Although its choice may irk British politicians, investor logic prevails.
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I did feel their phantom irk and it was calming.
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Did it irk you or were you flattered by that?
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POPULISTS often put their finger on problems that irk their countrymen.
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Army and police checkpoints fly Shi'ite flags that irk Sunni residents.
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Bequests to animals often irk the human relatives of the deceased.
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That didn't irk me or make me feel weird at all.
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And even as programming clichés irk, there are surprises to appreciate.
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Still, the idea of being impeached is said to irk Trump.
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But it's not exactly surprising, either, that Trump's attempting to irk Pelosi.
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It can irk conservative viewers, who may be uncomfortable with the message.
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The pharmaceutical industry's intransigence has begun to irk even staunch Republican allies.
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K irk : I made the best decision I could at the time.
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Similarly, rising prices now irk consumers but provide relief to the oil industry.
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Many here said they admired Mr. Cruz's willingness to irk the Republican establishment.
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Any shift away from EU rules at the WTO meeting would irk Brussels.
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Any perception that Muscat is allying with Riyadh may irk Tehran, analysts say.
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That would be the fourth raise of the year, and likely irk President Trump.
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He will have been reluctant to irk Xi given the precarious state of negotiations.
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It could irk you that one woman lets her boyfriend pay her rent (in Manhattan).
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Both the culture of nepotism in the White House and the president's tweeting irk him.
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Andre's chart, however, shows an inability to settle down and this might soon irk you.
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That being said, here are a few behaviors that are sure to irk Costco employees:
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And so we continue waking to a decapitated sun and trees continue to irk me.
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And, look, I'm not out here pretending that overtly gimmicky metal bands don't irk me.
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The fact that outside groups are going all in for Rosendale could irk the locals.
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Such solo action is unlikely to work, however, and will irk other major industrial nations.
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The baseless claim, which Obama's team denied, was said to irk and exasperate the former President.
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He compares her — this will irk her detractors — to Pope Francis, though not on religious grounds.
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Republicans have returned the biting words, sharply criticizing Mr. Schiff, whose frequent television appearances irk them.
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The Philippines has been careful not to irk China and has refrained from any celebratory words.
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Still, though he often portrays himself as a unifier, some people — or teams — do irk him.
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So it's all the small things that irk me and inspire me to explore other subjects' stories.
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This determination is likely to irk Cosby, who owns an estate near the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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That means fewer tax dollars for the nations these entrepreneurs reside in, which could irk local governments.
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It had to irk a fighter pilot to be trailing a scrubby little plane like my Cessna.
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Any perceived threat to the free movement of scientific ideas across national borders tends to irk academics.
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Mixing up Sweden and Switzerland has been publicized as a common irk for citizens of the countries.
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There are a few things that might irk Trump if he switched to to the S7, though.
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This card has helped fix some of the things that irk me most about flying these days.
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This seems to personally irk Mensch, who has occasionally suggested the Palmer Report is ripping her off.
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Scott and Sofia are used to a certain amount of press, but all the hubbub would irk me.
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Even more bizarrely, our Tweeter-in-Chief has recently demonstrated a penchant for blocking accounts that irk him.
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Such spending caps irk billionaire owners, but they have helped prevent the inflation of a transfer-fee bubble.
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Even lifting tax caps, which Veghte noted may be the most popular idea, would irk influential wealthy voters.
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In a new interview, Spears lays out exactly why the accusations irk her — and it totally makes sense.
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At home, however, the showy displays began to irk residents, as some felt that they masked larger shortcomings.
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But the assertion that Mr. Gladwell has a schtick — or even a brand — does seem to irk him.
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After complaints from Sanders in 2016, the DNC overhauled its superdelegate system, changes that still irk some Democrats.
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But the assertion that Mr. Gladwell has a schtick — or even a brand — does seem to irk him.
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He harried the New York tycoon all while wearing a broad smile, and at times seemed to irk Trump.
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Most family members irk each other from time to time, bumping into conflicts about politics, religion, and life choices.
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"He's weird," he said, asking aloud who Mr. Jones was — a question that appeared designed to irk Mr. Jones.
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While it may irk criminal justice progressives, going after drug dealers and repeat offenders isn't exactly unpopular in American politics.
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No matter how compatible you are with someone, you're bound to find minor annoyances that irk you in the relationship.
