshadowed by the political squabbles that will result as both sides attempt to leverage the issue to their advantage. |
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Brat behaviour, undignified squabbles over money, followed by rapid decline. |
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For us to succeed, we need to put aside our petty squabbles and the interinstitutional rivalries. |
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But a coach should hold himself to a higher standard than getting into ineloquent squabbles with players and fans. |
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The way ahead is bright and boisterous, full of scraps and squabbles, break-ups and make-ups. |
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Let the Times staff fight out their own professional squabbles. |
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These days our squabbles have taken a more controlled and grown-up turn. |
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For a long time their optimal semiotic structure was the object of sharp debates, but now the squabbles appear over. |
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At the Pegasus bridge museum, curator Mark Worthington has no time for local squabbles. |
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There have been minor squabbles between the various elements, but overall the system has worked happily for everyone for a lot of years. |
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Rather than getting bogged down in nationalistic squabbles, we should not lose sight of the vision of a great Europe. |
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As soon as there is an opportunity to stir up federal-provincial squabbles, they go ahead and do it. |
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There is nothing worse than having investigation offices putting all their energy into mutual competence-based squabbles. |
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Regional power squabbles affecting Lebanon have deepened the rift between political groups. |
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It would seem that both he and the Prime Minister were too busy with their own internal squabbles. |
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We also recommend that we learn from the management mistakes, the unfair competition and the intergovernmental squabbles. |
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Tonight, TV's No.1 judge lays down the law on family squabbles. |
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There is a danger that loss of political momentum and squabbles over other arms control issues could lead to the negotiations running into the sand. |
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Other than potential squabbles with Mary, serving again to prove how headstrong she is, where would the drama have come from? |
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A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past. |
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But, as with most of these squabbles, he has been punished through sheer bureaucratic frogmarching as much as if he had been found guilty of thoughtcrime. |
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Who cares about the squabbles between billionaires and millionaires? |
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Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles. |
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More familiar, but less important, were the internal squabbles and petty jealousies among civil rights leaders that hindered, but never hamstrung, the movement for justice. |
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These petty squabbles half a hemisphere away are not helping us at all. |
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It will end up in squabbles and this does solve the problems. |
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A repressive, reproachful, anxious or melodramatic attitude does not help the children and is likely to stir up more angry feelings, whereas, left to themselves, squabbles between children are usually resolved very quickly. |
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But modern aesthetic squabbles notwithstanding, it is thanks to the modern voices who keep singing it-and to modern music lovers who keep listening to it-that this art refuses to die. |
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A supervisor who views you as his ace will stand up for you if intracompany squabbles break out and you are at the epicenter. |
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Debate in Poland is dominated by squabbles between two parties. |
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Mr. Yvan Loubier: Even the best families have their squabbles. |
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Defence, European Union squabbles, and national sovereignty are as interesting as gumboils to most of us. |
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Are we to understand that the Minister of Finance is also announcing that he wants to go over the heads of the provinces and deal directly with municipalities, at the risk of squabbles with the provinces? |
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I have just told my group that this is going to spark off squabbles within the groups, since, if I were to get all my experts to speak, I would need more speaking time than has been made available to us. |
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One school of thought blames artistic squabbles. |
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We believe there should be an established compensation formula for public health emergencies to avoid squabbles over the money while patients suffer. |
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We need the criteria of business and industrial efficiency and the most up-to-date innovations to take precedence over outdated political squabbles. |
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Hilariously henpecked by his wife — their constant squabbles are the inverse of Carlos and the Queen's camp romance — the dictator is almost entirely passive, an old man losing his grip on power. |
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Earlier squabbles have had long-lasting impact. |
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Perspectival conflicts also occur in the context of local conflicts of which they are a recent episode: the project may feed conflicts between a region's entrepreneurs or may fan local political squabbles, etc. |
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His skills as a delegator, and as an arbitrator of squabbles, became especially useful in sifting through cabinet officers' wildly differing agendas. |
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They put their own petty squabbles first, and the rest is history. |
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Wherever the disembarkment point is, they arrive fresh-faced and eager, and certainly aware of the tribulations ahead: heavy drinking, meaningless squabbles that might escalate into violence, a chance at a new life. |
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My bitter little heart warmed a smidgin to find that there are tensions and squabbles at the spaceport and that the Shard premises are far from sold out. |
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Students loved that, and how he timed his lectures to the second. He had no time for academic squabbles and protocol, brushing off rebukes and bureaucratic constraints. |
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Like any family, we have our share of differences, squabbles and jealousies, but when times are difficult it is good to be part of a big family whose members are willing to come to one another's aid. |
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While we sympathize with the calls for fair burden-sharing when it comes to illegals, Europe faces a bigger immigration problem if Frontex is handicapped by political squabbles. |
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She attends to patients in their homes, reading to them, playing Scrabble with them and lending an ear for their end-of-life family squabbles, which she said erupted more often than people might think. |
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Europe's family squabbles Reprints Related items The restless Caribbean: Unhappy islandersFeb 19th 2009In many ways, the troubles in Guadeloupe and Martinique are specific. |
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The meaning of life, the purpose of politics, who'd win the rugby league grand final, what girls we planned to ask out, petty squabbles we might have had with our parents. |
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The book begins with an overview of the various squabbles that embroiled the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
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Efforts to establish a regional operations centre, where intelligence could be shared and responses co-ordinated, have foundered among squabbles over its location. |
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We cannot prevent people, for money reasons, to cross this border between two countries that have been neighbours and friends for centuries, despite their squabbles. |
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The military power of individual barons declined, and the Tudor court became a place where baronial squabbles were decided with the influence of the monarch. |
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During their youth, their squabbles had divided Rome into two factions. |
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Then, all these...government legislators...would be able to totally concentrate on their roles and functions, without being entangled in interparty sledging and squabbles. |
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Two Kinds of Angel is set in a flat where the squabbles of the two main characters are inter cut with flashbacks to the lives of their respective alter egos. |
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