1. Nancy was in a fractious mood.

2. Children become fractious when they are tired.

3. Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.

4. The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.

5. I muttered like a fractious housewife.

6. Chopra moved between them, calming their fractious nerves.

7. Maggie grew up in a large, fractious family.

8. The children were predictably fractious.

9. Truth, therefore, is socially fractious, while ignorance is bliss.

10. Habitually fractious, difficult, Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible.

11. Republicans have a fractious debate led by pro-choice governors, including California Gov.

12. The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute.

13. Admittedly, they went to North Carolina as a fractious team with too many cliques.

14. If we get any fractious children we always send for Helen.

15. There were no fractious sects and gangsters to challenge his authority.

16. Imperious, fractious ladies who minced along, holding up their saris.

17. But I must say she's not always as fractious as she appears now.

18. He had worked with the diverse(), fractious Iraqi opposition.

19. Run by fractious triumvirate, it produced some noble plays.

20. Fractious infighting left the cartel in disarray. Prices collapsed.

21. It is still fractious, and in many places corrupt.

22. Things could get more fractious, though.

22. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

23. Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas.

24. Voters have tossed out the coalition of young, idealistic, inexperienced and fractious liberal parties that won in 1996.

25. In the 1630s, in particular, he presided over a fractious chapter, divided by personal and some ideological conflict.

26. Disagreements would no longer have to be contained within fractious coalitions.

27. Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties.

28. Many latter-day Democrats believe that he was uniquely poised to hold together the New Deal's fractious electoral majority.

29. For not long after his return, Midvale-now like a family to him, if sometimes a fractious one-began to unravel.

30. In other times of crisis, the country found a way forward despite the fractious aspects of democracy.

1. Nancy was in a fractious mood.

31. The art of Belgian political leadership consists of bringing consensus to a broad and fractious coalition.

32. The 60 regular members of the Meetup grouphad been just as fractious and strong-willed as the users of the Ron Paulforums.

33. The anti - LDP coalition government that fractious and the LDP returned to power within 11 months.

34. Those governments generally ignored their fractious Tuareg minorities, leaving them to wander the desert with their flocks of camels and goats.

35. Iraq remains violent and fractious and its political institutions are weak.

36. For decades Turks had endured a string of fractious and corrupt coalitions, interspersed by military coups.

37. All are members of a close-knit but fractious group that has dominated the American debate over the Arab - Israeli problem.

38. Above all, he sees Europe as it is: a fractious collection of 27 members.