(n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guy Simplice, spokesman for president Michel Djotodia, said by phone there had been heavy fighting near the seat of government, before the army was able to block the aggressors.
(2) Unfortunately, presently available non-surgical modalities do not discriminate between aggressor (tumor) and defender (lymphocyte) cells.
(3) There is no doubt about who the aggressor was here.
(4) He urges Corbynites to deploy “message discipline”, reach out to the middle income people, the moderates in the Labour party, those opposed to immigration and more broadly to avoid internal confrontations “so that if he is attacked by those determined to undermine his democratically decided leadership they are exposed as the aggressors”.
(5) The use of acetylcholnesterase inhibitors was proved in one aggressor's diversion (Zadar, Krusevo, July, 1991).
(6) They are not the aggressors and have shown no appetite for expansion.
(7) Observation of the subcutaneous hemorrhage by transillumination may provide an indication of the horizontal alignment of the aggressor's dentition since the force of occlusion used in delivery of the bite mark is a factor in the presence and intensity of the hemorrhage.
(8) When mixed in urine from castrated males, however, the steroid was shown to induce agonistic behavior in aggressors.
(9) In dreams in which the dreamer was either the aggressor or victim, dreamers from the East coast were more likely to be the aggressor than those from the Midwest and West coast.
(10) Although sexual assaults in general clearly involve multiple causes or factors, social and cultural as well as individual, many sexual aggressors do show psychological or biologic abnormalities which require careful evaluation.
(11) Updated at 5.36pm BST 5.28pm BST Third set: *Djokovic 4-6, 6-3, 3-3 Nadal (*denotes server) At 15-all, a ridiculous point, Nadal the aggressor, winging forehands to Djokovic's backhand corner, before the opportunity to play a drop presents itself.
(12) Frequency of aggression was directly related to level of aggressor shock intensity in Experiment II.
(13) A wide variety of exogenous or endogenous aggressors exhibit the capacity to induce pulmonary granulomatous lesions.
(14) She added: "Repugnant as it was that the aggressor should gain anything from his aggression, this seemed an acceptable price to pay.
(15) Or that we were the aggressors, rather than the victims.
(16) In 35% of the live cases the husband was the aggressor and in 12% a former cohabitant.
(17) Lymphocytes and a small number of mononuclear phagocytes were found adjacent to damaged keratinocytes in the epidermis, the picture of which has been described as satellite cell necrosis, a hallmark of cytotoxic reaction by aggressors.
(18) An experimental explored the relative effectiveness of two strategies for controlling interracial aggression: observing other individuals censured for aggression and potential direct censure of the aggressor himself.
(19) The government is giving prizes to the aggressors, and we, the victims are left with nothing,” said Alicia, whose brother was killed by the Farc in 2007.
(20) Enhancing antibodies had no effect on the cytotoxicity of aggressor cells, but horse antibodies to rat thoracic duct cells inhibited in vitro CMC of aggressor cells.
Quarrel
Definition:
(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member
(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
(n.) A glazier's diamond.
(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
(n.) Earnest desire or longing.
(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
(v. t.) To quarrel with.
(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(3) This quarrel split the black movement down the middle, and was compounded by Du Bois's ideas on leadership.
(4) The pair departed La Liga last summer, only to quarrel again at Chelsea and Manchester City.
(5) Berezovsky, a Kremlin insider in the days of Boris Yeltsin, left Russia in 2000 after a quarrel with Vladimir Putin and has been the subject of an extradition order by Russia .
(6) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(7) It's a quarrel between substance and form, if you like, a question of emphasis – does a country's nature owe most to its history, or to its land?
(8) It fell to Van Rompuy to deal with quarrelling national leaders over the EU's worst ever crisis – the euro, the sovereign debt and financial turmoil.
(9) But American conservatives for the most part have had no quarrel with vaccines – unless they are on a collision course with other deeply held beliefs, said John Evans, who teaches bioethics at the University of California at San Diego and is married to Schreiber.
(10) Although Arendt agreed with the final verdict of the trial, namely, that Eichmann should be condemned to death, she quarreled with the reasoning put forward at the trial and with the spectacle of the trial itself.
(11) While we are rooted here going la-la-la auld Ireland (because at this distance in time the words escape us) our neighbours are patching their quarrels, losing their origins and moving on, to modern, non-sectarian forms of stigma, expressed in modern songs: you are a scouser, a dirty scouser.
(12) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
(13) The few big publishers that now continue functioning at all under the deliberately destructive pressure of Amazon marketing strategies are increasingly controlled by that pressure.” The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: “Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is.” She assures her readers that her “only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.” She stressed that she has no issue with other areas of the tech giant’s business, including self-publishing: “Amazon and I are not at war.
(14) A case of a 35-year-old male who died suddenly after a blow on the chest by his opponent during a quarrel.
(15) They never subsequently claimed exclusive credit, and never quarrelled.
(16) By the 1970's the quarrel shifted from affective questions to matters of effectiveness and efficiency.
(17) Establishment outrage reached spittingly aggressive proportions when Ali, pleading deferment on religious grounds, told reporters: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong … no Vietcong ever called me ‘nigger’.” Within an hour, outraged, all US boxing bodies suspended his licence and stripped him of his title.
(18) I was brought up in a culture that shied away from argument because wherever there is quarrelling there will sooner or later be murder.
(19) But Quo Vadis laid bare an inhibition possibly implanted in his schooldays or by his quarrelling parents; he could not portray passionate feelings without looking foolish.
(20) One rhetorical feature of her book on Eichmann is that she is, time and again, breaking out into a quarrel with the man himself.