- 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...
-
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,...
- of the
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord
Deputy of Ireland,
fractious Irish politics combined with a more
ambitious Henry to
cause trouble....
- each other. The
correspondence ultimately proves a
metaphor for the
fractiousness and
contention between Israeli Jews of
different political and religious...
- 2015. Rohan,
Brian (22
February 2015). "Hadi, a once-quiet
leader of a
fractious Yemen,
strikes defiant pose by
reclaiming presidency". U.S. News & World...
- 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...
- makeup,
although I'd have done it for Franco."
Father and
daughter had a
fractious relationship on set, with the
young Anjelica having difficulty learning...
- but they tend to be
drawn to
authoritarianism when
public opinion is
fractious and
there is a loss of
confidence in
public institutions. In 1973, psychologist...
- the wake of the
referendum defeat,
Gauthier proved unable to hold the
fractious caucus together and
resigned as
leader just one year later.
Gilles Duceppe...
-
increasingly exploited China's
internal conflicts to
reduce the
strength of its
fractious opponents. Even
years after the
Northern Expedition, the
political power...
