I've had the odd fractious ding-dong along the way, but have always managed to reach a suitable resolution in due course. |
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He was getting fractious and crabby while I was getting panicky because I knew there was something else and I couldn't remember what it was. |
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Suffice to say, I would not recommend this level of preparation when travelling with a fractious three-year-old and a grumpy husband. |
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The youngest children get fractious and older family members get irritable trying to keep the peace. |
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People with pain can be fractious and difficult, and elderly people may not be paragons of charm and cheerfulness. |
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The management is difficult, the people get pretty fractious, and it starts feeling like the early years when one is in Opposition. |
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After going backwards at the election and losing ground in opinion polls since, Opposition MPs are cranky, fractious and looking for answers. |
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One potential course would be a breakdown of central control and a return to fractious regionalism. |
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He was chosen for his ability to unite the fractious coalition and for his ability to connect to people. |
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For all the region's fractious history, its transformation of the range from battle ground to recreation area occurred surprisingly early. |
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The Chancellor has already made it clear to the fractious left wing of the Social Democrats that he will resign if he does not carry the day. |
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At once fractious and oddly meditative, her meticulously composed works have constructivist roots but lean toward a digital present and future. |
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Today after 6 nocturnal tuck-ins I am fractious, volatile and ready to cry. |
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In contrast to this perception, Miller paints a more realistic portrait of a motley and often fractious group of militants. |
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It had always been hoped that the Scottish parliament would divert the attention of fractious Caledonians away from England-bashing. |
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Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious. |
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Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat. |
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This will be a fractious and unstable government, riven by internal factional struggles and backbench rebellions. |
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All the indicators pointed towards a decent game of football although the game's early spell was fractious and ill-tempered. |
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Divided, fractious interests within the fishing community have always made any real policy reform difficult, if not impossible. |
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Congressional Democrats, traditionally a fractious crowd, are standing as one. |
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Nonetheless, with the exception of that final fractious point, this was a good debate. |
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Though well meaning, King was temperamental and sometimes ill, a martinet sea dog who did not easily translate to ruling a fractious young colony. |
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A fractious debate followed, with politicians firmly rooted to their various city-based and sectional attachments. |
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Despite sometimes fractious international relations, football continued to rise in popularity. |
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His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place. |
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Alongside the paranoiac discipline that Tony Blair eventually instilled in his New Labour, the Tories can still look like a fractious rabble. |
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When I sit on a plane and hear a child cry, I don't hear fractious, I hear the music of life. |
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Unfortunately, debates and discussions on how to reform the health system have been fractious and highly charged. |
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Laurie Sansom's production hits its emotional straps, and Jones delivers moving scene after scene of rising, fractious, heart-rending drama and flinty, defiant humour. |
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He was getting fractious and crabby while I was getting panicky. |
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Just as conservatives fail to see how unusual the quiet, relatively crime-free 1950s were, so leftists forget that the fractious 1960s were an anomaly. |
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This displayed much-needed savvy, yet the SNP leader still struggles to impose his authority on his increasingly fractious and directionless party. |
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In fact, they are highly-contested by MPs, so that debate is fractious and the Speaker's authority frequently questioned. |
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Because of the fractious, even fratricidal, nature of local resistance movements, local government officials were often caught between the forces of rival guerrilla chiefs. |
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And I'm usually alright in the morning but by about lunchtime in the afternoon I tend to get very irritable and fractious and I'm not quite sure why. |
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Streamline and coordinate the fragmented and often fractious systems, courts and agencies. |
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You will be unsurprised to hear that Satanists are a rather fractious bunch, with many different organisations, beliefs and rituals. |
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But in a testy and sometimes fractious debate, China was not granted the same favored trading status. |
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Thus all the world's ambition gets funnelled through schools, turning academia into fractious circuses of human conflict and desperately competing agendas. |
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Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check. |
