How To Use Fracas In A Sentence
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Neither was involved in the fracas; but neither is returning calls.
Times, Sunday Times
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At this point the meeting dissolved into an ugly fracas, the Committee fleeing before a barrage of stale sandwiches and dry-roasted cashew nuts.
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We have been advised to tip 15%, but will it cause a fracas to leave less?
Times, Sunday Times
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Darell el alternativismo de la realidad impresa bajo tonadas e imagenes elocuentes casi tactiles cien porciento volatiles bajo tambien la sorpresa de hombres dominados por su instinto controlado por maquinas para que al final sea el mismo hombre quien se destruya asi mismo bajo la vision de sus propios miedos y fracasos para quedar absolutamente solo aunque este este rodeado de los mismos seres inertes y ya sin corazon ….
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However, the lowlight of the tournament was a fracas between a player and an umpire.
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The fracas is typical of the miniscule Liberal Party, which has been mired in internal disputes for seven years.
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By the time we discover the link between the blue bloods, the dead people, and the fracasing kinfolk, we've lost all interest in the outcome or reveal.
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His friend was also treated for minor injuries after he was knocked to the floor during the fracas and has been discharged from hospital.
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The cause of the fracas was something gentlemanly, too.
The Sun
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However the impasse is resolved, the fracas that has followed the USFWS bluebill-limit reduction has underscored anew how much Minnesota waterfowlers love this bird.
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He then joined the fracas, slipping in two or three good blows before the blue was broken up.
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What seems to have gotten lost in the fracas is that the proposed measure passed by a vote of 243-161 as an amendment to a $19.4 billion foreign aid bill.
Balkinization
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A chef on trial for killing a man in a fracas outside a pub told the jury yesterday he had just been trying to defend himself from a group of people who had set on him.
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You may recall the fracas over the cross in the Mojave desert shown here that was up before the U.S.
Court calls a war memorial cross unconstitutional -- again
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I look like I've been involved in a drunken fracas with a broken bottle around the nose area with mucho stitching and loads of dried blood smeared around my face.
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Angry scenes and ugly fracas are commonplace as people scramble for the few available taxis.
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He felt intensely the stupidity of the whole affair, but thought he could not avoid the fight without degradation; while to Shields such a fracas was a delight.
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Fracastoro could not resolve the origins of syphilis and didn't even recognize its venereal mode of transmission.
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The name syphilis comes from a poem written by the physician Girolamo Fracastoro in 1530, about a shepherd named Syphilus who offended the god Apollo and was punished with the world's first case of the pox.
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He lives a quiet life off the field, stays away from police blotters, night-club fracases, drugs, and other things that other notorious athletes get drawn to like moths to the bug zapper.
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The full video of the fracas was shown and all of the personnel caught on camera making physical contact were identified.
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It was this habit that caused the fracas at the Aeroflot Open.
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At least 2,000 people pelted security forces with cobblestones during the fourth consecutive night of often bloody fracas.
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The housing-market uncertainty stemming from the foreclosure fracas is unabated, despite moves by Bank of America Corp. and GMAC to resume some suspended foreclosure sales.
Niche Lawyers Spawned Housing Fracas
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Mike Walker says the fracas was the culmination of six months of bickering among the staffers despite attempts he and his business partner made to resolve things.
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He has said he found the ball loose amid the fracas and that Popov is trying to bully him into surrendering it.
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A couple of mobsters were rubbed out in a fracas with the law.
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Dior's Fall/Winter Collection Survives Galliano Fracas Getty Images Instead, the French fashion house strove to re-evoke its rich history, sending old-style knickers, black-cashmere capes and dressing gowns down the runway.
Dior Show Looks Past Galliano, Evokes Fashion Label's History
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Nec interrogant (saith [2523] Fracastorius) nec interrogatis recte respondent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Spectators who witnessed the fracas summoned police who arrived within minutes to find the incident had fizzled out.
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In November a fracas developed between two factions within the Lab, but Haynes and Moore remained.
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At least 2,000 people pelted security forces with cobblestones during the fourth consecutive night of often bloody fracas.
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Three men were injured in the fracas and were in hospital.
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The incident sparked a full-scale fracas as players from both sides pointed the finger at each other.
The Sun
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The auction snub caused a diplomatic fracas between the countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It wasn't pretty, although it had its own intramural dog-fight charm, the kind of ridiculous, bareknuckled fracas that can now be found almost exclusively on the Internet.
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According to reports, that may have been a factor in the alleged fracas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fracas between Harvard's new president and its top Afro-American studies profs highlights black academia's fixation on victimhood and double standards.