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Since you keep not letting me finish without discussing the flaws, are there flaws on this record that irk you?
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"We kept watching them win and get closer and it was amazing, I was so, so pregnant," says Stam-Irk.
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You probably knew it was going to irk people to see, say, Fall Out Boy as the epitome of punk.
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Parts of the budget that focus on less-profitable projects outside North Dakota and Guyana are likely to irk Elliott.
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Of all the many things that irk me about 220, brands on the internet are the worst — oh, the brands.
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Even so, with Republicans in control there, and loath to irk the president, the resolution is widely expected to die.
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Though she's hardly humorless, it seems to irk her just a little that she's not going ten-for-ten every time.
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These are icons which might irk the majority of Latvians who bitterly remember the decades-long Soviet occupation of their country.
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That and more blatant Amazon marketing—which may or may not irk you depending on how frequently you use Amazon services.
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And you want to make this happen in a way that doesn't irk someone with whom you have a good relationship.
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That might irk Blackbear, who is covered in tattoos and, throughout "Cybersex," both laments and dives in to fame's dark corners.
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K irk : In this case, the simulator has reproduced exactly what did, in fact, occur, so I don't understand your question.
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The tougher requirements are likely to irk some lower-tier campaigns who have already struggled to make it into earlier debates.
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That may irk some long-time users who paid once for the product and expected to continue receiving updates for it.
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For decades, airplanes and rockets have shared the skies in peace — but recently, satellite launches have started to irk the aviation industry.
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In addition, the plan could trigger a short-term increase in power rates that could irk household and industrial consumers, analysts said.
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"I think it'll become an annual father-son bonding trip for Wrigley and Brian to go to Cubs games," says Stam-Irk.
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This will irk her and she'll launch into a new rant about kids these days living their whole lives through their phones.
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Sixty-one percent of Republicans say current events irk them more today than a year ago, compared to 42 percent of Democrats.
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It requires a delicate dance — learning to read unpredictable tides of control and relaxation, and shutting down posts that would irk Beijing.
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TikTok is owned by a Chinese parent firm, ByteDance, and has been accused of censoring content that would irk the Chinese government.
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A beneficial trade with the Ottoman Turks will irk the Church Mines; favoring Venice over rival Milan will have its own repercussions.
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Qatar's ties to Iran, too, irk Saudi clerics and kings, particularly the joint and expanding development of South Pars, the world's largest gasfield.
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Such a scenario would almost certainly irk Japanese policymakers who want to curtail any yen strength to support the country's export-dependent economy.
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And while ride-sharing companies can irk adult passengers by cancelling or being late, when children are involved such behaviour can be disastrous.
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This could irk people, who may choose to spend less time on Instagram in future, just as they have done with Facebook itself.
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The rules begin to irk participants, who form splinter groups (the Confessional Records Society, the Perceptive Records Society) with competing ideologies of consumption.
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Yet as the letter showed, he had already managed to irk the entire school establishment, as well as the Republican majority in Congress.
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Any extension to the bridge loan deadline may irk the European Commission, which has already been looking into whether it constituted state aid.
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He said he and the other owners take a financier approach to managing the team, which can occasionally irk the basketball operations staff.
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Minutes before it came in on February 15, Stone realized that the book, which was already available through booksellers, could irk the judge.
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The attacks irk Democrats and independent critics, who note that past presidents have generally avoided public gloating about their victories after Election Day.
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Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, retorted that China had made "a big strategic mistake" and that its decision would irk both mainlanders and Taiwanese.
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That scope of debate is likely to irk President Donald Trump who is under pressure from Congress to win access to EU agriculture markets.
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What remains worth noting, however, is that even if they don't superficially have the desired effect, these perceived slights did irk the Egyptian regime.
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For example, someone would play the "Mexican Hat Dance" for Ozzie Guillen at-bats sometimes, and it would irk him, because he's from Venezuela.
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China's theft of intellectual property and unfair trade practices have started to irk the West and has drawn the attention of the Trump administration.
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But the changes also could start to irk high-margin first- and business-class customers and cause defections to competitors on lucrative longer routes.
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Though Gabbard serving in the Trump administration may irk establishment Democrats, the country and the Democratic Party will be much better off for it.
