dictionnaire Allemand - Anglais

Streit Anglais:

1. strife

political/ethnic/religious strife

The priest listened calmly as the arguing couple told him about the strife in their marriage

Their marriage was going through numerous strifes recently.

20 years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.

What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between Christian minority and Muslim majority

Plagued with social strife for decades, the central African nation of Rwanda may finally be primed for a turnaround.

Marriage, in peace, is this world's paradise; in strife, this life's purgatory.

Strife is the rock on which the party split.

Anglais mot "Streit"(strife) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Over Here" (Edgar A. Gu...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Book of Epigrams" (Va...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Poems" (Jamie Harris Co...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Sheaf of Roses" (Eliz...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "A Spring Harvest" (Geof...

2. quarrel

Brothers should not quarrel.

The quarrel left an unpleasant aftertaste.

Will had know they would drag him into the quarrel sonner or later.

A quarrel brought about the break.

Their quarrel sprung from misunderstanding.

No one in his right mind wants anything to do with a domestic quarrel.

A quarrel estranged one boy from the other.

It seemed the quarrel would finally be talked out, when Mark added fuel to the fire by bringing up the question of who was guilty.

They had a bitter quarrel about some money three years ago and they haven't spoken to each other since.

Among other common reasons for breaking up are housing problems, infidelity, negligence towards familiy duties, a conflict of values and, above all, alcohol abuse which riuns family life and leads to quarrels and acts od violence.

What did you quarrel about/over?

The parents quarrel very often and the children are not taken care of.

Ken always stands up for his mom when his parents quarrel.

Love is a quarrel which begins between a woman and a man and never finishes.

Anglais mot "Streit"(quarrel) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "People Soup" (Alan Arkin)
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "My Book of Ten Fishes" ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Panjandrum Picture ...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Index for Works of Neil...
Flashcards aus dem Buch - "Index for Works of Will...

3. dispute

A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.

a question in dispute

The Sea of Japan naming dispute revolves around efforts to remove 'Sea of Japan' from the world's maps and replace it with 'East Sea'.

The end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.

After much negotiation, the two sides in the dispute reached a compromise.

Nothing is ever done here without dispute.

The number of days lost through industrial dispute is shown in the table on the facing page.

After a long dispute the coal mines closed and the remaining miners were paid off.

Problems can occur when there are disputes between partners.

My client strongly disputes Mr DeCarrico's version of events. He disputed the arrangements, which he thought were inadequate.

An employer and his/her employee shall aim at a conciliatory settlement of disputes arising from an employment relationship.

Definition if there is a dispute about something, people cannot agree about it and so they argue about it

I wouldn’t want to dispute the fact that Real Madrid are a good football club but there are better ones like Manchester United, you know!

"It appears to be a land dispute, Ensign," Thrawn said.

I don't dispute the facts you've presented but only the conclusion you draw from them.

Anglais mot "Streit"(dispute) se produit dans des ensembles:

Flashcards aus dem Buch - "The Hour Glass" (W. B. ...
Cup of tea - Part 1

4. argument

His argument was logical.

The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.

I find your argument too convoluted. Couldn't you try to make it simpler and more concise?

Yea... Dima continued, talking mostly to himself. "It's as if the author of my story got into some stupid argument, retired to Fiji, and just left me here to rot."

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

My argument is indebted in a number of places to the aesthetic theories of Adorno, Horkheimer and others.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this — that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made, not to understand, but to feel, as crime.

There are a lot of people who say, "it says this in Koujien," and use that dictionary as the only grounds for their argument.

In a sense, I am turning around the argument made by David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd.

Argument continues about the "White collar exemption" that exempts specific white collar workers from the "8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week," working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

Then an argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew about purification.

An argument is a conversation in which people disagree with each other angrily or noisily

An argument is a disagreement between two or more people, but it can also be a statement backed by evidence, like your argument that your school doesn't need a dress code.

People sometimes pretend to be cheerful (pogodny wesoły) after an argument. Drivers in my city often get into arguments with other ones.

Only in philosophy can you use a circular argument and get praised for it.