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Example sentences for: dust-up

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The paper points out that the dust-up is a particular embarrassment for a president for whom military issues have always been a matter of special sensitivity.
The profile itself is pretty lame, and has caused a big dust-up over whether Hillary Clinton did or should have indulged in some head-shrinking speculation of her own about the source of husband Bill's sexual compulsions.
USA Today and the Washington Post lead with the dust-up over the expulsion by Iraq of some American members of a weapons inspection team.
After a bit of fussing from radio talk show hosts and newspaper columnists, the street-name dust-up blew over, but it's one of the few controversies connected with the Clinton Presidential Library that has.
Japan dust-up concerning shipping.