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This year Trump was more in the background, as not even the tariff spats seemed to particularly irk the free-trading crowd (again, optimism).
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K irk : If I may— F irst C ommissioner : We request that you kindly hold your comments until we have shown all the data.
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The tendency when reading a story of infighting in the White House is to assume that this sort of thing might irk the President.
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This week's missed payment will irk bondholders but may not be enough to force them to the table, says Stuart Culverhouse of Exotix, a brokerage.
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The company hasn't shared any development it has made with this, but because it's a tried and tested method, it is unlikely to irk Indians.
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The idea that those linked to Hacking Team can rebrand themselves under a new company may irk those pushing for accountability in the surveillance industry.
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Though these Snapchat clones might irk some critics and long-time Snap loyalists, visual communication is the future and Stories are the new News Feed.
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It may seem like it will be impossible to change President Trump's personal conduct and public habits that irk so many independent and moderate voters.
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Among the concerns: NATO might be caught up in another costly, Afghan-style deployment, irk some Arab countries or risk confrontation with Russia in Syria.
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However, this may be a delicate line to navigate: products that have too much personality can irk users and cause them to abandon the product entirely.
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Amid the Mexican government's crackdown on the stream of migrants, any comments or gestures he makes about their plight is likely to irk Mexico's political leadership.
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Miss America 2009 Katie Stam-Irk named her newborn son after the iconic Chicago baseball stadium when the Cubs won the World Series on November 2.
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Those pieces of the plan may irk some moderates already concerned about the estimates of health-care coverage losses under the original proposal to replace Obamacare.
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Meanwhile, the personal behaviors of some candidates can irk people watching at home, who may think "This is not how a president should behave," she said.
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If OneWeb does file for bankruptcy, it would be one of the first SoftBank-backed startups to do so – and possibly irk SoftBank in the process.
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Many things about A.A. irk, from the stilted 1930s syntax of its literature to its temperature-challenged (but no longer smoke-filled) church-basement meeting spaces.
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All three of his albums have come out as streaming-only projects and, by the time he got to Coloring Book, his ineligibility started to irk him.
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They are myriad examples of coders accessing other datasets but distributing them in such a way so as to irk the subjects of the data or others.
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Some of the richest natural resources in the world, it has more oil than Saudi Arabia, but this is another thing that liberals really irk me on.
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BP's growing deepwater investments irk some environmentalists, who say the company has fought paying what it owes to restore shorelines and communities damaged by its massive spill.
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Not only did the suggestion irk Republicans because of its implication of callousness, but Trump's suggestion would also put the bill at risk of violating Senate rules.
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What you do in the bedroom is likely to be the stuff of lore, but the removed air of Aquarius might irk Trina enough to move on.
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Why this matters: International tourism to the U.S. is calculated as an export, so this could increase our trade deficit, which will irk Trump, according to Quartz.
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The major change that may irk some potential buyers is the lack of case options for the non-LTE Series 22015, which is restricted to the aluminum model.
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Housing and fuel costs, creeping inflation through much of last year and an unpopular goods-and-services tax of 6% introduced since the last election all irk them.
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Some of them also suggest that Apple's plan would irk pay TV distributors like Comcast* and Charter, who are used to controlling TV navigation through their own guides.
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" Over the years, there was "a sense of shiftiness about Kalanick, a can't-quiet-put-your-finger-on-it untrustworthiness that would irk some who deal with him.
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So a plan that is intended to soften his image might irk some of his core supporters who see immigration as an animating issue in the 2020 election.
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Some of them also suggest that Apple's plan would irk pay TV distributors like Comcast* and Charter, which are used to controlling TV navigation through their own guides.
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The directive is likely to irk the intelligence community, which has long prized its ability to determine what information about its operations can be released to the public.
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If this is the tone of the Trump presidency, prudent businesses will make it their priority to curry favour with the president and avoid actions that might irk him.
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The surge in Iranian sales to Asia is certain to irk the kingdom, and a renewed battle for market share, between the two, is not out of the question.
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While the White House says that the president is committed to alliances, he appeared to irk NATO members by publicly reprimanding them for not meeting their defense spending targets.
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That highly developed sense of his own pure motives -- despite his admissions that he has worried about the size of his own ego -- is continuing to irk his critics.
