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Example sentences for: fractious

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The editorial described India as "an overpopulated country with a fractious, hungry population, an unstable government, and age-old hatred with its neighbours" and said "the world has good reason to be nervous" about that country's new nuclear capabilities.
A columnist says that Albright's European-history background will help her set Asia policy, since 21 st -century East Asia will resemble 19 th -century Europe: rich, expanding, and fractious.
So how and why did two families of scale insects tame and domesticate their potentially fractious polar bodies, rather than killing them like normal animals do?
The South China Morning Post said that the offer "gives Turkey another chance to deal with its largest and most fractious minority in a reasonable way.
By the 11th century, the caliphate had splintered into a mosaic of fractious states — 26 at one point, and the Balearics became an independent emirate.