Sentences with phrase «squabbles about»

It's easy to let the grind of everyday life get to you and allow you to be drawn into silly arguments with your partner and trivial squabbles about unimportant things.

Participating students gain a genuine appreciation of how an estate plan can reduce and even prevent family squabbles about property distribution and who will serve as guardians for the client's minor children.

«For those of us who take seriously the Constitution — and the plain meaning of the words of the English language, in which the Constitution is written — these petty squabbles about what the phrase «shall not be suspended» means are quite remarkable.»

There's a bit more about pointing out lead times to change infrastructure, but muddying the waters with squabbles about El Nino - scale wobbles will not help that at all.

And although he has to deal with internal squabbles about whether cap and trade or a carbon tax is the best way to bring down greenhouse gas emissions, at least the Obama team does agree on the goal.

Judy — I believe this thread will confirm what we have already observed from the Sky Dragon thread and the Radiative Transfer threads — attempts to arrive at a minimum point of agreement will degenerate into squabbles about even those minimum items.

Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights before publication in 1993, but behind - the - scenes squabbles about budget and scripts kept The Alienist from the big screen for more than two decades.

While there are all kinds of side squabbles about timetables and carve outs, the bottom line is this: There are enough votes to pass just about every conceivable compromise in the State Senate, if you include all Democrats and a handful of Republicans.

You don't have to go very far down that road before you start thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in school board squabbles about whether Genesis should be taught alongside of evolution in high school biology courses.

And so while we can squabble about just what Justin Trudeau should or should not do, our effort is much better spent thinking about the question one level up, as some commentators have already begun doing: Should sitting Members of Parliament like Trudeau accept paid speaking engagements?

The 20 - somethings began squabbling about how to run the operation, and it folded within a year.

Evangelicals love to squabble about the meaning of this passage or that.

after years of squabbling about who is really Christian... racism... plain and simple.

Wasn't 9/11 hard enough on everyone, of every religion and for those that have none, that we don't need to make it more difficult by squabbling about this?

They squabbled about who was greatest.

Of course that doesn't mean giving a blank cheque to Theresa May and her three - legged team of fractious Brexiteers as they try to work up a negotiating plan and squabble about whose turn it is to have the Chevening country retreat each weekend.

«Taking Haggerty is aimed at Bloomberg because of (former Manhattan DA Robert) Morgenthau and Vance's hatred for Bloomberg and vice versa after that stupid squabble about (Morgenthau) hording money that wasn't really his,» the source said.

The precedent is discouraging: after three unhappy weeks spent squabbling about taxation, parliament was dissolved by the monarch.

Quit the squabbling about who started or ends the GEA, just end it, then you can all take credit for it.

Nonetheless, companies have to spend a lot of time and effort squabbling about the validity of patents and the cost of licensing fees.

Months before he was born, we were already squabbling about whom he looked like.

You do the converting before we get into a squabble about that again haha.

Money and finance is the biggest cause for arguments among American couples, so get your first date off on the right note and try not to squabble about whose picking up the dinner bill, sometimes it's just easier for the man to pay - «call me old fashion».

But finally after a heated squabble about the aims of science, Phileas gets a chance to prove himself.

After a heated squabble about the aims of science, Phileas determines to impress these armchair experts by proving a he can travel around the world in 80 days.

Also, even when our budget has been tight, we have cut down on many things but always given ourselves enough money in our own personal accounts so that we do not squabble about personal spending decisions.

Forget all this squabbling about Tracer's backside and whether she's being over-sexualised, I'm still waiting for her to break into a Mary Poppins song and «starht sellin» appels onna streets ov» ol' Lundun tahwn.»

We can squabble about the order of magnitude, but with this strategy as well as other strategies, we may be able to bring the earth back to health.

I think the squabbling about the precise numbers is unimportant and uninteresting, except that it serves as a very nice example of how people on both sides are more focused on the identity politics than on the implications of the science.

I'd hoped for something different here, not posturing self - referential pointers to blog squabbling about who's got the best seat and truest commentary on the apocalypse.

The real danger of course, is not this petty squabble about global temperatures.

Who would have ever thought that someone would be «averaging» all those temperatures (for the whole world) and squabbling about 10ths or even 100ths of a degree?

The squabble about how to fix this problem had dragged on for years.

I would have thought that on this basis it was completely uncontroversial to accept the unit root model as superior (without denying that it is quite appropriate to have a squabble about if it really does fit the data better, or how robust this result is — but this doesn't seem to be your point).

I was addressing this point, not engaging in a technical squabble about whether «actual voting» takes 90 seconds, or how much time a lawyer must spend «all at the same time».

Ironic that the pi lawyers are obsessing and squabbling about the quality of advertising.

This contrasts with divorce court, where the parties and their attorneys squabble about each issue for a year, or several years, until just before trial.

Not exact matches

We wonder about the squabbling.

Why does Canada have a youth unemployment rate of over 15 per cent; a federal debt $ 150 billion higher than when the they took office in 2006; a federation weakened by federal - provincial squabbling over health, training and pensions; greater uncertainty about retirement; widening income inequality?

You are the lower rung of the evolutionary ladder squabbling on a web site about things you think is complicated but are plain and simple!

I haven't had much to say about the partial government shutdown / debt ceiling squabble because I find it simultaneously confusing, irritating, and boring.

He told his friend that he had «squabbled and scolded, abused, and ridiculed so long» about this that he had no more patience for the fight.

One day, about two weeks into the course, after having observed all of this squabbling going on back and forth, he came up to me after class and said, «I think I'm beginning to understand what is going on here.»

If you are turned away in a nation that talks about religious freedom and «tolerance» (ie: bare minimum effort) then you can start with appeals and lobbying, it's a long way to the point where the squabbling should begin.

Whoever has read about religious change almost anywhere in the world has to be impressed how this shift occurred in America with no dead bodies, no (to my knowledge) physical wounds from intergroup squabbles, and fewer psychic scars than one could have expected.

Lewis didn't write about the doctrinal squabbles dividing Christian groups of his time, Maudlin says.

The home team won nine Olympic titles, but even it yelped about being jobbed by judges and squabbled within its own ranks

And when asked about this public display, this public squabble with Blank that is real and raw, Jones said: «The NFL is very visible.»

we do not need another GK not sure what is about ARSENAL fans that we always miss the point, we have 2 good GK why we waste energy and focus squabbling for the letgo's from other teams, that is why they disrespect us.

Especially the note about dividing everything equally so there will be no squabbles... I have been known to weigh potato chips into snack portions before getting on the train to make sure fights don't break out.