And then, you have the quarrel between Sudan and Chad, with the Sudanese accusing the Chadians of backing the Darfur rebels, and the Chadians accusing the Sudanese of supporting Chadian rebels, who are trying to overthrow the Chadian president.
And yet the ongoing quarrel - the Malawian government is still accusing Madonna of lying about her charity work - strikes me as interesting and revealing.
He likens the current spat between Mr Bush and the conservatives to a lovers' quarrel, rather than the beginning of divorce proceedings.
Behind-the-scenes maneuvering erupted into a public quarrel between prosecutors and the defense over Holmes' public offer to plead guilty, but the two sides could still come to an agreement that would spare Holmes's life in exchange for spending the rest of his life in prison.
The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts.
Banks, retailers and the police are keen not to quarrel in public, so they tend to speak from the same script.
There could be few clearer illustrations of the shifting contours of the quarrel between rich and poor countries over who is more to blame for climate change and who should do more to arrest it.
And the group's leadership has no quarrel with Muslims.
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On Jan. 19, the first day after the Muslim fasting month, a quarrel broke out between a Muslim migrant and a Christian minicab driver in Ambon, the provincial capital.
Consider the difference between a traditional trade quarrel, such as a dispute over restrictions on steel imports, and the battle over hormone-treated beef.
His stance led to the quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre and others at Les Temps Modernes, postwar Paris's leading intellectual magazine.
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And yet every American president is implored upon entering office to bring the quarrel swiftly to an end.
The quarrel has crystallised differences between South Korea's conservatives and liberals and divided the country.
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And the moment we fail to recognize the good in those with whom we quarrel, is the moment that we've lost sight of who we are as a people.
Some revisionist history can leave the reader up in the air, wondering why, in the light of the historian's myth-busting, Catholic and Protestant bothered to quarrel with each other at all.
"When elephants quarrel, it's the grass underneath that gets trampled and the mice that have to run away, " quips Siazon.
Paul Frazier had asserted in his press conference that the quarrel on the morning of December 6th had been between Amy and Seth, but all the other evidence indicated that it actually had been between Amy and her dad.
His description of the Havel family quarrel over their restored pre-1948 properties is telling and, he suggests, not untypical.
More than 70 years ago, in 1929, a quarrel about control of the Western Wall sparked riots throughout Jerusalem, and then throughout Palestine, in which 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed.
No quarrel, of course, with the virtuous aim of providing basic health and education.
While experts will no doubt quarrel over the accuracy of the ratings, the report is both important and fascinating.
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The Americans share the Europeans' desire to see Turkey improve its human-rights record and ease its quarrel with Greece.
Papa followed him outside and told him to surrender the rifle as he was in no fit state to start a quarrel with a gun in his hand.
Meanwhile, an increasingly personalised quarrel between the Shia-led United Iraqi Alliance on the one hand and the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and secular parties on the other threatens to paralyse politics altogether.
The bribes inquiry owes much of its vigour to a quarrel between Mr Maluf and Celso Pitta, a former disciple whom he helped to get elected as mayor in his place.
In New York, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mosque quarrel and his sudden behavioral changes might well have been reported by concerned worshipers, the imam himself, or other fellow Muslims.
But the faith is invoked on both sides of this quarrel, by Islam's democrats and modernisers as well as by its autocrats and traditionalists.
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You come home from the war and you see civilians going about their normal lives, and then some people get into a quarrel over some minor thing and you feel this anger welling up inside you.
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