PUNCTURES ALWAYS seem to strike at the most irksome times.
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One of his irksome habits: Eating with his mouth open.
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Trump's endorsement of Johnson must be especially irksome to May.
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The Sanders campaign finds suggestions he can't win particularly irksome.
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The spellings of some words were more irksome than others.
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But that's asking too much of the story's irksome, inconsistent characters.
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The Shining is, well a shining example of this irksome phenomenon.
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But he also said that the ditches could be especially irksome.
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The situation is irksome for her, she says, but also worrying.
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You are likely irked by this because self-centered people are irksome.
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Such misperceptions, irksome as they are to Mr Frey, are also telling.
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This wasted time and resources, while irksome, is ultimately short-term damage.
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The DoJ is both comprehensively Trumpified and deeply irksome to Mr Trump.
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Subjection to WTO rules might yet prove more irksome than Brexiteers realise.
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This policy has long been irksome to American industry heads and politicians.
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Moreover, if aspiring to global leadership may be irksome, forfeiting it carries costs.
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That's particularly irksome for Natalia, who probably also can't stand having a namesake.
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Another example: Trump finds Japan's trade practices and regulations to be very irksome.
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If the cliffhanger ending seems irksome, never fear, this one's a series opener.
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For every irksome poster, there are plenty more who actually want to help.
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Judd's observation comes back to mind: Does being irksome continue to be interesting?
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The characters are irksome at best, itchy and irritating at their one-note worst.
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The move is irksome to "woke," tuned-in critics: Lorde's Melodrama or Kendrick's DAMN.
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Which will be enough, for many, for its more irksome elements to be overlooked.
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The finale added insult to injury by doubling down on this irksome narrative trope.
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The chip card, despite its irksome reputation, is quickly becoming a system of choice.
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Both Mr. Buffett and Mr. Munger said regulation could be irksome, but was necessary.
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Correspondingly, cuts are irksome when they are made but bring benefits only in the future.
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For Indian policymakers this is an irksome reminder of the weakness of the country's manufacturers.
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Renault's abortive merger with FCA showed what an irksome meddler the French state has become.
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Some people have it all, but still crave luxury, novelty and access without irksome hurdles.
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One other note here: It is irksome that the only scenarios modeled are revenue-neutral.
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One one editorial he found particularly irksome, Jackson drew a big black X, the curator said.
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How irksome it would be for some if it delivered steady profits under Disney's full ownership.
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The ways in which the other two are irksome illuminate a good bit about English grammar.
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As the economy falters, discontent is rising, and the ruling circle's corruption is growing more irksome.
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The tourist tax may be irksome to those traveling to Venice for the biennale in May.
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It did look less irksome and deleterious to my mental health than what I use today.
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So that presents a particularly irksome version of a problem familiar to vaccine makers: the cold chain.
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As with the first Dishonored, it's irksome to see Dishonored 2's voice acting undercut this competence.
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In other words, many of us find some noises irksome, even if they are not universally abhorred.
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" What's irksome, Mr. Cameron added, "is that something can become part of the public record without substantiation.
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After all the hype and build-up, anything less than full disclosure would have clearly been irksome.
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But it feels particularly irksome in a game series so full of unabashed joy like Mario Kart.
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But the restrictions of Saudi life remain so irksome that covertly, silently, many women are finding ways out.
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Whatever the case, our baby seemed fine, and we resolved to turn the irksome air quality monitor off.
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Each insider stock sale, however irksome to investors, was done legally through what's called a 10b5-20153 plan.
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People are slowly coming back to appreciate Nickelback and then just turning their irksome ire towards Imagine Dragons.
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And sitting there helplessly, as I watch chuckleheads bump into my brand-new Bimmer, would be quite irksome.
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CreditCredit People can find visiting art galleries intimidating, mysterious or irksome, but it needn't be, even for beginners.
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"Fake it til you make it" might be the world's most irksome advice, but this time it worked.
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Now something is finally being done about it, with Google announcing a major clampdown on irksome video ads.
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Another particularly irksome change is the power button, which is now on the right-hand side of the computer.
