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She quarrels with her brothers, and I am very happy for that.
This film simply smacked of the real world: the wife who is suddenly the sole supporter, the live-in relatives and their quarrels, the troubled child who gets knocked up and then, typically, drops out of school, a jackass husband who takes the nest egg and buys beer with it.
Norinaga quarrels with his son, who is ashamed of his father's actions in what he considers to be an unjust war.
One of the favourite scenes is when David (Peter Dalle), after one of many quarrels with Marie (Lena Endre), smashes the TV-set he just bought in the street and then gets arrested by the police.
I must say that this not a boring film at all, although I found the endless little quarrels a bit tiresome.
Okay, so I guess that's two major quarrels.
He has minor quarrels with his ex-wife, and it truly looks like there is no love lost between them!
Western Europe may well be glad to withdraw as well, seizing an opportunity to jettison increasingly burdensome neighbors like Poland, which, despite being the largest recipient of EU funds, opposes further integration, has not adopted the euro, wants to burn coal, and quarrels with Germany, France, and EU governing institutions.
The odium that emanates from the bitter quarrels between critical schools and movements in the arts, the voluminous triviality of so much that is published point to a Byzantine afternoon.
Europe’s global influence is feeble because of its internal quarrels and lack of unity, which render the European Union weak and limit its ability to act.
Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.
Thus they exalt the “nation” and focus their policies on zero-sum quarrels with other countries and on scapegoating deviant “aliens” at home.
Whatever the quarrels about EMU, and the genuine questions about its costs and benefits, there is no question that the European Union is an outstanding achievement.
The Red/Green alliance will make the headlines much less with its accomplishments and much more with its quarrels, disagreements, and ultimate break-up.
Mr. Lavin obtained a remarkable 48.7% of the vote by campaigning as an efficient, issue-oriented politician that was not influenced by ideology or the petty political quarrels of the past.
On the Chinese side, the maritime quarrels with Japan – and with Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines in the South China Sea – have reignited a national debate about whether China’s foreign policy is too weak in terms of asserting the country’s interests.
Yet behind this revulsion there remains some of the hope that brought people into the streets in 1989: a desire for honest, decent, and effective government; a politics with fewer quarrels, accusations, and denunciations; in short, a permanent, velvet revolution in miniature.
For the West, there is a silver lining in this nationalist rivalry: neither China nor Japan is a rogue state, and, so long as their quarrels do not lead to the use of unconventional weapons, we may treat the friction between them as an internal Asian quarrel.
Moreover, the region is home to numerous longstanding quarrels, territorial and border disputes, rampant nationalism, and considerable mistrust.
Winston Churchill (a direct descendant of the Duke of Marlborough) had a similar postwar vision for overcoming past divisions and nationalistic quarrels.
And then there was Bosnia, with its “ancient quarrels.”
Instead, it merely raises the risk that quarrels will escalate into existential conflagrations.
The world has heard enough hollow declarations and tolerated enough puerile diplomatic quarrels.
Common charges include “running an illegal business” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
Another disenchantment and new enchantment was afforded by their quarrels.
Whether it was that the conditions of town-life were different, or that they had both grown more careful and reasonable in this respect – at any rate in Moscow they never had quarrels resulting from jealousy such as they had feared when they moved to town.
'There will be no disputes; with Kitty never any quarrels again; with the visitor, whoever he may be, I shall be amiable and kind; and with the servants, with Ivan, everything will be different.'
They were paid by the basket, and these quarrels were constantly arising.
Then there was confusion among the women: they all began to run home with the terror of housekeepers who had been led astray by too much coffee and too much tattle, and one heard nothing more than this restless cry, pregnant with the quarrels:"Good Lord, and my soup! and my soup which isn't ready!"
Just tell me you didn't say so, eh?"Every day quarrels broke out as a result of the constant gossiping of the women.
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