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A pet peeve, pet aversion, or pet hate is a minor annoyance that an individual finds particularly irritating to a greater degree than the norm. The noun...

Billboard 200. Carey's tense relationship with Columbia grew increasingly fractious; she began posting messages on her website, sharing inside information...

international recognition, failed to unite the nationalist groups, and had a fractious relationship with its US-based founding president, Syngman Rhee. From...

His father wanted him to study electrical engineering, but he was a fractious pupil who found the Gymnasium's regimen and teaching methods far from...

However, upon the death of the 8th Earl of Kildare, governor of Ireland, fractious Irish politics combined with a more ambitious Henry to cause trouble....

8, 2013. O'Connor, John J. (May 4, 1996). "After 5 Years of Family Fractiousness, 'Sisters' Exits Elegantly". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2013...

Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón. During its five-year term, the often-fractious government struggled to meet the public's high expectations. Its new police...

general election, Vanuatuan politics have been unstable with a series of fractious coalition governments and the use of no confidence votes resulting in...

increasingly exploited China's internal conflicts to reduce the strength of its fractious opponents. Even years after the Northern Expedition, the political power...

and Italy's Christian Democrats, considering the party indecisive and fractious – reformist currents within it particularly, which tended to the moderate...

1947, but the Muslim Conference failed to capitalise on it due its fractiousness and the lack of a distinct political programme. In 1946, the National...

coal miners, which brought the strike to an end without violence. The fractious relationship ended in March 1890, after Wilhelm II and Bismarck quarrelled...

supervision from Rome. Exasperated by the demands of running a growing and fractious Order, Francis asked Pope Honorius III for help in 1219. He was assigned...

once the conflict was over. Unlike Bush, Clinton was able to unite his fractious and ideologically diverse party behind his candidacy, even when its different...

Francis M. (2013). Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection: The story of how two fractious cousins reshaped the modern detective novel. Perfect Crime Books. ISBN 978-1-935797-47-0...

years. According to Sheila Weller, "[Simpson and Brown] were a dramatic, fractious, mutually obsessed couple before they married, after they married, after...

functions such as education, security, or governance (usually due to fractious violence or to extreme poverty), organized crime, governance, and war...

that the new Governor, Virius Lupus, was obliged to buy peace from a fractious northern tribe known as the Maeatae. The succession of militarily distinguished...

political situation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was fractious and violent. In 1927, the Independent Democratic Party, which represented...

August Ernst Reinhold Merges (3 March 1870 – 6 March 1945) was a German activist, politician and revolutionary. He was a member of various communist and...