Sentences with phrase «by bickering»

Is your relationship being tainted by bickering?

Tillmans's victory - he was an early favourite of the bookmakers - was overshadowed by bickering about whether imitation of one artist's work by another is flattery or plagiarism.

The characters — even the brief, brilliant appearances by bickering garbagemen Dick Miller and Robert Picardo — are so beloved, they could've inspired their own spinoffs.

They're fatigued by the bickering,» Cardinal Timothy Dolan said at the Capital Monday, after lobbying alongside Cuomo for the education tax credit.

By bickering about who picks up the bill, of course.

NHS patients are facing a «tartan curtain» caused by bickering health officials either side of the English - Scottish border.

Then the idyllic fantasies of harmonious family fun are interrupted by bickering, and impatience.

Such relationships are usually characterized by bickering, distancing, and hurting behavior on the part of both.

Not exact matches

They were made heroes by the financial crisis and the Great Recession, if only because they tried to make a difference while politicians bickered and corporate titans hoarded cash.

«In the tough economic times ahead, we need a Conservative majority led by Harper to make the difficult decisions without the inevitable bickering from the Liberals and NDP,» wrote one CEO.

After power changed hands in D.C. a year later, the federal government and Congress delayed picking up the baton for several months due to partisan bickering and lobbying by special interests.

Zimbabwe's ruling party saw some major upsets and raucous bickering during its primaries this week ahead of general elections due by August.

Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes flown by white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible, rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.

My post-it notes are mostly vulgarious blatancies not worthy of denunciating by otherly postie people who bicker and bawk cowardlessly upon the ridicule - ings of my Type.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

It means we could visit each others churches, worship and serve side by side, and continue to respect and love one another, and not bicker, despite our disagreements.

on a higher level the bickering turns to mass murder and all sorts of ills committed by all religions since the dawn of time.

I do not understand Jesus» words to love one another to include the bickering, the «I'm right and you're wrong and that means you're going to hell», the anger, snarky remarks, intolerance and general lack of love that I find not only in the comments on many «Christian» blogs, but also that I read and hear expressed by «Christians» elsewhere.

We also overhear faculty members as they bicker over whether a certain comment — made several years earlier by a candidate for a faculty position — was implicitly racist.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

Won't the world see us «bickering» with one another and be put off by Christianity?

Which was another thing about Mina's family, by the way: They bickered constantly.

Even the tranfer statements being made by Gazidis and Wenger are becoming a bickering joke!?

The bickering and questioning of decisions commonly heard on the radio by so many drivers and crew chiefs during races is absent on the No. 2 team's channel.

How about pinching, bickering and hogging the one Sony Walkman in a seat that's sticky from spilled juice with the vague scent of vomit wafting by occasionally (this being a time pre-Febreze).

There was not a morning went by that my children didn't bicker over who got to sit on the «white chair» at the breakfast table.

Side by side strollers offers both infant and toddler's the same traveling experience, while parents escape the bickering from one child complaining about «seating favoritism.»

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634, 647 - 48, 219 S.W. 2d 910, 915 (1949)(«So long as there is a divided custody there will probably be bickerings and disputes and a natural tendency on the part of the child to play one against the other, as well as for the claimants to seek by indulgences to curry favor with the child, if not to prejudice it against the other.»)

To learn more about the parenting philosophy that includes ways to stop backseat bickering, and for more on the great section on Car Wars, check out Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay.

«Mark Murphy will bring a much - needed fresh perspective to Washington, set aside petty partisan bickering and deliver substantial and long - lasting results on behalf of New Yorkers who work for a living,» Gillibrand said in a statement released by Murphy's campaign.

Rather, the suffering incurred by the divorce has been so great that those in power are running out of options to maintain their positions, while brinkmanship and desperation threaten to see the bickering between the two former partners to spiral out of control.

I have to decompress and disengage because I am totally frustrated and exasperated by the deliberate ignoring of the basic needs of the people in favor of bickering like spoiled children over relatively trivial issues.

His comments follow weeks of internal bickering for the soul of the party by leading members and pressure groups who are blaming Mahama for their defeat.

Its new provisions didn't fire the imagination as much as those in the original Coalition Agreement, and its publication was undermined by intra-party bickering in the days that followed.

Later, his administration helped coordinate messaging by a jumble of same - sex marriage advocacy groups, eliminating bickering that hurt their cause during a failed 2009 vote.

Dogged by scandals and partisan bickering, state lawmakers passed the fewest number of bills in the past four years, a slowdown that state Capitol observers worry will have far - reaching consequences.

No, the bickering will die down by the end of March.

The Treasury Department blamed the mishap on a crush of paperwork partly caused by lawmakers who — this will sound familiar — bickered too long before raising the nation's debt limit.

After a day of partisan bickering over whether the Republicans» sweeping tax plan would truly help the middle class, a key House panel approved late changes, restoring the tax exemption for employees receiving child care benefits from their companies, but also putting new requirements on a tax credit used by working people of modest means.

Stanley, seeking his third two - year term, was nominated by Tina Rice and seconded by his father and later spoke about how he'd first decided to run for the Shandaken's top job after figuring his hometown was «bigger than the bickering that preceded me.»

But the judge on Thursday said he plans to delay the trial by at least a week amid bickering by the lawyers.

In 2014, the annual Public Employees Federation convention was marked by internal bickering and strife.

In a reference to the political rows disabling the US, Clegg said: «While other countries have been riven by political bickering, we have shown that a coalition forged in a time of emergency could be a different kind of government, governing differently.»

JP is not 100 % accepted by everybody in statistics, and it doesn't have perfect statistical properties (there is no framework that has perfect statistical properties anywhere in statistics) but it's by far the most widely accepted option for a conventional prior, it has various nice properties, and basically it's the only chance we have for resolving this issue (the alternative is that we spend the next 30 years bickering about priors instead of discussing the real issues).

You had a super smooth George Clooney, an always eating Brad Pitt (seriously, like every scene), great performing by Matt Damon, all - too - familiar brotherly bickering, a Chinese acrobat, and the sweet fake accent of Don Cheadle.

The film establishes their regular lives — bickering with boars for plants, bickering with other tribes for water, getting killed off by hungry big cats.

Loosely inspired by a shocking true story, this chilling psychological horror story follows a bickering couple on vacation in the Caribbean who are accidentally abandoned during a diving expedition and forced to fend for themselves in the ocean as they are surrounded by sharks - while the tour operators back at the harbor take 24 hours to realize that they have left a pair of customers stranded.

Favreau gratifyingly prevents the film from becoming a mere maelstrom of CG effects by pushing the brothers» amusing bickering to the fore...

Since the whole gang is back and once again led by Peter Quill / Star - Lord (Pratt), you can expect more of the original's near - constant bickering and one - liners, literally colorful characters and can - you - top - this action.