(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) They all abstain from social media for fear of getting embroiled in some brouhaha.
(3) Before it, Koke was sliding into challenges like a nut down the left, nearly starting a minor brouhaha.
(4) 9.16pm BST 57 min: Now Snodgrass and Walcott go in the book for the second-biggest handbag-based brouhaha this week.
(5) Gove's reforms haven't caused the same "brouhaha" as the health reforms, Bell points out.
(6) In all the brouhaha, let's not forget England were on the front foot at the end of the half.
(7) The history of mutual antipathy runs deep and when Wenger said he did not wish to comment on whether he would shake the Chelsea manager’s hand, his expression tightening, the tension this whole brouhaha provokes was palpable.
(8) Three months before the brouhaha over Asterix and the Picts , she slipped quietly into the shops as translator of Eugen Ruge's In Times of Fading Light – the story of three generations of an East German family.
(9) Second, the handful of service companies so often at the centre of these brouhahas – Capita , Serco , G4S – are working honourably to the modern business objective of maximising profit, but they do not necessarily care what this does to the NHS, or to the staff who keep it upright.
(10) I had read the pieces about it I had heard the substance of the brouhaha.
(11) 3.57pm BST In all the commotion on Centre and the row over Lisicki's time-out, I missed the brouhaha at the end of the Lopez-Wawrinka match.
(12) But beyond all the brouhaha about the cost of the contents of her makeup bag, which Jezebel totted up to a whopping $1,977.75 (around £1,290), the most interesting revelation (and the only free tip) is that Kardashian only washes her hair every five days.
(13) "The whole brouhaha has become so complex over what the implications are for John Brennan, and whether the Post has done this for political reasons.
(14) At that time, it wasn't surrounded by all the briefed brouhaha about squatters, but was clearly aimed at Travellers.
(15) 10.47pm: Clarke added that he spent yesterday touring the TV studios because it was "let's face it, a media brouhaha".
(16) Nevertheless, it is my policy to leave no bandwagon unjumped, and so here's my contribution to the unfolding brouhaha.
(17) Recently, without much discussion or brouhaha, railings and barriers disappeared from London's major roads, as part of a programme of "decluttering".
(18) Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.
(19) QUOTE OF THE WEEK "All these brouhaha and controversies about the World Cup budget were concocted by wicked [journalists] who should have known better and who know the real truth but won't say it as it is.
(20) In the first of two exchanges, I spoke with Crabb on the record via instant messaging before the show went to air (and before all the subsequent brouhaha).
Kerfuffle
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Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(2) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
(3) 2.29pm GMT Bank of England plan leave economists feeling QEesy In the UK, there is something of a kerfuffle after the Bank of England announced that it will transfer tens of billions pounds accrued through its quantitative easing programme back to the UK Treasury.
(4) Through the window she gazes out at a great kerfuffle of cameras and lights as a One Show presenter is filmed abseiling off the roof.
(5) "This kerfuffle is an ad feminam attack from the boys and, of course, the odd girl, but mainly it's a boyzones attack.
(6) The Selftrade letters have caused a kerfuffle, particularly as most of the recipients aren't oligarchs and millionaires but ordinary small investors with perhaps a few thousand pounds in an Isa.
(7) As if to show that this stage is not merely a 100km+ warm-up to a frenetic sprint, a minor kerfuffle in the peloton results in two riders hitting the road.
(8) The committee has taken a quick turn round the course in the wake of the Mid Staffs hospital kerfuffle – and covers ground that colleague MPs have already trodden, for example in the health committee .
(9) Read more Meanwhile, Trump’s tweets have provided a daily source of jaw-dropping amusement for a global audience, a phenomenon that reached a peak with the kerfuffle over “covfefe”, the apparently mistyped word in an incomplete tweet that the president posted after midnight on Wednesday.
(10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
(11) He's in there, as you might imagine, kerfuffling around with some beverages, jugs and glasses all lined up on his boardroom table like a middle-management conference at the South Mimms Novotel.
(12) Pannun and Whittington’s alliance may cause a public kerfuffle in New York or Washington as they try to get the lawsuit papers served on Modi.
(13) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
(14) Marr's amusement turned to surprise when Morrissey joined in the kerfuffle, issuing a statement supporting his ex-bandmate 's tweet about Cameron.
(15) There was a minor kerfuffle a few weeks ago when the Daily Mail website overtook the New York Times to become the most popular news site in the world .
(16) Therefore, Kevin Rudd could win by a slim majority and all the leadership kerfuffle would end.
(17) As you may have noticed, there was a bit of a kerfuffle last week involving this newspaper, the House of Commons, the oil-trading company Trafigura , law firm Carter-Ruck, Private Eye, toxic waste, Twitter, and a mysterious alien entity known as a "super-injunction".
(18) 27 min: Sneijder cops a booking do, for his part in the kerfuffle that followed the high kick.
(19) When you look at Paris as an expression of global will, a final piece of evidence for business about where the world is heading, a turbo-charge for investment decisions that are already starting, then the whole kerfuffle about the 1.5C target also makes sense.
(20) This kerfuffle could have been avoided if the parties involved would have done more to control their imaginations".