NO academic discipline has been spared the experience, at some stage in its development, of very bitter quarrels over theory and methodology.

Lived through the bitter quarrels within the Yiddish left.

This sometimes led to bitter quarrels and in-family warring.

He could not stand criticism, and seems to have exhausted much of his energy conducting bitter academic quarrels.

There were bitter quarrels between Valerie and me.

There had been bitter public quarrels between the two, but all the evidence against Helen was circumstantial.

True enough, other bitter quarrels have yielded to compromise elsewhere.

The House inquiry dissolved into bitter partisan quarrels from the start.

There were, perhaps, reasons why she might want to stay away from her home, where her stepfather's anger and bitter quarrels had erupted recently.

Since then bipartisanship has given way to bitter quarrels.