Her comment came as relations between the two camps became increasingly fractious.

They did little, however, to soothe the increasingly fractious division between the old and the new that was emerging in American letters.

The committee session, short as a thunderstorm, highlighted the increasingly fractious politics surrounding Republican proposals to roll back regulations.

Part of the challenge faced by the Americans here is the need to corral the increasingly fractious political class.

He was the last king of Ava who was able to hold on to the increasingly fractious kingdom in its entirety.

She headed one of several factions vying for control within the increasingly fractious confederacy.

He brought a level-headedness to the increasingly fractious arena of European foreign politics and remained cool in a crisis.

What the plan did not take into account were the increasingly fractious relations among three of the four Beatles.

Dr. Reynolds resigned after an increasingly fractious relationship with the board.

But he is also emerging as a possible compromise candidate within the increasingly fractious Fatah.