"Fracas" refers to a noisy or disorderly situation, usually involving a quarrel or fight. It implies a chaotic and loud conflict between people.
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So, if there is some sort
of fracas in the Reformed churches in central California, well, word tends to get around.
Forget Wenger's touchline
fracas with Jose Mourinho in October 2014 at Stamford Bridge.
Mr. Ofori Owusu also intimated that Mrs. Osei was ultimately responsible for the recent
fracas between commissioners of the EC, because «the buck stops with you [Charlotte Osei].
I woke up Wednesday morning to news of
fracas at the opera.
Manchester City pair Fernandinho and Sergio Aguero have played down reports of a tunnel
fracas involving Barcelona's Lionel Messi after Tuesday Champions League tie.
Unfortunately, I wasn't there for the foam -
fracas as I had to make an early exit to get my report on air for our 5 o'clock bulletin.
But many projects come under public and federal scrutiny — the
recent fracas over gene therapy trials is a case in point (Science, 24 March, p. 2163), often because the manner in which they were conducted led to concerns over the safety of the recruited participants or the protection of their confidentiality.
The 24 year - old has also been in the news recently for his part in a late - night
fracas outside a London club, and this is not the first - time that he has attracted negative press.
The legal
fracas started up again in 2010 and 2011, as The Annals prepared to publish the four methodological papers.
The Manchester United boss was reportedly hit with milk during a
tunnel fracas following Manchester City's 2 - 1 win over their arch-rivals.
This year, he decided to do it differently, and he is also facing backlash from some lawmakers over a failed pay - raise and ethics reform
fracas late last year.
According to him, the manner in which the commissioners handled the 2016 polls, especially their relationship with the various political parties and the
current fracas between the...
Brown's discovery of Eris in 2003 kicked off the what - is - a-planet-anyway
fracas last year at the annual meeting of the International Astronomical Union, which reclassified Pluto as a «dwarf planet.»
Latest local news for Spokane, WA: Forged judge's signature turns civil case into
legal fracas - Mon, 22 Jan 2018 PST
A shower of screen -
filling fracas» for up to five players, Aperion Cyberstorm challenges pilots to fly through hundreds of maps across three game modes, combining dynamic abilities and elemental effects to brutal effect and endless variety.
Cambridge
Analytica fracas reopens the big questions about the organisation of the information order
The Daily Mirror joined the discussion by publishing this chart
about fracas, which ranks the incident as more serious than a tussle or a clash, but still not as bad as a brawl.
The Frenchman, who netted the opener at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, was very open in his assessment of team - mate Diego Costa, who was involved in the first -
half fracas that resulted in defender Gabriel Paulista's sending off.
Jack Wilshere is known for his off - the - field antics, where he has been fined for a number of smoking incidents, while he was also questioned by police outside a night club in recent weeks after a late
night fracas.
It is tragic that he should be a casualty of the
unnecessary fracas over the Falkirk selection, and no doubt this will -LSB-...]
As Publishing Perspectives has reported, the Man Booker has encountered an unanticipated and perhaps unwanted celebratory
year fracas in the form of a sharp rebuke earlier this month by some of the UK's publishers for its change that «evolved» the prize in 2014, opening it to «any novel written in English and published in Britain.»
It's a strangely
graceful fracas in which entire armies exist simply to (slightly) slow your hero's progress from one objective to the next within labyrinthine maps.
But I would put this
whole fracas in the EXTREMELY UNHELPFUL TO THE DIALOGUE folder and definitely not up to the quality of professionalism and respect I've experienced from the publishing professionals I've worked with.
Jack Wilshere is no stranger to being in the newspapers for the wrong reasons, and this
weekends fracas and brawl outside a nightclub at 2 am was swiftly broadcast to the world at large in very large headlines.
Except for the
rare fracas that catches the eye of the press, their work goes essentially unnoticed.
So much of it reminded me of tabloid / Fox news bulls % $ t, like the
Bell fracas over Hell.
The facts of Burger's plagiarism case are complicated, and the 4
a.m. fracas may be irrelevant to his football eligibility, but Brandt's assertion that Burger has suffered enough because of press coverage is even further from the point.
That the decisive caution involved Logano and cost Busch a potential win was a bit ironic considering the two entangled in a
post-race fracas last week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Of course, the Hatfield -
McCoy fracas is No. 1, but North Carolina - Duke is second.
The Edelman /
Gilmore fracas in the end zone after an incomplete pass caused most of their teammates to rush toward them and snuff it.
This interaction spilled into a mass altercation with a number of players making their presence felt, but Mohamed Elneny somehow finds himself sent off for the
mad fracas, supposedly for raising his hand at Soares...
No unwritten rules were broken in the Blue Jays -
Royals fracas over the weekend.
Currently, though, he's without wings, grounded by a legal and
financial fracas that causes him more pain than his brittle body parts.
His golf manners were famously pensive andlaborious — Angie, find a rules guy, he'd tell his caddie, Angelo Argea — but hewas always sure about what he was doing, and his career was unblemished by asingle
rules fracas.
What started out as a war of words evolved Wednesday night into a petty timeout, one head coach being held back from going after the other, that head coach refusing to shake hands after the game, a minor on -
court fracas, and then one of the most savage postgame press conferences you're ever going to see.
In 2013, even before the full impact of Woods»
disastrous fracas with the flagstick on the 15th hole had come to light, the worldwide leader enjoyed its highest - rated (3.0) and most - viewed (4.2 million watchers) Friday telecast since it began broadcasting the Masters in 2008.
The club had absolutely nothing to do with the
train fracas, logically they shouldn't have to do anything for the guy.
Bournemouth should have been dead and buried before half - time but managed to get on level terms with an unlikely Old Trafford penalty and then showed great resilience to protect their point once they had skipper, Andrew Surman, sent off in the aftermath of the Ibrahimovic /
Mings fracas.
The Barcelona attacker has been punished for his role in Wednesday's
post-game fracas, when he was shown a straight red card for confronting Jeison Murillo and Carlos Bacca after the Group C defeat to Colombia.
However, when City suspended him for the
Dabo fracas, his time at Eastlands appeared to over, and Newcastle duly offered the required trigger price.
«The fact is things are different now,» insisted Aponte, whose own job became an issue in the
post-coup fracas (however, unlike the men who wanted him gone, Aponte is still around and not in the AG» s crosshairs).
Let every felon — Hausa, Fulani or Yoruba — be arrested for their ignoble role, in the
Ife fracas.
Meanwhile, Paladino is moving ahead with his plan to appear at a Town Hall meeting at the Staten Island Hilton Garden Inn tonight, despite the fact that Curtis Sliwa, who was supposed to introduce him there, has backed out due to the
e-mail fracas.
Democratic House candidate Matt Alexander is joining in on the Jay Townsend
acid fracas and agreed with his primary opponent Richard Becker: Rep. Nan Hayworth needs to fire her strategist.
The two -
kitchen fracas goes to show the Labour Party faces an uphill battle in its attempt at rebranding Miliband in the face of a well established and dominant media narrative in which he will always be the loser.
Another five, according to a report by The Nation on the Rivers
pre-re-run fracas, were clubbed to death: an unnamed four in Obibi, Etche Local Government and one Gabriel Cookey, in Opobo, the headquarters of Opobo / Nkoro Local Government.