(n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(2) They were there for an hour and there was definitely no 'altercation' as this person is making out.
(3) The Ukip leadership contender Steven Woolfe has been discharged from hospital after an altercation with a fellow MEP.
(4) Costa was sent off with six minutes remaining in his side’s 2-0 FA Cup defeat on Saturday after an altercation with Gareth Barry.
(5) Fatal traumatic thrombosis of the left internal carotid artery occurred in a 38-year-old man following minor blunt cervical trauma during an altercation.
(6) On the leaks to the media of the original altercation, which was passed to the Sun, and of an email describing what happened, which has become known as the official log, which was given to the Daily Telegraph, she said that because there was no evidence of payment a jury was likely to decide that it was in the public interest for the events at the Downing Street gate to be made public.
(7) A white man and an African American woman got into a brief altercation over politics, and officers loaded a handful of protesters into an NYPD van, placing their belongings into plastic bags one by one.
(8) Willing to send himself up for advertising campaigns but taking his art extremely seriously, Cantona has at times been repulsed by the media (most obviously in his post-Selhurst Park suspension phase but also in a more recent altercation with a paparazzo in north London) but also used it to his advantage.
(9) Madison’s police chief, Mike Koval, said at a press conference that an officer shot a 19-year-old, who he said was responsible for a recent battery, during an altercation.
(10) But police apparently did not even tape off the area around the altercation – a basic requirement to secure a crime scene and gather forensic evidence.
(11) One man who tried to stop the altercation was also punched.
(12) The incident was not the only altercation at the Trump campaign event on Saturday.
(13) Eric Holder , the US attorney general, said at a press conference in Washington: “Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of officer Wilson.” The decision ended the second half of a politically-charged investigation into Wilson’s shooting of Brown on 9 August following an altercation in a residential side-street.
(14) Hours earlier, Ulivarri’s son, Luís Carlos, 23, had been shot in a bar, and then dragged into the night after an altercation with a group of men presumed to be members of a local drug cartel.
(15) Many street disputes are not gang or even clique related, but the climate of violence created by the gangs, with their ready access to arms, means that a Hobbesian, kill-or-be-killed mentality can afflict even the most minor altercations.
(16) The polarisation of the club’s stands into separate areas that are almost all white and stands that are ethnically mixed proved a backdrop for violent race altercations between the club’s own fans.
(17) The meeting was called ostensibly to clear the air after revelations about an altercation Mitchell had had with Metropolitan police officers in Downing Street, when he was the government's chief whip.
(18) The altercation in Downing Street on 19 September last year took place after two police officers on duty refused to let him ride his bicycle through the gates.
(19) Alan Pardew denied head-butting Hull's David Meyler in a touchline altercation but conceded he would be "stupid" not to expect the Football Association to come down hard on him in the coming days.
(20) The officer chased the man, an altercation ensued and the man fired at the officer, the police chief said.
Dissension
Definition:
(n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The TABP tendency of the boys decreased as the manifest dissension or conflict in the family grew, in marked contrast with the tendency seen in girls, suggesting that conflict in the family can either weaken or reinforce TABP.
(2) But political errors on the home front soon brought internal dissension, arguments with his foreign backers, and a return to Congo's endemic civil war.
(3) The file notes said: "Action could be taken to discredit prominent Communist and other public figures, and to propagate dissension in Communist parties and organisations by (i) dispatch of forged letters through the post, and (ii) the planting of manufactured evidence."
(4) Even as he faces a major new crisis and weeks of bad news to overcome – a lackluster GOP convention; deeply negative views of his handling of the attack in Libya; dissension in the campaign ranks – Romney is maintaining a remarkably light campaign schedule, York writes : He had one public appearance on his schedule Monday, Sept. 17, a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
(5) Coalition dissension pivots around the statutory Prevent guidance shortly to be issued under the Counterterrorism and Security Act .
(6) Without mentioning Moscow by name, Pyatt said there was also an "active campaign right now" to stir up dissension and division across the country.
(7) Now it seems to have been postponed again in the face of great military difficulties and dissension between the Kurdish and Iraqi forces, who are both fighting Isis together and manoeuvring against each other for position in the scarcely imaginable peacetime Iraq that must eventually emerge from all this horror.
(8) So our jobs just became a bit more important, not only to brighten the spirits of those who need it, and to make sense of what’s going on, but also to make sure voices of dissension and criticism are heard.
(9) In recent years the field of Japanese psychiatry has been troubled by dissension and occasional violence.
(10) To emphasize the problem of the objectification of the vertebral painful syndrome at the polyclinic they present two case reports, draw attention to the dissension of views of polyclinic specialists as concerns etiopathogenesis of vertebral diseases and related to it the problem of objectification with regard to work ability.
(11) Dissension over music resulted in a multitude of other brawls and Jet magazine reported that a white officer was killed in Quang Tri after ordering black soldiers to turn down their music.
(12) In an apparent reference to Iran, which Gulf Arab ruling elites fear may capitalise on an uprising by Shiites in Bahrain, he also expresssed "strong rejection of any foreign interference in the kingdom's internal affairs, asserting that any acts aiming to destabilise the kingdom and sow dissension between its citizens represent a dangerous encroachment on the whole GCC security and stability."
(13) However, considerable dissension has surrounded the concept of neutrality.
(14) The controversial dissension concerning the nature of the pentose cycle in liver is investigated.
(15) Suicidal and self-destructive behavior on a psychiatric inpatient service are said to be related to the degree of staff demoralization and dissension.
(16) By the 1980s the decline of psychiatric power, dissension among ex-patients, and new social trends vitiated the anti-psychiatry movement.
(17) Where the journalists' subterfuge, misrepresentation and use of clandestine devices themselves create public dissension from cabinet decisions that otherwise would not exist, the journalists cannot claim that they were acting to prevent a pre-existing misleading impression.
(18) His public challenge to US, British and French direct military intervention is likely to deepen Nato dissension and alarm western leaders who hoped Turkey had now acquiesced in the thrust of the Libya mission.
(19) The break followed "a review of his coaching needs", and there was no dissension in the camp.
(20) When his casting was announced, there was dissension: he wasn’t hot enough, they said.