Wrangling Sentence Examples

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  • She couldn't make important decisions while wrangling her feelings.

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  • In 1852 the mother-country granted self-government, and, after much wrangling and hesitation, a full parliamentary system and a responsible ministry were set going in 1856.

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  • Our time should not be wasted on wrangling over matters which are of no consequence.

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  • Wrangling demonstrators on now on the the final table based artist international.

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  • After much wrangling the case came to be heard, and Ferdinand was banned for eight months.

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  • After wrangling with local authorities over how it was paid for, the scheme now only allows free travel within regions.

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  • When not wrangling macros, she teaches courses in on-screen editing, among others, for the SfEP and the Publishing Training Center.

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  • Instead of driving to Union Square and wrangling parking, why not save yourself a headache and some gas by taking either BART or MUNI, San Francisco's very convenient public transportation systems?

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  • Amid rumors of legal wrangling (denied by Clarkson) between the show and Clarkson over the rights to use her songs in American Idol broadcasts, it seemed a pointed slight.

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  • These Chinese scholars made no secret of their contempt for Buddhism, and in their turn they were held in aversion by the Buddhists and the Japanese scholars (wagakusha), so that the second half of the i8th century was a time of perpetual wrangling and controversy.

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  • But it was left alone to protect its own frontier against the French, and while the assembly was wrangling with Governor Clinton for the control of expenditures the French and their Indians were burning farm houses, attacking Saratoga (November r6, 1745), and greatly endangering the English-Iroquois alliance.

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  • The fate of Greece was now in the hands of the Powers, who after years of diplomatic wrangling had at last realized that intervention was necessary if Greece was to be saved for European civilization.

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  • All through 1771 the estates were wrangling over the clauses of the coronation oath.

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  • The Cortes went on wrangling for a day and night until, at daybreak on the 3rd of January 1874, General Pavia forcibly ejected the deputies, closed and dissolved the Cortes, and called up Marshal Serrano to form a provisional government.

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  • Pfleiderer in pointing out the similarities of James and the Shepherd of Hermas declares it to be "certain that both writings presuppose like historical circumstances, and, from a similar point of view, direct their admonitions to their contemporaries, among whom a lax worldly-mindedness and unfruitful theological wrangling threatened to destroy the religious life."

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  • It was objected that, as he had publicly declared that the words of the oath bad no clear meaning for him, he could not be permitted to take it; and after some wrangling the matter was referred to a fresh committee, which supported the view that Bradlaugh could not be allowed to be sworn, but recommended that he should be permitted to niake the affirmation at his own risk.

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