| They concentrated on simple, direct promises to voters, while the other parties squabbled over more esoteric issues like EU expansion. |
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| The dispute spiralled as the neighbours squabbled over the boundary line running along their drive when Mr Johnson wanted to build a garage. |
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| Our four-year-old twins have fought and squabbled since they grasped the concept of owning anything. |
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| At Monday's meeting of the Council the members originally squabbled among themselves as to whether or not to give the go-ahead. |
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| Simple cakes – Victoria sponge, jam buns, marble cake – and squabbled over the wooden spoon afterwards. |
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| Though they squabbled and argued and even fought on occasion, Joe adored his brother and was delighted to see him on the road to recovery at last. |
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| But while the congressmen squabbled amongst themselves and berated the witnesses, this all felt like prelude. |
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| For almost fifteen years now, the two republics have squabbled over money, European Union status and, you guessed it, borders. |
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| While Boehner and the Democrats squabbled over relatively meaningless cuts, the president sat back and played referee. |
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| Most recently, with private capital nearly unavailable, Silverstein and the Port Authority have squabbled over funding. |
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| The order of appearance was everything and the four women squabbled viciously over it. |
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| But the candidacy of the ruling Peronist party is being squabbled over by half a dozen contenders. |
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| Various political factions, both elected and unelected, cobbled together governments that oversaw steady economic growth even as they squabbled and scrapped for the spoils. |
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| This year, the two sides have squabbled bitterly over establishing a mechanism for distributing relief funds, donated after last December's devastating tsunami, in Tiger-controlled areas. |
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| It did not matter so much that the pair squabbled. |
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| As many fellow-Members have already said, for no fewer than seven years, people have debated, squabbled and, even worse, occasionally ignored the subject altogether. |
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| Rajoelina, Ravalomanana, and two other ex-leaders, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy have since squabbled for months over who should hold which top jobs in a consensus government. |
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| Now his seat has been squabbled over and apparently assigned by the NSW right to Deb O'Neill, the Labor MP who lost the lower house seat of Robertson on 7 September. |
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| The Senate squabbled perpetually, repeatedly blocked important land reforms and refused to give the equestrian class a larger say in the government. |
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