So, part of this is just quibbling at the edges.
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Quibbling with the particulars of the list is one thing.
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Perhaps there is always quibbling when it comes to gumbo.
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This might be why Musk is now quibbling about the edit.
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There's no quibbling here on how Mars feels about Black people.
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Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
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It could've used Flocka or OJ Da Juiceman, but that's quibbling.
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"To be quibbling over interceptors is really a small tragedy," said Kazianis.
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But quibbling over color and finish is taking things a bit far.
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None of the pitchers seem to be quibbling with the new approach.
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Instead of quibbling over whether the FCC has authority to write the rules or not, and then quibbling over the rules themselves, the act just codifies the rules as law and sets the FCC as the official watchdog.
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Rather than have two more years of constant quibbling, he decided to go.
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But there is already quibbling over whether a full inspection will be allowed.
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Anyway, evil is evil and quibbling about nomenclature is a waste of energy.
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But there is no quibbling with Vandeweghe's results in the Grand Slam tournaments.
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I like Covenant a lot, while quibbling with much of it as well.
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Does quibbling with it cause rifts that the "Second Amendment community" can ill afford?
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But maybe this is quibbling too much, because it really was a good show.
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Yet perhaps the most substantive exchange of the afternoon involved quibbling about note-taking.
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And that would be a much better use of our time than quibbling over definitions.
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But just like the quibbling lords and ladies, you're all missing the big picture here.
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People are quibbling, like they do every 10 years, when a new decade actually begins.
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Mind you, I'm only quibbling about a good thing because of wanting more of it.
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For the amount of Netflix binging we do, we really shouldn't be quibbling over its cost.
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Democrats need to stop quibbling about whether the DNC rigged the nomination and confront this threat.
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While nutritional experts and bureaucrats are handwringing and quibbling about how to label foods, Mars Inc.
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Since management has found a solution, it should be implemented — without any quibbling about installation fees.
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Mostly these characters talk over and around each other, quibbling over semantics instead of articulating ideas.
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While quibbling with details here and there, Mr. Cohen did not disagree with the Republicans' critique.
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Many of the legal nuances being presented before the Supreme Court are subtle works of lawyerly quibbling.
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What's more Chipotle may be confusing matters by quibbling over what constitutes a truly additive-free menu.
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What he doesn't want to discuss, it seems, is historical quibbling when it comes to social issues.
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How he has done this is simultaneously novel and destined to earn the justifiable quibbling of purists.
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"We must be merciless…the legal quibbling, precautions and pretexts for insufficient action are not acceptable," he said.
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As for quibbling about the old-style vigilante tactics, the movie's fantastical qualities mitigate its real-world significance.
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Ultimately, there was no quibbling with a third straight European victory, no matter how much coffee was poured.
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Who knows how a 6-year-old would hear her mother's quibbling with a stranger over her prettiness?
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That, in turn, has tended to devolve into a kind of semantic quibbling over what a wave is.
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One can't help quibbling that the story seems designed with an eye to its own presumed dramatic adaptation.
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But the quibbling misses an important concern about what it means to argue for a female-only canon.
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However, your husband might try pleading having had a Bad Day to excuse his quibbling to his friend.
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The big picture: Wall Street is quibbling over the "quality" of UnitedHealth's earnings beat, but that doesn't really matter.
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Part of the problem with the trial process has been this quibbling over dollar amounts that would immediately affect consumers.
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Either way, for upwards of $100,000, it's not surprising at least a few customers are quibbling over the car's performance.
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I think if it's an expenditure rather than a liability you don't have to disclose expenditures, but that's lawyers quibbling.
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One human life would be too many (or, to prevent quibbling, one innocent human life), at least to my mind.
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Expect to see quibbling around this definition, particularly because the IRS hasn't given any specificity on how to apply it.
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The DNC and the bureau have been quibbling in news reports over whether the FBI asked to examine its servers directly.
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The DNC and the bureau have been quibbling in news reports over whether the FBI asked to examine its servers directly.
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Now, science has some advice for avoiding decades of quibbling away your final years as life's candle burns to its end.
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While he did not witness the incident, Skaggs has said Boucher and Paul have been quibbling over lawn maintenance for years.
