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  • noun Plural form of strife.

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Examples

  • I would not always get answers that satisfied my own whims, and Instead of wasting precious time wrestling over "questions and strifes of words," (Ist Timothy 6: 4) and it was far better to focus on wholesome things.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • I would not always get answers that satisfied my own whims, and Instead of wasting precious time wrestling over "questions and strifes of words," (Ist Timothy 6: 4) and it was far better to focus on wholesome things.

    The Good News 2009

  • I would like everyone to be wary of this poster if you don't want to get embroiled in the problems listed in I Timothy 6: 4. (doting about questions and strifes of words that produce envy, strife, railings, perverse disputings, etc)

    Is It Too Late? 2008

  • And to be sincere to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, we must never forget that Their Teaching is NOT a religion — religions belong to the old humanity, full of divisions and strifes and groups and limitations.

    Whoever has come to Puducherry to pray can't escape his or her "complicity" Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • And to be sincere to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, we must never forget that Their Teaching is NOT a religion — religions belong to the old humanity, full of divisions and strifes and groups and limitations.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Could both of the coup d'etat's - in Haiti and Rwanda - that brought on the civil strifes, have been engineered to bring about more neo-liberal economics and financial colonialism?

    Obama's offered HOPE is sweatshop slavery 2009

  • The Bible talks about such people as "doting about questions and strifes of words .."

    The Deconstruction of Women's Clothing 2007

  • But there's also a sense of regardless of your political strifes, you can't really ignore the significance of the event.

    CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2009 2009

  • Recent topics on many blogs revolve around the strifes of 24/7 policing.

    Blood Red Shoes « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • After a stormy and troubled life, a life full of sacrifices and bitter strifes he sleeps his last sleep.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Lysander Spooner: 2009

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