Sentences with phrase «squabbles in»

There were a few little squabbles in the first month, but they quickly worked out who got which food bowl, who got which side of the car.

The resulting patchwork not only varies in terms of rigor, but has saddled many k - 12 teachers with standards that have more to do with ideological squabbles in a particular statehouse than with ensuring that every child leaves school with the critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility needed to enter college or the workforce.

Whereas the first Purge focused on one yuppie family and their domestic squabbles in a gated community, The Purge: Anarchy creates a surprisingly smart and well - honed structure that allows for an anthology of smaller stories to be told within this larger world.

Like most intra-party squabbles in recent years, the contest between the Democratic committee's pick, County Legislator Justin Corcoran, and Family Court Judge Margaret «Peggy» Walsh, is a proxy for the larger tug of war between the party's traditionalists and its progressive wing, of which Walsh is a favorite.

Not only is that a sure way to drive yourself crazy, it's bound to set the stage for food squabbles in the high chair and, later, at the table.

By doing that, she turns the paper from one that squabbles in the shadow of the New York Times — which originally broke the Pentagon Papers story — to a national publication that eventually reported out the Watergate stories and is the powerhouse it is today.

«What's deeply troublesome is that these spinoffs sprung from a relatively minor squabble in the bitcoin community on how to handle the block size limit,» Lederer wrote.

So although there's guaranteed to be some squabbling in the backseat (and maybe even some wrong turns), our governments have finally packed the essentials and hit the road.

Go and squabble in mere mortal leagues.....

While these various factions squabble in the aftermath of the Sandusky scandal, it is the victims who are seeking real justice.

Whether Democrats can take advantage of the squabbling in Tuesday's election remains to be seen, but Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon said the GOP feud has strengthened the Democrats» position.

Last appearing in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor didn't even bother with the Team Iron Man and Team Cap bromantic squabble in Captain America: Civil War.

He meets Deborah (Winona Ryder) and starts dating her, but it's clear that something's up since he has the cold, calculating ability to kill a man after a minor squabble in a bar.

In the opening scenes of the movie, the eccentric sleuth shows his chomps by defusing a religious squabble in Jerusalem, circa 1934.

The problem is minor because your dog is simply squabbling in a socially acceptable manner.

When you battle, characters are constantly shouting and squabbling in what amounts to a verbal fist fight, which only makes the puzzle - battling even more intense.

«What's deeply troublesome is that these spin - offs sprung from a relatively minor squabble in the Bitcoin community on how to handle the blocksize limit.

Respectfully, I can't think of any other way to answer than to say the above is a straw man argument since two federal agencies do not squabble in public about one stepping on the other's toes.

Not exact matches

As well as disputes over stretches of a 3,500 km (2,200 miles) border, they are bumping up against each other in the Indian Ocean and squabbling over Xi's signature Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

In 2011, similar squabbles led to credit agencies downgrading the nation's debt from its triple A status for the first time 70 years.

Defeat, on the other hand, would extend the muddle of the GOP's internal squabbling and diminish its presidential hopes in 2016 and beyond.

But the report suggests that Canada needs to work harder at attracting and welcoming international students, particularly in light of recent political squabbles over immigration:

Donald Trump's first year in office may have been laden with controversy, political squabbling, and tweet storms, yet the reality - TV star turned U.S. president also managed to get a singular piece of legislation through that should loom large for businesses big and small for years to come.

Arrington has, in his brief tenure as an AOL employee, squabbled rather openly with his colleagues.

«It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House,» Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider.

«When you have a wonderful mother - in - law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.»

After years of squabbling with the powerful boyars (Russian noble families), Ivan stormed out of Moscow in 1564.

During one family squabble, Sumner Redstone in 2007 wanted to buy his daughter out of the family business.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the three signatories squabbled over the shape of the union, amid ill - concealed concerns among Kazakhstani and Belarusian officials that Russia seeks to dominate the union.

Horgan and Environment Minister George Heyman both deserve top marks in the verbal squabble with Alberta and Ottawa.

In addition to boardroom squabbles, Uber's newly minted chief legal officer Tony West will also have to navigate a trade secret battle against Alphabet's self - driving arm, in addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practiceIn addition to boardroom squabbles, Uber's newly minted chief legal officer Tony West will also have to navigate a trade secret battle against Alphabet's self - driving arm, in addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practicein addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practices.

Bureaucratic squabbling and ambiguous governmental regulation have hampered American innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem.

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?

437 comments on an article concerning the foundational civil liberty to express one's worldview in a public and publicly financed (at least partially) forum and everyone's squabbling over religious tastes - those CNN editors are quite shrewd.

Under great Tiberius's judgment seat sat the lesser rulers: Pilate up in Jerusalem; the Herod boys down in Galilee and beyond, running things with their usual unbrotherly squabbling; and Lysanias stuck in Abilene, better known to us as the Bekka Valley, scene of Mideast terror.

An unyielding reverence to this book, leading to endless squabbles with and contempt for all who differ on any «jot or tittle», represents the single most defining characteristic of religion in my life.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbleIn too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabblein doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabblein entitling one to vote in future congregational squabblein future congregational squabbles.

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.

In spite of all that careful explanation, the first two weeks of every term typically involve a lot of squabbling back and forth between me and the more articulate and bold of the conservative students.

There is almost complete agreement throughout the world, and even between the normally squabbling religions that ISIS are the most deranged group of humans as - sembled in one spot for a generation.

If He came to any town anywhere in the states w / o people knowing who He was, and offered up fish and loaves to people, He would feel empty inside when he sees the squabbling over who was in line first, who got more, how long it's taking.

Reason and revelation may continue to squabble, notably in recent controversies over evolution, but these conflicts are contained and mediated by tradition, and few seriously expect our societies to guide themselves by anything except a dynamic interaction between these three intellectual forces.

Then the disciples squabble over seating arrangements in the kingdom while the Lord sits on death row.

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.

She finds her audience in the many Christians who gather to praise Jesus without squabbling over their beliefs.

The Eastern Churches have their family squabbles and have had minor schisms; but are still formally united in belief and practice, so which Church do you think is propably the schismatic?

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.

After all, if John Denver could sing love songs to his beloved wife and then divorce her in a nasty marital squabble, imagine what a person like me could do — provided I had as much money as Denver.

One reason, I think, is that the debate over the emergence of panpsychism in Whitehead's thought is no more than a squabble among members of the same interpretative family.

Barton is clearly more interested in current cultural squabbles than he is in history.