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Of course, Kubo and the Two Strings is beautiful enough, and the story compelling enough, that such complaints feel like quibbling.
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ANNE If your proposed note would include quibbling with your neighbor over the reasonableness of his anger, I would skip it.
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Like any top-movies list (ours will be out soon), this is designed not just for enjoyment but also for quibbling.
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It's also illustrative of the quibbling going on between pundits, politicians, and opponents of the camps: When is a cage a cage?
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Mr. Moon's office has dismissed such concerns as "quibbling," noting that 24 nations, including Britain and Germany, operate embassies in the North.
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In past, non-pandemic times, the right would have likely unified in rallying against a government official publicly quibbling with the president.
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The photo made me wonder if we're running out of government officials who might help quibbling Americans normalize relations with one another.
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Mr. Trump, who spent his first days in office quibbling over the size of his inauguration crowd, had predicted an impressive turnout.
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A neighbor who did not want to be identified previously told CNN the two men have been "quibbling" over yard waste for years.
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Though the city played down that report as minor quibbling over administrative errors, the judge said it showed "near systemic failure" of oversight.
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Still, that's largely quibbling about a presentation that came about as close as TV can to conveying the allure of a live theatrical experience.
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I'll leave quibbling over the numbers to the experts, but the fact is that the 23X M23s are dead quiet (in a good way).
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At the same time she and a language adviser on headset are quibbling about how best to phrase "Where is your shirt?" in Zulu.
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"A neighbor who did not want to be identified said the two have been 'quibbling' over yard waste for years," CNN wrote on Nov. 7.
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Still, those ideas — about the betrayals inherent in love, democracy and musicals themselves — are too exciting and important to dismiss by quibbling them to death.
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"Your car was just stolen and taken on a joy ride and you're quibbling about which buttons were pushed on the radio?" the researcher said.
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Glasses of wine arrive in pre-measured beakers (no quibbling about pour sizes here), and everything clicks with a precision that is meticulous but never cold.
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Quibbling over offsets — deliberation — feels disrespectful, both to those who are suffering or grieving and to the first responders who confront the crisis and its aftermath.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Moon's office characterized those concerns as mere "quibbling," given that 24 nations, including Britain and Germany, operate embassies in Pyongyang, the North's capital.
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There might be room for quibbling as to whether S-day (S for starvation or for salvation — it all depends!) will fall in 1991 or 2048.
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Second-guessing The New Yorker's fiction department is something of a parlor game among members of the literati, but Prose wasn't interested in quibbling over aesthetics.
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It's not hard to imagine specialists quibbling over some of Kermani's interpretations, but would any of them be capable of evoking so many unexpected connections across borders?
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The real scandal isn't a semantic quibbling over whether a specific terms of service agreement or partnership program is exploitative — it's that such agreements are the norm.
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"What happens tomorrow is to do with the losers @bauermedia quibbling about how much they now have to pay me," Wilson tweeted the night before the judgment.
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Talking about your finances with your partner — whether you're quibbling over who paid for dinner last or deciding to make a big purchase — can be super stressful.
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Thus far, there has not been much quibbling between the many Democrats running for the party's 2020 nomination and some have said they're running against their friends.
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All this economics quibbling aside, what's interesting about this is that the emotional heart of anti-immigration politics has always been fear of foreigners rather than economics.
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From one perspective, quibbling over whether climate change will kill millions or billions is a silly waste of time when, in either case, we urgently need to act.
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Sticklers for genre classification might prefer to label the stories in this book something other than "horror" — "dark fiction," maybe, or noir — but what's the point of quibbling?
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"That might seem like scientists quibbling over terms or trying to argue for nerdy levels of precision, but a strong statement like that should mean something," she said.
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Also important to note, Zuckerberg is not quibbling with senators over their use of the word "breach," which execs got flack for early on in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Even quibbling over the nutritional content of these freeze-dried meals was something of a luxury, because I wasn't in a position where I actually needed to eat them.
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Facebook's attempt to discredit the suit, quibbling over definitions and saying the plaintiffs "know almost nothing" about the systems in question, did not go over well with the judge.
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Maybe it's because geek culture is no longer niche—quibbling about Wakanda's vibranium reserves is different when Black Panther has evolved from an obscure comic into a billion-dollar blockbuster.
