There could be few clearer illustrations of the shifting contours of the quarrel between rich and poor countries over who is more to blame for climate change and who should do more to arrest it.
And then, you have the quarrel between Sudan and Chad, with the Sudanese accusing the Chadians of backing the Darfur rebels, and the Chadians accusing the Sudanese of supporting Chadian rebels, who are trying to overthrow the Chadian president.
On the same day Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said he had been misquoted in a widely leaked report that he had called the quarrel the worst crisis between the allies for 35 years.
Russia's prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, said that the explosion of a Russian rocket over Kazakhstan on July 5th, which set off a political quarrel between the two countries, was a minor problem compared with the locust invasion.
Behind-the-scenes maneuvering erupted into a public quarrel between prosecutors and the defense over Holmes' public offer to plead guilty, but the two sides could still come to an agreement that would spare Holmes's life in exchange for spending the rest of his life in prison.
The quarrel has crystallised differences between South Korea's conservatives and liberals and divided the country.
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Meanwhile, an increasingly personalised quarrel between the Shia-led United Iraqi Alliance on the one hand and the Kurdish, Sunni Arab and secular parties on the other threatens to paralyse politics altogether.
Consider the difference between a traditional trade quarrel, such as a dispute over restrictions on steel imports, and the battle over hormone-treated beef.
On Jan. 19, the first day after the Muslim fasting month, a quarrel broke out between a Muslim migrant and a Christian minicab driver in Ambon, the provincial capital.
He likens the current spat between Mr Bush and the conservatives to a lovers' quarrel, rather than the beginning of divorce proceedings.
Instead, an unseemly quarrel between agencies responsible for helping the animal has broken out in India, home to most of the world's 5, 500 or so remaining tigers.
Paul Frazier had asserted in his press conference that the quarrel on the morning of December 6th had been between Amy and Seth, but all the other evidence indicated that it actually had been between Amy and her dad.
The bribes inquiry owes much of its vigour to a quarrel between Mr Maluf and Celso Pitta, a former disciple whom he helped to get elected as mayor in his place.
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