- 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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Empire (later
Ashanti Region), an
autonomous state in West
Africa that
fractiously co-existed with the
British and its v****al
coastal tribes.
After several...
- of the
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord
Deputy of Ireland,
fractious Irish politics combined with a more
ambitious Henry to
cause trouble....
-
callbacks to the character's time as an ********in; Zemo's "spidery, kind of
fractious"
theme from
Civil War
returns for that character; and
Jackman used an...
-
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,...
- 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...
- born.
According to
Sheila Weller, "[Simpson and Brown] were a dramatic,
fractious,
mutually obsessed couple before they married,
after they married, after...
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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...
- with
Spain to that end, and sent 6,000
troops to France. The confused,
fractious nature of
Breton politics undermined his efforts,
which finally failed...
- Ford and
Ricardo Arias Calderón.
During its five-year term, the often-
fractious government struggled to meet the public's high expectations. Its new police...
