Squabbles

Usage examples of disputes.

It was an unstable region even then, with religious, ethnic, dynastic, and all manner of political disputes, and the British generally had their hands full.

One only of their number disputes his claim to giving the first impulse to the practice, in Boston.

To this he flew at a hint of a contrary method, and disputes, verifications and triumphs on one side and the other ensued between brother and sister.

Adams remained silent, but in letters to Henry Knox and John Quincy said he would do everything possible to settle all disputes with France.

He had conversed directly with Talleyrand and a principal member of the Directory, Logan said, and they had expressed the wish to settle all disputes with America.

To be ingenuous, I must own it to be my opinion, that Locke was betrayed into this question by the Schoolmen, who, making use of undefined terms, draw out their disputes to a tedious length, without ever touching the point in question.

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality.