FALCONER, faced a fractious, overflowing, metropolitan crowd.

In a fractious world, global unity is especially vital.

Iran's Internet policy remains an often incoherent and fractious issue.

That's impossible. We'd get to bed late, tired and fractious.

Its politics grew fractious, its policies erratic, and its finances increasingly unstable.

That is how it should be India is a fractious democracy, China is not.

That is how it should be India is a fractious democracy, China is not.

Only the presence of foreign troops slows the further balkanization of the country s already fractious politics.

China must also consider the implications of North Korea s actions on its own fractious relations with Japan.

Both reformations were predicated on fractious discussion, internal self doubt and massive realignment of antiquated business models.

Economists are a fractious lot, but they are also stubborn investigators, so the controversy prompted new research into the effects of budgetary retrenchments.

The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

Much of the public is disenchanted by the instability caused by fractious and corrupt parliamentary leaders and by the Maoist insurgency, which has cost 12,000 lives in nine years.

It suggests that seriously challenging the nuclear venture will come not from more timid sanctions now, but from measures that encourage the pragmatists who populate the fractious Iranian government to promote normalization.

Xi now leads a new economic group that will coordinate and impose his reforms on fractious colleagues. And, unlike Hu, he immediately became head of the military and now runs a parallel national security council.

We have to make sure they're ready to be the leaders of this great country of ours, a country that is like no other, a country that amazes me every single day, a country that's fractious.

We have to make sure they're ready to be the leaders of this great country of ours, a country that is like no other, a country that amazes me every single day, a country that's fractious. We're always arguing with each other.

But there will be considerable concern in the West about the danger of a power vacuum or struggle in a geopolitically vital but fractious country and just when neighboring Somalia is supposed to be undergoing a transition to a new parliament and elected government.

Then there are rising tensions over plans by the United States to based a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the growing likelihood that further NATO enlargement will include Georgia, the increasingly prosperous neighbor with which Russia has fractious relations.

But Obama who had displayed a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in his Senate office, carried a locket of the Hindu god Hanuman, and spoke often of his desire to build a close strategic partnership with India struck the right symbolic chords in New Delhi and won over the fractious parliament.