Quarrelsome, erratic and libidinous, Pushkin had affairs, fought duels and challenged authority wherever he went.
The king did his best to accentuate the positive in relations between Abraham's quarrelsome children.
Rita O'Keefe had been a drunken, unattractive, quarrelsome fifty-five-year-old with an insatiable appetite for gin and sex.
Some say it could be a model for solving the many other outstanding issues between the quarrelsome Sudanese.
ECONOMIST: A ruling from The Hague pleases the north and vexes the south
There always comes that moment when a democratic society, full of differing impulses and quarrelsome factions, suddenly says: Enough.
Why is Israel's prime minister getting off to such a clumsy, quarrelsome start?
On November 6th the coalition sought to patch up disputes among its three quarrelsome members with a little extra spending.
When the United Front government came to power last year, many doubted that a quarrelsome 13-member coalition could continue the reforms.
Anheuser-Busch wants to exploit the event to position Budweiser as a more upscale brew--instead of one better known for its quarrelsome lizards.
But the obvious alternative victory by Russia's bone-headed and quarrelsome hard-liners looked pretty bad.
Those holding drinks included celebrating sports fans, revelers ending a night on the town, both amorous and quarrelsome couples and women weeping into cellphones.
Perhaps rightly, Kosovo's quarrelsome leaders are complaining that the western world gave the green light, if only through its silence, for Mr Milosevic's onslaught.
Liev Schreiber, surly and tough, is his quarrelsome younger brother, and there is an enormous cast of minor actors and extras, some of them memorable.
He can also take comfort because the centre-right opposition, New Democracy, is in quarrelsome disarray as the full extent of its mismanagement in 2004-09 becomes obvious.
Back home, SAARC these days appears in the news only during its summit when leaders of the quarrelsome nuclear rivals India and Pakistan face each other on the same stage.
So he and his fellow mediators from the European Union are trying a new tack: they are knocking heads together among the quarrelsome ethnic Albanians before they put their case to Mr Milosevic.
As so often these days, he faces not punishment by his own government but the potentially lethal consequences of being denounced as a heretic by several influential groups in the quarrelsome world of Egyptian Islam.
Depending on how things go in this and the other trials, it is possible to imagine Iraq's quarrelsome ethnic and religious groups being brought together by hearing of the terrible sufferings that his regime inflicted on them all Shia Arabs, Kurds, even his fellow Sunni Arabs when it suited his purpose.
ECONOMIST: Saddam in the dock as Iraq counts its ballots | The
Having spent too much time camped outside various stately homes waiting to find out whether the quarrelsome Northern Ireland parties had been able to resolve their latest argument, there was a certain novelty in being able to stroll freely into the majestic Royal Kilmainham Hospital in Dublin to listen to our local luminaries tell others just how it was done.
应用推荐