Sentences with word «fractious»

While delay was not a specific concern in Groia, the type of fractious relationship between opposing counsel that was seen in the case has been identified as one factor contributing to delays.

Go for it, as long as you love animals and have little fear of fractious cats and hard - to - manage exotics!

And while stability and coherence are important, if law is a residue of policy choice, one can ask whether judges are particularly good about cultivating systemic values in fractious political times.

But he's in a bind, caught between needing to appease the Lib Dems and his own increasingly fractious party.

A Washington, D.C. - based group dedicated to producing Democratic - run state capitals has become the latest advocate to lean on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help his party take control of the fractured, fractious State Senate — and to thus make New York only the seventh state in the nation with a solid - blue government.

Here are some tips to avoid bites and scratches in fractious cats.

Still, the accord represents a watershed for fractious Democratic politics in the state and a political coup for Mr. Cuomo as he faces his most serious primary challenge.

As a generally loving but increasingly fractious family driven by their own separate agendas and interests, this will be the one opportunity all summer for them to spend time together.

Republicans have said privately that Silver's case was different, that he governed over a more fractious conference with diverse issues and concerns, that his alleged illegal actions of hiding income mad him a poster child for Albany corruption.

A veteran of many debate panels (including the 27th district Congressional debate on WBFO and WNED - TV on October 16th), McCarthy says, if presented the opportunity, he would ask tonight's candidates how they would get Washington's fractious political parties to agree on divisive issues like health care, the deficit and taxes.

Only a few years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District's system for evaluating teachers» job performance was the subject of legal disputes, full - blown lawsuits and bitter fractious debate between district leaders and the teachers union.

Let's take a look at how I work on fractious dogs to make grooming more acceptable.

The normally fractious Democrats in the state Senate in a show of unity held a joint news conference to push for gun control bills, including a measure that would create a special court order barring people from buying guns if they are proved to be a harm to themselves or others.

To the extent that you can, reduce the «noise» in your life — from entertainment, from frivolous or excess obligations, from fractious relationships, from debt, and so on.

Red Bull Racing's relationship with Renault has become fractious over the past few seasons with the French company's F1 hybrid engine lagging behind the performance offered by rivals Mercedes and Ferrari.

After fractious negotiations with Iain Duncan Smith a deal has finally been done on «a radically new welfare state».

Out of a «fractured and fractious time,» the author asserts persuasively, the medieval mind evolved into the modern.

Among the strengths that he said he brings to the table are «enthusiasm,» a «friendly manner» that would doubtless be appreciated during the oft - fractious meetings of the Town Board and «problem - solving skills.»

And fractious politics complicate things, so we are not holding our breath.

Things are not always so fractious at home as Tariq and his wife Susan (Greta Scacchi) welcome his cousin Zaheer (Mikaal Zulfikar) from abroad.

«Congressional approval has become the latest sticking point in the revamp of a trade pact that, after eight months of fractious negotiations, could finally be in reach.

I agree, but as fractious as all of the Republicans have been, it would be nice to see them all get on board and work together for once.

The Tea Partiers are a purist and fractious bunch, liable to split along ideological and personal fault lines at the drop of a hat, so perhaps there's some chance that it might.

Sheehan faces a much more fractious Democratic Party.

Our approach to the restraint of pet animals is presented so that we minimize the danger of handling fractious animals.

However, as much as this drug seems to cause lethargy, its effects are not that potent as to making the anxiety completely go away in several fractious dogs.

In this comprehensive history, Columbia Professor Mark Mazower describes the complicated and often fractious relationship among these groups.

It also faces other urgent tasks, such as replenishing its top ranks, retaining its 14,000 full - time employees, reforming its workplace and repairing its sometimes fractious relationship with its drivers, who are contractors.

If it passes, he acknowledged, it likely will spur renewed debates over such fractious issues as mandating renewable energy projects or expanding energy conservation efforts.

In February Max Wigram's exhibition «La Bella Figura» contextualised Arte Povera within fractious post-war Italian politics.

Even today, one of the most fractious issues within feminist political and artistic circles is the question of pornography and the politics of erotic representation.

There is good reason to believe that when Paul wrote that the pagans were saying that Christians can be identified by their showing love, that the pagans were being ironic, and Paul is pointing this out to his very fractious group.

There were, as usual, movies about fractious racial divisions, including «Mudbound,» Dee Rees» symphonic, superbly acted drama about two Mississippi families — one white, one black — struggling to survive in the shadow of World War II.

will not seek reelection in November, he told colleagues Wednesday, throwing an already fractious House into tumult and dealing another blow to Republican hopes of holding onto power in Congress.

It seems that Clegg's relationship with Michael Gove became so fractious during the last government that the two men stopped speaking.

Ashdown's remarks will fuel debate about the party's next moves at what is expected to be a tense and fractious conference in Glasgow.

Arriving at common ground in one of the most fractious fields in education, a group of educators and public officials has developed a draft framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress test in U.S. history.

Nothing too fractious, please.

During one fractious period within the court, she invited her colleagues to prepare a meal at her home, under the direction of the Supreme Court chef, Mr. Binnie recalled: «So we were all instructed to clean fish and peel vegetables, which brought people together on a personal level at a time when there were some professional differences that needed to be healed.»

Trump's speech this week buoyed House Republican leaders who were hopeful that his leadership would unite fractious lawmakers around a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

Google has had fractious relations with companies that produce video, but that's changing now, Schmidt said.

The benefits of an autocracy like China's is that these policies do not have to get passed through fractious houses of parliament, congress and senate bodies.

Assisting veterinarians in medical procedures using proper restraint, including proper restraint for fractious patients.

The left remains a broad, fractious coalition composed of all sorts of competing interests.

But the factionalized and fractious chamber isn't so straightforward.

«This expansion has been lifesaving for a handful of owner - surrendered cats who became extremely stressed and even fractious in the shelter environment.

Ask how a clinic handles fractious cats, says Marilyn Krieger, a certified cat behavior consultant in Redwood City, Calif..

Flow is an active, creative, motivating state of optimal being where the hours seem to fly, and these six fractious workplace habits can tear us away from achieving the flow of productive and meaningful work.