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The issue was the subject of a fractious public meeting last fall.

After that, a fractious party began to turn its back on him.

They have a fractious relationship, and were at war from 1998 to 2000; 100,000 died.

In these fractious times, it's at least one thing we can all agree on.

Yet neighbors reported a fractious relationship between the son and father.

But our fractious relationship with deer is not a matter of reason.

Do be quiet; I never saw such a fractious thing.

A complex union does not, of course, have to be a fractious one.

When things get tight the guys do become less fractious.

It takes a lot of energy to be fractious in the gate.

Being a fractious group of politicians these days, that is not easy.

In fact, my mood tonight is what you might call fractious.

By October 1943, the fractious relationship came to the surface again.

The plan has something for almost everyone in the fractious Democratic caucus.

Democrats agreed that the next two years would be fractious.

But from the time he took office in July, the coalition has been fractious.

Others view the new party as a way to remain ahead of a fractious opposition.

But others said that the fractious country would require such a strong presence.

We'd been a fractious group, producing debate and very little else.

She was just starting to get fractious when Liz came back in.

And these days the conservative mansion is a fractious place.

The noisy, fractious world of politics seemed far away indeed.

The normally fractious art world has gotten behind the project.

The less fractious Senate passed most of the tax increases earlier.

Should it take a role in the industry's usually fractious labor negotiations?