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Washington (CNN)The US Navy sailed the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell near contested waters in the Sea of Japan Wednesday, an action that is bound to irk Russia.
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On Wednesday, the US Navy sailed the guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell near contested waters in the Sea of Japan Wednesday, an action that is bound to irk Russia.
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Merkel may have less scope to offer compromises that might irk hardliners in her own party or the CSU on issues such as how to strengthen the euro zone.
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But the rallying cries in Mr. Schulz's 25-minute address to the convention seemed destined to irk an American administration that is already demanding more from its NATO allies.
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Indeed, the grandiosity and highly political tone of the event will likely irk Republicans who argue that Obama opened political divides rather than healing them as he promised in 2008.
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Zim, the alien with plans of taking over Earth, realizes that his leaders from the planet Irk have no plans of coming to Earth to join him, ruining his confidence.
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Iran, which in recent years has hosted some Taliban leaders and armed other factions to irk America, might get involved to boost its own favoured insurgents in the frenzied jockeying.
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The defiant move to publicise Iran's missile programme seemed certain to irk the United States as it plans to dismantle nearly all sanctions on Iran under a breakthrough nuclear agreement.
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But there are also signs that his approach may irk younger Egyptians who remember the period after the 2011 uprising when state control of religious discourse ended for a time.
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Analysts have said Li, who will travel to Germany on Sunday ahead of a wider China-EU summit in Beijing, would avoid any issues that might irk western EU governments.
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If the review drags on, then talks would be put off until after German elections next fall as any discussion on restructuring debt will irk German voters, the sources said.
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Cutting the rate, taxing only profits made in America and ending deferral would encourage firms to bring money home—and greatly reduce the shenanigans that irk so many in Europe.
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Instead, the topics that irk Sarawakians include shabby road and power networks, land-grabbing loggers and the royalties which Petronas, the state oil firm, pays for access to its wells.
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By proposing that the Allies open a second front against Hitler—Stalin's fondest hope—Willkie managed to irk both Roosevelt and his own more-or-less fellow-Republicans back home.
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The comments are likely to irk China, which has lodged "stern representations" with Western countries that made remarks about Liu Xiaobo, and add fuel to its testy relationship with Australia.
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Its way of mulching pretty much everything it touches on will likely irk discerning viewers, but it's worth trying out for the sake of "getting" what everyone else is into.
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All that is likely to irk U.S. President Donald Trump, who has in the past complained that Vestager "hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met".
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The defiant move to publicize Iran's missile program seemed certain to irk the United States as it plans to dismantle nearly all sanctions on Iran under a breakthrough nuclear agreement.
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The result is a delicate balancing act to navigate trade disputes and political tensions between Beijing and Washington that could irk policymakers and regulators on both sides, hurting business and deals.
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This laptop was made by Apple, and some of its faults are Apple's own, like the "a" key that sticks or the TouchBar that forever finds new ways to irk me.
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"The payment of a management and performance fee more akin to a hedge fund may irk anyone initially attracted to the trust by the original charging structure," AJ Bell's Doran said.
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Venmo requests in general tend to irk me — even if I know I'm supposed to pay someone an amount, I'd rather have them text me or let me know to pay.
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Bolton is the most senior U.S. official in years to travel to Belarus and his trip may irk Moscow, which traditionally sees the former Soviet republic as its sphere of influence.
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Reporters say the press secretary does not want to be captured on video dodging tough questions, or committing a gaffe that could irk Mr. Trump, an avid viewer of the briefings.
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California's legislature, meanwhile, in December introduced a joint resolution calling for the elimination of the Electoral College, taking care to point out the popular-vote totals that so irk the president.
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Trump has said in the past that his financial affairs are outside the remit of Mueller's investigation suggesting this latest line of inquiry is likely to irk the president even further.
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A source with the European Commission, which is apparently keen to avoid issuing a deadline that could irk Walloon leaders, said the EU executive "understands that Belgium needs a bit of time".
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The fact that Johns's art is not swiftly reducible to easily consumable bits of meaning seems to irk people as well as lead to accusations of being cool, detached, aloof, and remote.
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A recent story in Scientific American managed to irk a whole bunch of these thinkers, so much that 33 of them (four of whom have Nobel prizes) signed a letter in response.
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That would always irk me when someone said, "You own this company, so you should ..." Yes I do, but I can't get paid based on my equity, which has not been liquid.
