- A pet peeve, pet aversion, or pet hate is a
minor annoyance that an
individual finds particularly irritating to a
greater degree than the norm. The noun...
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decisions in
favour of the former, but
without settling the controversy. His
fractious temper coloured all the
controversies in
which he took part, in Gaul,...
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central to the
nature of surrealism. The
Surrealist movement has been a
fractious one
since its inception. The
value and role of the
various techniques...
- His
father wanted him to
study electrical engineering, but he was a
fractious pupil who
found the Gymnasium's
regimen and
teaching methods far from...
- 1968 and led by Paul Erdmann, who
renamed himself Love Israel.
After a
fractious conflict in 1984, the
community was
reduced to a
small fraction residing...
-
Support Your
Local Gunfighter (1971). Glenn's wife was
Pauline "Lilla" (née
Fractious). They have
three children, Roy
Glenn Jr.,
Darryl Ward Glenn, and Renatta...
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close to his
father and
rarely mentioned him in
later years; he had a
fractious relationship with his mother.
Among his siblings, he was particularly...
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increasingly exploited China's
internal conflicts to
reduce the
strength of its
fractious opponents. Even
years after the
Northern Expedition, the
political power...
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election in 1936,
Companys was pardoned, and he
returned to head the
fractious Catalan government. He
remained president during the
Spanish Civil War...
- of the
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord
Deputy of Ireland,
fractious Irish politics combined with a more
ambitious Henry to
cause trouble....
