Where conservatives do disagree, they are willing not to quarrel about it.

ECONOMIST: The selling of a candidate

Taddeo is aghast at how calmly Isabella accepts their predicament, but after a quarrel about his jealousy they decide it's best to work together.

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In truth, of course, the quarrel over the role of the inspectors is a quarrel about the case for war if everything else fails.

ECONOMIST: Better together. If necessary, alone

At first glance, this looks like a quarrel about foreign policy.

ECONOMIST: Inside the corridors of power, there we sat down and wept

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.

ECONOMIST: Hope in a hate-infected city

Yet when we began to disagree, even quarrel, about the direction of the Public Interest, I told Irving, but also said that friendship is more important than ideology, which I still believe.

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We quarrel and complain about each other's bad habits.

CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

That quarrel had just about been patched up by May, when American special forces discovered and killed Osama bin Laden nesting in what was probably a Pakistani army-spy safe house in a military town, Abbottabad.

ECONOMIST: Relations between the two look increasingly poisonous

And yet the ongoing quarrel - the Malawian government is still accusing Madonna of lying about her charity work - strikes me as interesting and revealing.

BBC: Madonna, Malawi and the infamous attack

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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