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The Trump administration has already slapped sanctions on Venezuelan officials for alleged corruption and rights abuses, so news Ortega has been providing information to Washington is likely to irk Maduro's unpopular government.
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And, yes, the folksiness will still irk some critics: The starting point for the book is a chat with a Bethesda parking attendant, with another attendant from Minnesota waiting near the end.
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Alas, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France (country of the year 2017) is blocking its candidacy for the EU, fearing that welcoming another Balkan state into the club would irk French voters.
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Meeting with Trump in his capacity as a journalist, Gove is only the latest right-wing figure to irk the British government by flaunting a relationship with the President-elect outside official channels.
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But offering Jeffress such a prominent pulpit is likely to irk religious minorities, particularly Muslims, many of whom were already angered by the President-elect's stoking of suspicions about Islam during the campaign.
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Last, and most substantively, Sanders and Trump are each populists of a certain kind, and have attained broad appeal in a way that seems to irk the establishment members of their respective parties.
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"[T]he first to be targeted are Muslims or Mexicans — after which they will probably come for Jews, gays, blacks and all the other apparent undesirables who irk Trump's angriest followers," Oppenheimer writes.
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The Department of Justice has sued to block that deal, and Fox has cited the lawsuit as a reason why a tie-up with a cable operator such as Comcast could irk regulators.
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Entries like SHH and STE and CRO show up fairly often in grids because they contain common letters, but as long as they also occasionally appear in real writing, they don't irk me.
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K irk : With all due respect— T hird C ommissioner : Excuse me, but I wish to follow up with further simulator-test data that pertains to events on the so-called mystery planet.
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But her remarks to The Post were more expansive than previous ones and are likely to irk some liberal rank-and-file members of Ms. Pelosi's party trying to build support for it.
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Experts I've spoken to largely agree that these tactics are flashy enough to draw media attention and could, if fully pursued over a long enough period of time, really irk the Republican majority.
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The one person it seemed to really irk is outspoken Toronto councillor Norm Kelly (or the person who runs his Twitter account), who called The Biebs a traitor for not supporting the Toronto boys.
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" She transited through Houston, a stop that will irk Beijing, which has urged Washington to prevent Tsai from landing in the U.S. to "refrain from sending any wrong signal to the Taiwanese independence forces.
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The trouble is that reducing Britain's bill means cuts to the overall budget, which would irk countries that do well from it, or extra payments from the wealthier governments to make up the shortfall.
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This may seem like the sort of things that could irk drivers – after all, when the Spotify partnership was first announced, some were concerned that letting passengers choose the music would dehumanize the driver.
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Watching the comments back about what some of the other guys said to him on that stage irk me to no end, and I don't believe anyone's sexual experience should be held against them.
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A new archive of Clinton-related documents would further irk a campaign still reeling from FBI Director James Comey's announcement on Friday that new emails related to the Clinton server probe had been discovered.
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"I remind you that a prime minister was held in Saudi Arabia for several weeks," he said, a comment that could irk Riyadh which, like Hariri, denied he was ever held against his will.
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Zelenskiy's comments to the Republican Trump, disclosed in the summary, will likely irk U.S. Democrats, risking the bipartisan U.S. support Kiev requires while irritating France and Germany whom Zelenskiy criticized in the same exchange.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Afghanistan's national unity government could continue beyond September, a step that could irk the opposition even as he attempts to avert a brewing political crisis.
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Trump has eased the way for talks to restart, Middle East experts say, by delaying a campaign promise to move the US embassy to disputed Jerusalem, a change that would irk Palestinians and other Arabs.
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In a move likely to irk Beijing, the U.S. Marines will train with personnel from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, some of which also have claims in the South China Sea.
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Hackers briefly took control of the website of Qatar's official news agency last summer, and posted a false account of a speech by the emir that appeared contrived to irk the Arab states and Washington.
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In a move likely to irk Beijing, the U.S. Marines will train with personnel from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, several nations that also have claims in the South China Sea.
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No president in modern times has kept up such a torrent of condemnation on the long list of people, events and issues that irk him, often on Twitter but also in frequent photo ops with journalists.
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You'd think that characterization might not irk your average Apple fanboy — another Merriam-Webster term — these days if not for the the company's rather peculiar product mishaps and design misfires over the last couple of years.
