Day-to-day resilience is as necessary in New York as a wet suit in ice water, in part to deal with fractiousness of the city's own creation. |
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For all of our fractiousness and various feints left, right and center, we are the grown up party. |
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The devolution of authority to local officials has brought some benefits, to be sure, but it has also exacerbated the fractiousness of the country's already chaotic politics. |
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There was the inevitable fractiousness among them arising from geography and language and the perpetual disdain of academics for clinicians. |
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If professional managers are to be dominant, and if the methods chosen to advise them are suspect, or lead to fractiousness, decisions are likely to be dominated by political values. |
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A certain fractiousness seems to be endemic to every form of human association: religion generates schismatics and heretics, states generate secessionists and dissidents, even families produce black sheep and divorcés. |
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His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. |
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