• The province's two main tribes, the cattle-herding Hema and the seed-sowing Lendus, used to bicker intermittently.

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  • Even if Harbaugh's hard-eyed intensity can be a little grating, it's tough to bicker with the result.

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  • Granted, Sony has been known to bicker over the plummeting flat-panel prices, but could be looking for a way to effectively (and profitably) add to those record setting sales even more.

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  • As members of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition group in exile, continue to bicker, security forces rounded up a handful of moderate dissidents from two home-grown opposition groups which had hitherto been tolerated.

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  • Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.

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  • Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.

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  • When I'm not at work I'm usually at home, acting as a United Nations peace keeping force and listening to the "Bicker brothers", my two sons Patrick and Sean doing what they do best.

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  • They will then continue underground to a compound near Skegness before linking to a substation at Bicker Fen.

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  • Cables will then continue underground to an electrical compound near Skegness and from there will link to a substation at Bicker Fen, near Boston.

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  • The court heard that four days earlier Ms Hyndman, who was feeling nauseous, became irritated with Walker because he began cooking which led to a "little bicker".

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  • Today, few households have title to ownership, and frequently the several households sharing one traditional courtyard bicker over their rights.

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  • And for Independents, the most important thing is always that the parties don't bicker so much and that they don't seem to always be fighting with each other, getting nothing done, and that they don't appear to be bickering among themselves.

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  • Councillor for Bicker Fen, Aaron Spencer, said residents had worries about disruption to the rural area.

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  • Studies contradict each other, and scientists bicker: Some will tell you with great conviction that there's nothing to worry about.

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