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Trump filled his speech with references designed to irk Democrats — a ban on abortions after 24 weeks, criticism of blue states New York and California, even noting that he was ready to nominate more conservative judges.
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In another move that will likely irk China, Harris said he thought there would be more U.S. freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea "soon," and sought to separate the issue from North Korea.
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And he is clearly determined that the internet in China be made dissent-free, even if his sweeping efforts to achieve this irk members of the middle class on which the Communist Party depends for support.
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Though Happening Now may appeal to newbies who don't want to create customized lists, track hashtags, or figure out who to follow to follow relevant news on Twitter, it's also likely to irk longtime Twitter users.
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Still, there's something about the exchange that seems to irk her (and you), partly because the movie is playing with the figure of the independent modern woman, one who seems capable of handling any reasonable challenge.
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Specifically, Mr. Kushner has cast a disapproving eye on the fund-raising apparatus run primarily by the Republican National Committee, and its chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, whose close relationship with Mr. Trump is said to irk him.
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The poll , conducted by the Bay Area Council, which describes itself as a business-sponsored, public policy advocacy organization, also found that homelessness and heavy traffic are among the things that most irk residents who live there.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran wants to increase its missiles' range, a senior military official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, a move that would irk the United States which views Tehran's weapons program as a regional security threat.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Thursday it regretted the arrest of the husband of a detained Iranian human rights lawyer, a rare criticism that is likely to irk Tehran at a time of strained relations.
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For municipal officials, one way around this is to annex commercial territory, such as shopping malls, ports (as in LA) or airports (Chicago), where there are few resident voters to irk and the tax returns are substantial.
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While the Corps doesn't have a permanent presence in Australia, a major US military construction project near Darwin is likely to irk China and complicate delicate efforts by Australian officials to balance its relationship with both heavyweights.
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While some members of Facebook's security team wanted greater scope to investigate such partisan US networks, Facebook's policy team is said to have discouraged an investigation of The Daily Wire on the grounds it could irk conservatives.
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That's because wireless alerts aren't able to handle multimedia, like photos, video or maps, and they're capped at 90 characters in length — limitations that irk officials who say much more data should be sent to the public.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will offer its first regular civilian cruises to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea by 2020, state media said on Wednesday, a move likely to irk other claimants to the disputed waters.
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But the subject seemed to especially irk the authoritarian leader on Monday when, at the end of a major summit meeting with European and Arab leaders, he lashed out at Europeans who dared to question his record.
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Outages irk New York mayor Eight days after the Manhattan blackout, more than 50,000 customers, mostly in Brooklyn, faced a second power outage due to high usage during a stifling heat wave, Con Ed said at the time.
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Putin's comments, made at his annual news conference, are likely to irk some British politicians who have suggested Russia may have meddled in the 2016 Brexit referendum because it wants to weaken the European Union and the West.
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There's a good chance that Wade's fondness for having and holding the ball will irk not just the obsessively controlling Rondo but also Jimmy Butler, the young superstar at the center of the Bulls' weird collection of talent.
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That would irk some in the euro zone who have to maintain similar surpluses to keep debt sustainable or who, like the Baltics or Slovakia, find it difficult to justify Greeks getting bigger pensions than their own citizens.
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But the DOJ's plan for receiving data from other countries would be to reverse the Microsoft decision entirely, which would irk tech companies that would continue to be stuck in legal limbo between the laws of multiple countries.
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There are a few variables that determine whether or not strong smells irk you: the anatomy of your nose, how congested you are, the overall quality of your "smell nerve," and the condition of your brain, Dr. Voigt says.
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The futuristic pair of kicks, modeled after the shoes worn by Sigourney Weaver in the 1986 sequel "Aliens," sold out in just 38 minutes online, but the blowout sale's technical difficulties managed to irk a lot of hopeful shoppers.
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But the DOJ's plan for receiving data from other countries would be to reverse the Microsoft decision entirely, which would irk tech companies that would continue to be stuck in legal limbo between the laws of multiple countries. Sens.
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That obstinacy will irk the Clinton campaign, which will have to expend some effort fending him off, even as the former secretary of State would much rather turn all her fire on Trump for the general election battle ahead.