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The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative. |
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He was well aware of the fractious history between Congress and the White House on Gitmo and was determined to start anew. |
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For 110 years, it has remained a fractious but unitary organization. |
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Despite their fractious love-hate relationship, they were a cracking team. |
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Quietly walking away from a fractious partnership with their previous label, the band eventually found a logical home with Roadrunner Records. |
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Since then, Ford has served as the envoy in exile to the fractious Syrian opposition. |
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Contrary experiences about collaboration were shared: it can be fractious and demoralizing. |
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The fractious relationship ended in March 1890, after Wilhelm II and Bismarck quarrelled, and the chancellor resigned days later. |
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Second, it cautions unsuspecting readers, especially those not fully versed in the fractious nature of Kenyan politics and its recent closely contested presidential race, against any such one-sided re-telling of the story. |
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By sheer imposition of the cult of himself, he had held his tribally fractious country together. In this section Muammar Qaddafi Bill Smith ReprintsHe ruled unsparingly. |
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It's here that Knausgaard relates the slow slide of his father into full-blown suicidal dipsomania, Karl Ove's fractious relationship with literary success, his intense self-doubt and sometimes staggering arrogance. |
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We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood. |
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Over there is a tired, disengaged, distracted, fuzzy leader at the head of a directionless, fractious, incompetent, arrogant and corrupt government. |
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According to Abu Ahmed, and two other men who were jailed at Bucca in 2004, the Americans saw him as a fixer who could solve fractious disputes between competing factions and keep the camp quiet. |
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A rare note of harmony was sounded at the fractious UN climate change talks in Doha on Thursday, when countries agreed to take strong action on some of the most potent causes of global warming. |
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Washington DC is already so fractious and petty that if politicians realize they're all part of the big family, that couldn't make things any worse, right? |
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The landmark expulsion – confirmed by the senate speaker at 5.42pm after several hours of fractious debate – followed Berlusconi's definitive conviction for tax fraud at his Mediaset television empire on 1 August. |
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The more sophisticated Arab minds know the divisions Britain and France created in the Middle East have made the Arab world fundamentally fractious and weak, easily subject to exploitation by outsiders. |
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What this would do, I believe, is remove the club that currently exists from the potentially fractious circumstances and permits the separating parties to focus on the issues that require attention. |
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And there's one thing around which all the various and fractious interests in this coast's ongoing rockfish controversy agree-first nations, anglers, commercial fishermen, and conservationists. |
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Would he also agree that the Cyprus problem will remain intractable and the Balkans fractious and unstable should the Union refuse membership to Turkey? |
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The idea of harnessing Slavic nationalism and providing a homeland for the disparate and fractious elements of the South Slavic people was popular at the time and consistent with the principle of self-determination. |
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One of the most important roles a Speaker has to play in the Commons is to preside over that fractious exchange of political opinion known as Question Period. |
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Many of the new states that have emerged lack government structures other than those which existed immediately before, and building new ones has proven difficult and fractious. |
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For instance, further legislation could smooth federal-provincial relations on health care policy, an overlapping jurisdiction marked by fractious relations and considerable posturing. |
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The show's fractious PR fusspots warned that Maria would be too pooped to talk or be photographed after the trip until she'd rested. |
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While fans of the radio show may miss its fractious energy they should be appeased by the lavish illustrations and bountiful in-jokes. |
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Relations with Beijing have been fractious ever since. |
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Cassius Dio records that the new Governor, Virius Lupus, was obliged to buy peace from a fractious northern tribe known as the Maeatae. |
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As negotiations became increasingly fractious, Bonaparte gave orders to his general Moreau to strike Austria once more. |
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Albany, seemingly in no hurry to return to the fractious northern kingdom, suggested that she resume the regency herself. |
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Karen Fielding's book American Sycamore is a funny and sometimes fractious tale about growing up in a small town. |
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Its normally fractious political leadership rallied together in the face of the supply cutoff, united in their demand that the Kremlin pay more for the right to transship gas through Ukraine. |
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However, upon the death of the 8th Earl of Kildare, governor of Ireland, fractious Irish politics combined with a more ambitious Henry to cause trouble. |
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