Sentences with phrase «fierce arguments erupted»

For years people had been letting their dogs run free in the meadow to the west of the elementary school without attracting much notice; but once an authorized off - leash «dog park» was proposed and a petition presented to the Littlefield Board of Aldermen, fierce arguments erupted over whose rights to the park should be upheld, and the town broke into factions: those who loved dogs and those who did not, at least not in the park.