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  • So obviously this means they are going to trade Big Ben now, considering he has had "Altercations" with two females in two different years.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News MJD 2010

  • Altercations with police, including one on Saturday that resulted in more than 700 arrests after marchers shut down half of the Brooklyn Bridge, make things even more complicated.

    Politicians Pinched by Protest Downtown Andrew Grossman 2011

  • Altercations were not uncommon, and their furies, against each other or strangers, sometimes spilled into the open.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • Altercations arose between indigenous Cambodians and Vietnamese soldiers.

    1982 2001

  • Altercations are most likely to be settled through reasoned discussion, sometimes by greatly respected teams of logicians.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Altercations are most likely to be settled through reasoned discussion, sometimes by greatly respected teams of logicians.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Altercations occured on Monday when about six families who volunteered to move to new land in Diepsloot near Randburg were attacked by other squatters.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Altercations with other mages were never settled until he had subjugated any who came against him.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • America, I know stand like Mount Atlass, but these Altercations occasion a great deal of Unhappiness for the present, and they prolong the

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1779 1973

  • Instead of acrimonious Altercations between Town and Country and between

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1777 1963

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