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If state legislatures had been permitted to wrangle over abortion, Americans would have been obliged to argue with each other like grown-ups about its moral import and practical effects.

In the aftermath of an epic disaster, you also have to wrangle with the complications of destroyed infrastructure, permitting bottlenecks, insurance disputes and scary levels of contamination.

The problems surfaced after the end of a contract wrangle with Stagecoach which saw it end almost all its services in Dumfries and Galloway.

The diplomatic wrangle escalated after Nepal published its own map which included those disputed areas.

In the 1980s, political icon Phillip Burton allegedly wrangled an infamous gerrymander that still shows just how bad things could be.