I would not have been surprised if she had used it with live ammo and despatched the squabbling members of her family. |
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Yet, predictably, there is no consensus across the political spectrum, just the usual bickering and farmyard squabbling. |
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And coming up, lawmakers may be squabbling over its merits, but students of business are studying up on outsourcing. |
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It saves squabbling if you specify who inherits each item or the proceeds of liquidation of that asset. |
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We have grown accustomed to the public squabbling between millionaire football club managers. |
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Like a man driving a carload of squabbling children to a distant beach, he was determined to look on the bright side. |
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Cassandra jumped skittishly as the door banged shut, suddenly dampening the sound of Randy's squabbling parents, leaving her in silence. |
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Then again, is this seemingly eternal squabbling over the qualifying system really necessary? |
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Mr Milnes said New Zealanders were squabbling over tax cuts while the environment was showing signs of stress. |
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Last week, the Education Secretary was squabbling with the Deputy Prime Minister over school reforms. |
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Last night the former lovers were squabbling over the origin of William's middle name, Sanders. |
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One of the biggest cultural events in Manchester could be shelved due to squabbling among the organisers. |
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The great majority of councillors' time is devoted to the interminable squabbling amongst Nimby neighbours about development applications. |
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We spent much of the next 20 minutes squabbling over who had the better of it. |
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Mafia bloodletting is rare, generally confined to squabbling godfathers in the provinces. |
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The parties have fought this election by issuing dire warnings, squabbling about details and calling each other names. |
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It's fun to watch when the candidates start arguing between themselves, squabbling like petty children. |
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Even in the mixed teams, it's the girls that are squabbling and always having to have the last word. |
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If there's anything more off-putting than the British elite's squabbling, it's its self-loathing. |
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The dream quickly turned into a nightmare as poor reliability on the track and fierce internal squabbling made the team a laughing stock. |
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And then the slow decline would set in, and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins. |
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She turned and glanced backwards, finding that the pair had stopped squabbling and were then noticing the company. |
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Its development comes after years of public squabbling as competition from events in other British cities has grown. |
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Against a flat midnight-blue background the roistering figures tumble about, squabbling with each other or brandishing colourful fire-sticks. |
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But poorish health and frustration with the constant squabbling at the academy made him decide to call it a day. |
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He may have had in mind the internecine squabbling among the various divisions within Judaism or within Orthodoxy itself. |
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We heard the raucous squabbling of gulls and the haunting pipe of the curlew. |
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She and her sister are squabbling over how to handle their 95-year-old Mother on Turkey Day. |
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There's no back talk, no squabbling, no sass when the family gathers around an open grave. |
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They kept waiters hanging on while rudely squabbling and were deliberately awkward. |
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The oligarchs didn't waver. The hitherto disparate and squabbling Ukrainian elite has united behind the president. |
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Mr. Bush and the Democrats are promising to lay aside their partisan squabbling. |
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But as the content largely involves the lads pushing each other into the water or squabbling exaggeratedly about who should have come first, it doesn't really matter. |
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They're squabbling over the legacy of the late Bill Cosey, the hotel owner mentioned above, a man of wealth and charm. |
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What we need now is joint and tangible action within the agreed timeframe, not national squabbling. |
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She is glad of her experience in conflict resolution. Despite the squabbling, the formal goalpost remains clear. |
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In other respects the first 100 days of his coalition's rule have been marked by drift, squabbling and indecisiveness. |
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At the moment, as your address has demonstrated, we see disunion, squabbling and the prospect of failure. |
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Wiesenthal comes across as a self-important busybody, obsessed with titles and recognition, squabbling with rivals. |
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Certainly, the United States should not keep an army in Iraq just to glower at Iran and protect Iraq's perpetually squabbling politicians. |
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After five elections in as many years, the population is understandably tired of all the political squabbling. |
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All this, ladies and gentlemen, seems to me much more important than the endless squabbling about the value of the euro. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, we Europeans cannot carry on debating and squabbling amongst ourselves while immigrants are still drowning. |
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And I must say that institutional squabbling is inappropriate given what is at stake. |
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We have been squabbling for years about the Commission proposal to adjust car tax. |