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"There are certain women who seem to irk him and so he raises them in all sorts of settings as representative of the Democratic Party," said Kelly Dittmar, a professor at Rutgers University-Camden who studies gender in politics.
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The downgrade to the 24.2 year-on-year measure to below 22.9% may well irk a commander-in-chief who has been quick to blame the U.S. Federal Reserve in particular for actions he sees as stymieing his growth agenda.
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The president's decision to stage a summit with the Russian leader is sure to irk U.S. allies in Europe and members of Congress, who fear Trump is taking actions that could break apart the post-World War II international order.
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And while Mr. Wallace, dapper with his trademark pocket square, maintained a genteel presence, he also issued some sharply phrased questions that were sure to irk his skeptics, especially Clinton supporters already leery of a Fox News anchor taking the reins.
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Mr. Kaine's attempts to irk Mr. Pence emphasized how the Democratic ticket is determined to use the debates to inflict maximum damage on Mr. Trump by reminding voters of his divisive and even racist language and views over the years.
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This confusing move from survival thriller to sci-fi plague prevention simulator can irk the player—it's easy to feel that you've ended up playing two different games, and the second one is nowhere near as strong as the first.
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What seems to irk these pragmatists is not strictly that promises like Medicare for All are, in their minds, impossible to enact, but that they are popular enough to force these pragmatists to come clean about why they oppose them.
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Moscow's comments might irk war veterans in Britain where the 75th anniversary on Wednesday of the largest seaborne invasion in history was marked at a ceremony in Portsmouth attended by Queen Elizabeth and world leaders including Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.
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BRUSSELS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The European Union financial affairs commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said measures were needed to encourage banks to reduce their exposure to bonds issued by their home states, a remark that could irk EU countries with high debts.
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Her comments are likely to irk some members of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party whose insistence on a 'clean' break with the EU's customs union and single market have raised the prospect of new border controls on the island of Ireland.
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But the researcher also found that growth in the food truck industry is slowing — 20123% in 22012 through 21880 and now expected at 21900% through 2022 -- due to increased competition, low profit margins and the sorts of municipal regulations that irk Bruellman.
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Clinton: She supports teachers unions and has called for better pay for educators, but she did irk some at a National Education Association convention this summer when she expressed support for charter schools and called for an end to wars over education. Mrs.
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The message: Using unflattering images of Mr. Trump that are sure to irk the president, the ad declares that the "real state of the union" is a portrait of a broken country, rife with dysfunction, and lays the blame at the president's feet.
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What Really Happened: Two weeks ago, mere days after his impeachment trial ended in acquittal in the Senate, President Trump got involved with the sentencing of his former adviser Roger Stone, a move that seemed to irk William Barr, the US attorney general.
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Many chain restaurants have drink specials that run during a certain time each day or week — and one surefire way to irk bar staff and servers is to put in a last-minute request for multiple drinks just before happy hour ends.
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But in a move that is likely to irk Swedish prosecutors, whom Mr. Assange has denounced for forcing him to remain confined in the embassy for the past six years, the WikiLeaks founder on Wednesday released the answers he gave during the interview.
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Straying onto broader policy issues, as Mark Carney, of the Bank of England, has on climate change and Raghuram Rajan, of the Reserve Bank of India, did about religious tolerance, is likely to irk politicians and squander influence better saved for the bank's main tasks.
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Sunday's exercise, which was first reported by Fox News, comes days after the Trump administration made a number of moves that appeared to irk Beijing, including sanctions against Chinese entities doing business with North Korea and the approval of a new arms sale to Taiwan.
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Upper West Side Your neighbor's strategy for getting repairs done might irk you, but if he is reporting conditions in the apartment or the building that violate the law, he has a right to do so, even if the building would prefer that he keep quiet.
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Conor McGregor The Navada Commission did its best to irk the combat sports world in their aired hearing with Conor McGregor, who was present over the phone, following his part in the bottle-throwing fracas with Nate Diaz at their press conference ahead of UFC 202.
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Investors have been closely watching Cenovus' asset sales process as the ConocoPhillips deal attracted the irk of shareholders and eventually led to Cenovus' naming Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at TransCanada Corp, as its chief executive officer, replacing Brian Ferguson, who led the debt-fueled acquisition of ConocoPhillips assets.