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But either way, the most obvious way to fix these spending problems is to stop quibbling so much about revenues and reduce debt the way normal people do: Reduce spending!
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During the prior nine debates, Sanders' Democratic rivals had tried a lighter touch -- quibbling with the cost of his ideas or arguing that they couldn't possibly make it through Congress.
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After absorbing the general themes of the reinstallation, which will take time, we can get down to the quibbling that is the elixir of art talk in the big city.
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Mr. Trump exulted in large crowds assembled at cavernous venues throughout his 19953 bid, and spent the first days of his presidency quibbling over how many Americans attended his inauguration.
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Instead of quibbling over the past, it would be better to ponder what America should do to cut poverty—and here there is more agreement, or at least potential for compromise.
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The administration has pushed for a reorganization of the NPPD -- which currently houses a cyber-focused office -- but the particulars have been the subject of quibbling between the DHS and lawmakers.
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The editors of The New Oxford Shakespeare argue that they've been able to use computers to quantify and measure the kinds of aesthetic disparities critics have been quibbling over for years.
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The organization doesn't reveal numbers (the better to avoid quibbling about not paying its performers), but one current employee let slip the latest tally: last year, U.C.B. trained twelve thousand students.
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The quibbling over "hole" versus "house" has an absurdly transparent purpose — to allow Trump's allies to publicly distance him from a reported comment he now thinks is politically damaging to him.
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One way you know Democrat James Thompson faces long odds against Republican Ron Estes here: He's quibbling with the state Democratic Party over its rejection of his request for $223,22016 for mailers.
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The handwringing going on inside the administration over whether or not the Russian hacking is truly an attack on America's "critical infrastructure" seems like a bit too much quibbling for my taste.
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The administration has pushed for a reorganization of the NPPD — which currently houses a cyber-focused office — but the particulars have been the subject of some quibbling between the DHS and lawmakers.
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It's the silencing of Roth's unmistakable voice—hectic, quibbling, exhortative—that, even more than his relentlessly autobiographical tendencies, makes one feel as though a garrulous, ever-surprising old friend has been lost.
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"Quibbling over words at time when America is in danger doesn't make sense to me, particularly a resolution that he knows will not pass the House and not go to the president's desk."
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Not because of quibbling concerns about the efficacy of this program or that, but because all kinds of spending must be squeezed beneath the sacred cow of deep tax cuts for the wealthy.
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There's greater job securityWhen I was quibbling over whether to take the contract job or not, my friend Sal, who is the CEO of Studio Mucci, pointed out that job security is an illusion.
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Lepore isn't quibbling over my solutions or pointing out a contrary study — what she challenges are the premises, epistemology, and meta-structure that form the foundation of my book, and much of my work.
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All fiction depends on what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called "the willing suspension of disbelief," the reader's decision to put the argumentative, quibbling part of his mind into neutral and go along for the narrative ride.
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It felt a bit overlong this year, with the tag-team-heavy undercard not quite matching the fierce action of 2014's vintage, but this is quibbling over a couple years on a finely aged wine.
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If you couldn't make it through that paragraph without starting to formulate an objection, you already know the first problem with this theory: it invites a lot of quibbling over what is and isn't biologically feasible.
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For those on the outside, it may seem like inside-baseball quibbling, but, for better or worse, Taffer is one of the most visible representatives of an industry most of us patronize, and yet few understand.
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But quibbling over the word "robot" is beside the point: the point is that Quintana, who died last week, spent some of his last moments interacting with a person through a screen rather than face-to-face.
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The fund, which says it has received "a lot of inbound comment" in support of its move, said it was not looking for "a quibbling debate", but expected the miner known as the Big Australian to respond.
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Anyone who predicted in 1999 that median income would be lower in 2015 would have been regarded as ridiculously pessimistic, and nobody would have thought that quibbling over exactly how we calculate the inflation rate was the difference maker.
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Simon has endured by easing up, and even his increasingly frequent invocations of God serve less to aggrandize his observations than to deflate them; from a cosmic point of view, his joys and sorrows seem like so much quibbling.
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After weeks of twiddling his thumbs, ignoring the steady degradation of the system, or quibbling about how many board seats he controls at the MTA, Cuomo is finally stepping up and owning the disaster that is the New York City subway.