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He is constantly squabbling with the government of the province he represents here in the federal parliament in Ottawa. |
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In the Ministerial Council, all levels of government, of every political stripe, are working together without squabbling! |
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Serbia and Montenegro's President and Prime Minister are squabbling with each other instead of jointly fighting for their country. |
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The rebels are squabbling among themselves as suspicions rage about American designs and intentions. |
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We already have too many boys squabbling over too many toys. |
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The can-do attitude that she and other migrants display, the determination to make something of their life in the north, puts the squabbling locals to shame. |
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I could only hope the squabbling octet did not end up at the same resort. |
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There was interdepartmental squabbling, interfaculty squabbling. |
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From the dissolution of feudal ties emerge squabbling subjects nursing secret grievances, haughtily guarding caste privileges, or jealously policing petty distinctions. |
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As Stovall and I began squabbling over topwater, spinnerbait, crankbait, swimming bait and worm options, the ensuing confusion resembled a floating pickup sticks game. |
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The relationship between the partners soured and devolved into ugly squabbling and litigation. |
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While many thought that the current proposed standard was written in stone might have to change their minds and wait until the squabbling is over. |
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If we controlled our own economic and political levers, had sovereignty and could use all our own tax revenues, we would not be caught up in this situation, this political squabbling, that threatens our very development. |
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Today, however, it is back to the usual careerism and squabbling. |
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He said the EU supported the mediatory efforts of Zuma to forge agreement between the squabbling political parties. |
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Internal squabbling has halted any real action to tackle the problem. |
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With months of arm-twisting and public squabbling, the Prime Minister, with the assistance of our finance minister, finally lived up to his campaign pledge. |
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The problem, and the reason I am asking these questions now, is that the Commission and the Council, tired of years of squabbling, are now threatening to go along with current practice. |
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Instead of squabbling amongst ourselves, once everything is done, why not really take the time to provide programs for people, communities, plants and everyone, then conduct a thorough study that will satisfy everyone? |
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Mr. Joseph Facal: I will leave your internal squabbling to you. |
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For what are the coalition, if not a stagily squabbling set of proven losers who – let's face it – don't have a whole heap of options other than muddling along together? |
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So it was almost inevitable that however Mad Men ended – unless it had concluded with Don jumping to his death through his office window – the final scenes would provoke instant squabbling. |
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Intergovernmental squabbling will not get the job done. |
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Perhaps it is the cloddishness displayed by a line of them in the shallows herding fish towards shore: the eruptions of clownish squabbling which belies the sophistication of their cooperative behaviour. |
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It's this nebulousness, magnified by endless Senate versus House squabbling, that has allowed reform to be caricatured by its foes as an impenetrable Rube Goldberg monstrosity, a parody of deficit-ridden big government. |
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Are the two companies squabbling over who should pick up the tab? |
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Service chiefs resorted to squabbling among themselves as it became increasingly clear that their spending on weapons systems Britain could not afford, and in some cases did not need, would end in tears. |
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He has now been granted the title of 'Father of the Nation', as he has worked tirelessly and assiduously behind the scenes to reunite his nation and stop squabbling, particularly amongst the Pashtun communities. |
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Local strongmen began the long and costly caudillo tradition, whereby charismatic and often militarily capable leaders came to dominate their societies intra-élite squabbling for power. |
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History will neither forgive nor forget the governments of the European Union if, by squabbling over a few million euro, they delay this historic project. |
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Instead, IHA officials demanded that UNICEF repay money that it had been given in previous years, all of this due to administrative squabbling over reporting issues, most of which had occurred three to four years previously. |
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When trade negotiators meet at WTO headquarters in Geneva to discuss these problems, the voices of poorer countries are drowned out by the EU and US squabbling over markets they already dominate. |
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The lawyer who refrains from arrogance, pomposity, and unnecessary squabbling and disputatiousness is well on his or her way. |
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At the moment, two countries, Spain and Britain, could torpedo efforts to achieve air safety and increased efficiency by squabbling over the insignificant airport at Gibraltar. |
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Zurich's mobilisation was slow due to internal squabbling and on 11 October, 3500 poorly deployed men encountered a Five States force nearly double their size near Kappel. |
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We want to help send a message to the folk on the hill that there are much, much more important issues here than their political squabbling and one-upmanship. |
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