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With that said, Amazon's habit of plastering its own content all over the main home screen can be irksome.
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It may be irksome, but it's also a handy reminder that convenience often comes at the cost of privacy.
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The IAB is urging them to make advertisements less irksome, so that consumers are less inclined to block them.
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Above all, the shortness of phrase through most of Mr. Schumacher's choreography becomes irksome, the breaks between phrases maddening.
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It was even more irksome because I had issues with how both of these individuals had done their jobs.
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The timing of the ban is particularly irksome for the industry, because it ought to be enjoying a golden period.
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He doesn't have a huge part to play in this final season, so shoe-horning him in would be irksome.
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It was a particularly irksome task to clean up gum in this store, which he says had Mexican floor tiles.
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Were that not irksome enough, the typically more discerning art world seems to have now fallen under the same spell.
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Now 102, Rosalee continues to be a lively woman to listen to, even as this film remains irksome to watch.
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For Reid, this T9 texting — that is, without a full keyboard — is the most irksome thing about the flip phone.
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There is even slight evidence to suggest that antiquity is becoming a selling point, rather than an irksome obstacle to development.
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Mr. Cuomo first saw it as irksome, and eventually disrespectful, as the mayor rallied the governor's union allies to his cause.
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Between all that, there's footage of a lightsaber battle featuring Darth Maul, the irksome Sith lords from the dubious Phantom Menace.
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Let your dog air dry — blow-drying cause the irksome skunk oils to get back in contact with your pup's skin.
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In the worst stories, like a truly irksome doubleheader about artisanal breweries, the characters resemble the "Portlandia" ensemble, minus the satire.
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At the Senate Republicans' weekly lunch Tuesday, Trump's tweets came up and some lawmakers were finding the situation irksome, participants said.
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And Tuesday was not the first time a first lady has leaned on her husband over a staffer she finds irksome.
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While some may find the spreading Hampton-ification of the Hudson Valley irksome, it has helped buoy the real estate market.
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By ceding the presidency, Mr. Nazarbayev also deftly stepped out of the firing line at a time of irksome civil unrest.
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These rules give the police an excuse to arrest irksome journalists and hand censors the authority to ban and seize offending material.
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Instead of an irksome sticking point with the press, the size of his inauguration crowds now seemed like a place of solace.
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I'm a fan of function restraint, and find it irksome when brands offer new features for the sake of offering new features.
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Luckily, it's 33 and there are a variety of ways to take back your shame and embarrassment by unsending that irksome message.
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"Nuclear power stations are in fact less sensitive but more symbolic since these flyovers are particularly irksome to the authorities," he said.
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Warren remains the only Democratic woman in the Senate who has not endorsed Clinton, an irksome fact to some in Clinton's orbit.
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Unprecedented for at least 40 years Many presidents have had frustrations with the legal system and criticized court rulings and irksome judges.
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How she got that way is never really explained, any more than the source of Kate's "irksome, brawling" nature is in Shakespeare.
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For me, the most irksome phenomenon I've been observing lately isn't that old-fashioned central-casting misogynist who says sexist, blatant stuff.
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It's not loud enough to be a serious disruption in a public place, but I found it more irksome than useful nonetheless.
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Foreign policy, with room for wide executive leeway, is an area presidents have long turned when domestic politics become irksome or difficult.
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Particularly irksome to the Vietnamese leadership has been China's conversion of contested reefs in the South China Sea into fortified military bases.
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Olivia McMaster, a practicing Wiccan who is active in the Instagram witch community, said she finds the idea of a "witchy aesthetic" irksome.
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That aspect of the settlement was particularly irksome to some critics, who disputed Remington's claim that the guns were too old to repair.
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There are things we like about it, but there will be a thousand things one finds irritating or irksome or unjust about it.
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The shortage of EpiPens is particularly irksome for Mylan as it tries to move on from controversy over the cost of the medicine.
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While there was a GoFundMe campaign to "euthanize Gritty," some fans have embraced his irksome appearance, array of dance moves and hectoring antics.
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Naturally, the kids hate each other, and naturally this defensive loathing rapidly gives way to something even more irksome for the grown-ups.
