Adjective : quibbling debates.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a relationship marked by frequent quibblings.    From Dictionary.com. 

CHICAGO (AP) - No quibbling from the Chicago Blackhawks.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Even your claim about lobbying were actually true, your semantic quibbling is foolish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation] Reference

I think BluRay IS inherently better just based on the extra room, and all the other quibbling is silly. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [HD DVDs Fall Like Dominoes - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

And there’s no real point in quibbling over what gets someone working, because so long as it does, it’s ultimately useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not-so-required for writing «] Reference

This is straight forward social sciencenot "quibbling", as Dr. Ladner suggests in his response.    From Wordnik.com.  [A hard look at education research] Reference

There's no need to get caught up in the "quibbling" good word over conscription versus voluntary enlistment.    From Wordnik.com.  [stop quibbling and let them stay] Reference

Manuel said the world was now beyond "quibbling" and should be focussed on financing, and the implementation of international agreements.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Article: Russia 'quibbling' over UN I.Coast statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

But I have to ask why you are offended by the notion of quibbling over DFW’s direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is DFW Washed Up? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

"quibbling," etc.; yet the author cannot help admiring him extremely.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

'destroyed' … but it was precisely this kind of quibbling that got us here in the first place!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas] Reference

No te justifiques con malas razones (by quibbling).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference

All he has found so far is quibbling about procedures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Up Appearances Of Movement] Reference

There was a little quibbling about that, but very little.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2004] Reference

I think you'd see a lot of squabbling, a lot of quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2001] Reference

No one's quibbling that this is an incredible performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Entertainment World Gears up For Oscar Nominations - February 13, 2000] Reference

Should a man go to jail for quibbling over that definition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Rosty Could Beat The Rap] Reference

But "Captain Frederick" was provided against any quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

Thirdly, in order to deprive the Jews of ground for quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

But it's good enough to make quibbling seem like too much trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married to the Mob] Reference

Rather quibbling this; but temptation to accept invitation to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892] Reference

At the pausing places he generally indulges in Sternesque quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

I need only repeat, this is no time for personal gain and quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medal of Honor] Reference

This is no day for dilly-dallying and quibbling about 'State rights.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

This was no time for quibbling -- no time for nice shadings of propriety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

I think we're quibbling over some details I would hope could get resolved.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2004] Reference

Perhaps this may appear very like quibbling; perhaps it may be regarded as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

You know, but quibbling over the details, I think, misses the larger point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2002] Reference

But how can we stay babbling and quibbling here all this delicious afternoon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Master of His Fate] Reference

But the truth is, this movie so wiped me out I have little taste for quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witnessing The Inferno] Reference

Too often they allowed themselves to be drawn into quibbling over trivialities.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)] Reference

This fact was immediately denied, but it was merely a question of word quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Such pettish quibbling is utterly unworthy of your good sense and ordinary candor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

But lawyers 'quibbling about which way the rule cuts in this case is not the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

The rest, all the rest, is merely quibbling, manoeuvre and diversion, and bad theatre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Iran, Sakineh: Compliments of Lewis Carroll] Reference

The law was extremely plain and permitted of no guessing or legal quibbling over its terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference

The quality of reasoning employed in these instances has naturally led to theological quibbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistakes of Jesus] Reference

Scientists say years of quibbling, back and forth among local governments, killed floodgate plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference