They talked and wrangled a long time and could not agree.
Modesty is a highly subjective term, and selecting modest swimsuits for girls is a topic mothers and daughters have wrangled over for decades.
From sheer weariness and disgust the king refrained from any intervention in public affairs for nearly ten years, looking on indifferently while the ever shorter and stormier diets wrangled perpetually over questions of preferment and the best way of dealing with the extreme dissenters, to the utter neglect of public business.