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Amazon has put out a first trailer for Transparent season three, and it looks downright wonderful, putting aside the family's quibbling for the kind of bigger, sweeter moments that'll remind fans why they love the series in the first place.
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"Quibbling over whether Angola will honor a commitment to cut its production by a few tens of thousands of barrels per day is really not the issue," Hall wrote, adding that the output of most OPEC members has possibly peaked in recent years.
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This weekend, while Facebook was quibbling about whether the information used by Cambridge Analytica to target voters in the lead up to the 2016 election was obtained in a data "breach" or somehow using fraudulent means, I decided to check my privacy settings.
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It's hard to feel love for your fellow man when the tourists ahead of you in line are quibbling over paying tax, or holding up their bowls to ask, after the fact, if they can have a new set of noodles without herbs.
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Ryan dodged Friday when asked about the prospects of Mexico paying for the wall "I'm not going to get into a quibbling about whether they should or should not pay for it, because we need to get something done," Ryan said at a Politico event Friday.
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After representatives for Democrats and President Trump exchanged some heated words — the kind of stuff you might hear in the House of Representatives but less commonly in the austere Senate — Roberts interjected to remind them that in the Senate, pettifogging (quibbling over small points) is unwelcome.
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Many moms — quibbling over organic snacks and Mandarin lessons — went expecting to see an everyday mom celebrated for her heroism and were instead reminded that they should get over their self-involved sense of hardship and be grateful that nothing in their home is going seriously wrong.
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A quick estimate on their part suggests that the social media activity may have increased attacks by 13 percent or so — not a number to be quoted as definitive, but rather an indicator that we are not quibbling over half a percent here and there but meaningful numbers.
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But it is far from clear that they could survive a regime that doubles or triples the size of that tax, insisting that now that the principle of taxation for university endowment is in place, it is petty quibbling about details to challenge any increase in its level.
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"I'm not going to get into quibbling about whether they should or should not pay for it," Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) told a Politico event Friday.
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Quibbling over genre definitions is a dead end, but it puzzles me when critics class Frank Ocean and Sampha as R&B, let alone treat them as an elevation of R&B (from what to what, exactly?); it's clear that quiet, watered-down, genreless treacle is what they're aiming for.
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" Later, when Justice Stephen Breyer raised a similar question and Tripp began answering about when certain underlying crimes would be covered under the detention provision, Gorsuch interjected, said that back-and-forth was "quibbling," and redirected Tripp to the larger question: "Justice Breyer's question is my question, and I really wish you'd answer it.
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But instead of the deliberative processes in place during the Obama administration that made for lengthy National Security Council staff meetings, Mr. Trump has approved allowing his commanders more authority, giving the Pentagon a rare freedom to assert its control over national security policy from a commander in chief who eschews quibbling over the details.
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Then, not six months later, City Council pivoted and agreed to pave the way for a max of four medical marijuana dispensaries — yet there is still ongoing quibbling about who is allowed to grow marijuana and how many plants they are allowed, outside of the six plants allowed by state law for individual patients with a medical license.
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As outlined in a Tweet, their aims for the upcoming conference include building greater resilience to the impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels, as well as enhancing access to disaster insurance—which begs a reminder for quibbling developed nations that it is countries like Fiji that are already adversely feeling the devastating impacts of climate change.
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And as a physicist at heart, I also can't resist the bigger picture: Here we are on our little planet, quibbling about the next election cycle, when we actually have the potential for life to flourish for billions of years here on Earth and throughout the cosmos, with hundreds of billions of solar systems and hundreds of billions of galaxies.
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But even though the people doing the proposing and counter-proposing have stayed the same, the proposals themselves have evolved rapidly, to the point where there appears to be broad agreement on the two things that initially seemed like the biggest sticking points: If a bill were put on the floor this instant that included just those two things, there would still be plenty of quibbling.
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But, given that the Umbrella Three have been jailed for conducting a political protest, and the decision to prosecute and appeal their sentences was made by a political appointee -- Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen -- who, it is reported, overruled Department of Justice career civil servants and senior public prosecutors in making his decision, to try to argue they are not political prisoners is little more than quibbling.
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