Fractious in a sentence

Barry's scathing remarks, made public by various news outlets in 2020, shed light on a fractious family dynamic.

During the fractious campaign months leading up to the mid-term elections in November 2022, I found myself reaching repeatedly for safe havens.

Fractious House Republicans could find their already razor-thin majority down to a single seat next year as ill-timed resignations and scandals take their toll, members of Congress say.

He cautioned that Nigerians specifically desire a new administration that will guarantee security, peace, and stability and spark a new wave of prosperity that would unite the fractious nation and drastically improve the economy.

Indeed, Padilla has forged a career with that measured approach, from his earliest days as president of the L.A. City Council, when he could bring together disparate coalitions in a fractious Los Angeles.

The practice has been at the centre of a fractious political debate.

Again thanks to the Joyce legacy, Qantas has long had a very fractious relationship with its staff, and improving this needs to be a priority.

As a Black American academic with a keen interest in US politics, I’m often asked during this fractious, deeply worrying time in our democracy why a small but not insignificant number of Black voters appear to be turning to former President Donald Trump.

He sounds as if he’s joking, but might be serious given how fractious the Pythons have been with each other over the years.

He’s written books like Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveler, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition, Identity, Faith and Conflict: Essays on Pakistan and Beyond, and being Pakistani: Essays on the Arts, Culture and Society.

I’d heard about the Aspen Institute’s new effort to go beyond ordinary politics in our fractious America and focus instead on what we have in common.

It has not been politically fractious to serve on this board, even during really fraught times.

Leaks about Gray’s £170,000 salary while other special advisers have seen their pay held down have contributed to reports of a fractious atmosphere within Number 10 less than three months after coming to power.

Now, one might say it’s because our democracy is vibrant hence all this fractious issues but, I will be quick to rebut and say, politics is a theatrical act and we are mere players in it.

Patrick turns professional, carrying on a fractious long-distance relationship with Tashi.

She has thrown her support behind Edmundo González Urrutia, a former ambassador who's never held public office, helping a fractious opposition unify behind him.

She stands in favor of whatever will keep the fractious Democratic coalition together.

These include geopolitical and economic turbulence, changing consumer behaviors, a fractious media landscape and evolving privacy regulations, to name just a few.

The two candidates also engaged in a fractious debate about abortion, an issue where polls show Ms Harris has the upper hand.

Always a fragile and sometimes fractious balance between administrators and faculty, higher education’s practice of shared governance is being sorely tested by the pandemic.