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Read more: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's plan to keep Archie's godparents secret is the latest decision to irk royal followersThe duke and duchess kept the details surrounding his birth private, and they do not disclose standard information — such as the identity of his godparents — to the public.
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While we often talk about sidewalk rage as an internal irk, or "private mental venting that consists of irrational assumptions regarding other pedestrians," the feelings can escalate through fantasies of "violent acts against the inconsiderate sidewalk blockers" in some to "the overt expression of hostility and aggressiveness," James notes.
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"Vivir," a premiere set to a selection of Latin and Afro-Caribbean music by Darrell Grand Moultrie, is the kind of emphatically anti-musical dance-fest that would seriously irk me with lesser dancers — where the music has a legato flow, the choreography is punchily staccato, and vice versa.
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The litany of casualty and destruction statistics that follow the game (including a declaration of use of the white phosphorous as "evidence of war crimes") will likely irk those who see the Gaza wars as justified, but the fact is that civilian deaths in that 2014 summer were high.
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The short lead time will sure irk those who rushed out to pick up the three, but for hold outs, there are some really solid hardware upgrades on board, starting with the already announced bump from Snapdragon 13 to 821 (at 2.35GHz), bringing it up to speed with the Google Pixel.
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While the move will be more convenient for some — it's now a lot easier to check out a live stream and then go back to perusing your timeline — it will no doubt irk many users as it also means there will be a lot more autoplaying videos in your timeline.
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The White House is reportedly reluctant to move forward on an arms deal with Taiwan out of fear that it may irk Beijing — even though the deal was first proposed during the Obama years and would be in line with a long tradition of US arms sales to the island nation.
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The parallels between pioneer days and the present become more pointed, and the language Ms. Brunstetter uses in the 1840s scenes, which is neither period-appropriate nor playfully anachronistic, starts to irk, as do the sorrows of present-day Jane, who should have been packed off to a therapist years ago.
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Sure, Drake could clean it up and Febreze the hell out of it, but it's probably going to leave a phantom smell lying around, and at least irk you enough to think, "man, that dude really just took a shit in my studio" for the rest of the time you're recording.
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Pakistan's blasphemy laws dangle like the sword of Damocles over journalists who report on issues that can irk religious conservatives, the military or the powerful strongmen who regularly rob the country's coffers, any one of whom can orchestrate an accusation that can put an end to talk of those issues -- or to lives.
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Since assuming the presidency, Trump has used Twitter to go after a former president (Barack Obama is a "Bad (or sick) guy" on par with "Nixon/Watergate"), companies that irk him (Nordstrom was "very unfair" and "terrible" when it stopped carrying Ivanka Trump's wares) and the media (with the "failing" New York Times spreading "FAKE NEWS").
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On the software side, even the placement of the telcom signal, power bar and WiFi signal indicator is identical to the iPhone X. The high-end Mi 83 model also includes iOS-like Animojis and a facial unlock feature both of which were pioneered by Apple with the iPhone X. These similarities will inevitably irk Apple and design purists, but this isn't Xiaomi's first rodeo.
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While federal background checks are fairly standard for lots of other commercial activity, from becoming a nurse to driving a truck containing hazardous materials, the FAA requiring commercial drone operators to undergo background checks is notable in that the FAA is deferring judgement to the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security, which may irk pilots leery of the agency's vague and often-controversial policies.
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Read more: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's plan to keep Archie's godparents secret is the latest decision to irk royal followers"It's the tussle between their desire to control media access to parts of their family life, such as Archie's christening, and their public roles as part of the taxpayer-funded Royal Family that has fueled some of the criticism against the couple," Sky News royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills told the Express.
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Washington (CNN)In a move likely to irk Moscow, the Pentagon has released $200 million in security assistance to Ukraine just days after the Russian Ministry of Defense said it was ready to work with the US Department of Defense on a range of security issues following a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and amid concerns the US President had not been tough enough with his Russian counterpart at their meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
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Even if Trump eventually makes a version of the order stick, however, much about the rollout exemplifies the aspects of his administration that most irk critics — a willingness to announce dramatic policies without preparing the ground first, even with potential allies in Congress; the influence within the administration of polarizing figures such as White House aides Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, who espouse a very hard line on both immigration and Islam; and Trump's own tendency to react to any setback with vigorous counterpunches.
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