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There seem to be as many holiday season fracases as there are courthouse lawns, town squares, schools, and other public spaces.
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At least 2,000 people pelted security forces with cobblestones during the fourth consecutive night of often bloody fracas.
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Thanks to Dr. Shellie for the pointer. (reminder: The fracas is over the intimidation of prospective MIT hire by a senior faculty member).
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During the fracas, the prince got bonked on his nose.
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Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered.
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Joining the fracas is Owl, who is given a sex-change operation here.
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Altogether, his response in this incident - tempered in comparison with other fracases he's been involved in - was very much in line with public opinion.
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In 1530, the physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro christened the disease in his classically inspired poem "Syphilis."
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My life was a series of fracases; every day brought a new knee jerk re-action and after a few months I left for Paris.
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The fracas has put WikiLeaks in the position of decrying what it called the "reckless" and "negligent" disclosure of information—something WikiLeaks' critics have long accused it of doing itself.
WikiLeaks Blames Paper for Breach
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Robert Cunningham, 35, who suffered a broken rib in the fracas, admitted assault.
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La camionnette démarre avec fracas et la jeune fille ferme derrière elle la lourde porte, relique de temps moins sûrs.
Jules
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He was injured in a Saturday-night fracas outside a disco.
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Gardaí said they are not treating the death as suspicious as it is not believed her death was directly linked to the fracas.
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In the ensuing media fracas, McAvoy's bust has rivalled Jordan's for the number of column inches generated.
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How to set up and execute FRACAS with product teams and manage reliability growth?
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Then some jumped-up English playwright wrote about this whole fracas.
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The diplomatic fracas has arisen from a legal principle known as universal jurisdiction.
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She suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone and claimed to have had blurred vision and numbness in her face following the fracas.
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A few players from each side got involved in a fracas, but thankfully common sense prevailed.
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He had recently been told that he was being removed from the inquiry after becoming involved in a fracas in Spain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the more literate ones did write down a few particulars soon after the fracas in letters to friends and relatives.
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There was a row and fracas between the two women and all were thrown out.
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During the fracas, a single gun shot was fired leaving a 24-year-old man wounded..
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The Prime Minister has joined the fracas over the proposed changes to the health service.
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The damage and assault charges were connected with that incident when the shopkeeper locked the door, brought out a baseball bat and there was a fracas, he said.
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The fracas over his cabinet appointments provides further evidence of a style of leadership that could be described as detached at best.
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The fracas seems to be primarily the work of one person, presuming to speak for the entire class, when in fact he spoke only for himself.
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The immediate cause of the fracas was the appearance of sundry articles, copied from the _New York Times_, referring to the "Lola Montez-like insolence, bare-faced hypocrisy, and effrontery of Queen Christina of Spain.
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Tuberose is still obvious in heart note of "tubéreuse criminelle", but I don't get it in "Fracas", whereas Fracas is meant to be THE tuberose fragrance.
Fracas
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There were fights and fracas where I saw guns, knives, baseball bats and the rest, but nothing I couldn't handle.
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A cocaine dealer who got into the trade to make easy money was caught after he got involved in a drunken fracas outside a nightclub.
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The recent Alan Blinder fracas is a case in point.
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About 50-60 drunken and disorderly people spilled on to the Market Cross as police units from two counties and seven towns were called to the fracas.
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Graham, does the dict. happen to contain the word fracas?
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La camionnette démarre avec fracas et la jeune fille ferme derrière elle la lourde porte, relique de temps moins sûrs.
Jules
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Fracas, that mother of all big floral scents, the strange, kinky Diva Tubereuse Criminelle, and the lustrously beautiful Carnal Flower.
Archive 2007-07-01
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The claim makes me think of the trial where a man was charged with biting off another man's ear in a bar fight. (Incredibly, Mike Tyson was not involved. ) An eyewitness to the fracas took the stand.
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Its penetrating tone could carry far and rise above the fracas.
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That doesn't excuse the initial actions of the players, but the whole thing had a really ugly aspect to it in terms of the number of people involved and the different little fracases that went on.
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The fracas, in which punches were traded and others were knocked to the ground, lasted about four minutes.
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His understanding of the situation was that a fracas had spilled over from the field of play to where substitutes were sitting and they got involved.
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Apparently knives and shotguns had just been wielded during a fracas in the bar and the local constabulary were called in to help out.
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Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered.
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- Today I'm basking in the cheerful butteriness of L'Artisan's Tuberose, but when I get home I think I will break out the Fracas and see if *maybe* the time is finally here when I can wear it w/out it completely wearing me.
Fracas
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Fowler also suffered a suspected broken nose in April 1999 during a fracas outside a Liverpool hotel.