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It's especially irksome when Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Norway, and a few other countries have at least explored the idea of internet voting.
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She cited an irksome example: People so attached to their animals that they'd sacrifice the chance to live in a superior, no-pet building.
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It's never been a hinderance, per se, but sharing a name with the most famous wizard to never live can be irksome at times.
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This seems to have left lots of people craving for the experience of religious worship without any of the irksome beliefs associated with worship.
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At the same time, the French and the Germans have an irksome habit of cooking up reforms to the single-currency area between them.
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Traditional phylogenetic techniques have resolved about 95 percent of all evolutionary relationships, but an irksome five percent of cases remain unresolved, leading to controversies.
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Personally, while I find Apple's walled garden approach to be irksome overall, for some reason I give it a pass with the App Store.
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And more emphasis on greenery has meant a mass of environmental regulations on things like pesticide use and crop rotation that farmers find irksome.
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In May this year, Arizona Senator John McCain visited Australia and suggested its Navy join the freedom of navigation exercises China finds so irksome.
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It is irksome when others express a more primal earthy insistence of identity and self-reliance by pronouncing Nevada as they do in Nevada.
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Meanwhile, in South Africa there is a company called Q4U that takes care specifically of the irksome business of applying for a British passport.
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Over small talk in bars and at house parties, it felt both irksome and strange to admit: no, I didn't know how to surf.
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It's a well-made, deftly acted period drama, but one built on an irksome plotting philosophy: Why be direct when you can be cryptic?
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But there's something unshakably irksome about watching the final film in a trilogy that behaves as if the entire chapter before it never happened.
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An especially irksome issue will be dealing with China's billions of dollars' worth of government subsidies that are bestowed on its state-owned enterprises.
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Franken, who represents a state with many hunters and sportsmen, acknowledged that his position in favor of new gun strictures is irksome to some constituents.
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But here's the thing: Loud restaurants aren't just irksome — they're a public health threat, especially for the people who work at or regularly patronize them.
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You can, of course, eliminate them from your life completely if you find notifications about breathing, standing, and other aspects of your human form irksome.
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Mr Obama blithely wrote Russia off as an irksome regional power, nuclear-armed and prone to harassing its neighbours but doomed to decline into irrelevance.
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Unlike the irksome chargers you got used to in the past, the Power Lens Pad will make your charging experience much cooler and more manageable.
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The army, despite its professed commitment to democracy, quells criticism in even more radical ways, ordering irksome channels off the air and abducting nettlesome bloggers.
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But for those who firmly believe that TV shows about D.C. politics should remain in steady alignment with "Schoolhouse Rock," it's all a little irksome.
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Again, another thing fans didn't care much about, but these timeouts were so irksome that the GMs will send the recommendation to the competition committee.
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And it calls for the elimination of the alternative minimum and estate taxes, which are mostly irksome to very rich people and affect Trump personally.
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Maybe The Irishman's racial myopia would be less irksome to me if it weren't so par for the course of the director's oeuvre of late.
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"The Long Winter" portrays family members as alone in their house, while in fact they took in an irksome couple who begged them for shelter.
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Though America runs a large trade deficit with India, it is a twelfth the size of America's deficit with China, so less irksome to Mr Trump.
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Even if Dee Dee wasn't over protective, this incident is understandably irksome because to her eyes, this seeming stranger is borderline stalking her and her daughter.
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If this irksome irritation is ruining your summer runs and fun, here are some expert-approved tips to help you deal when the chafe is real.
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This feature is irksome for those of us who encounter people who ghost us or stand us up, but what if something more serious had happened?
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More irksome to fans than missing out on a VIP experience they already bought, they can't actually cancel their VIP purchase without foregoing the entire concert.
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Mercury retrograde is famous for creating communication issues, and those will be especially irksome for you when Mercury, the communication planet, reenters know-it-all Sagittarius.
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Weak investment figures are particularly irksome to economists in the Trump administration, who argued that the president's tax reform would encourage a boom in business spending.
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Moreover, and especially irksome to Baghdad, the vote included disputed territory outside the boundaries of the autonomous Kurdish region, including Kirkuk and the surrounding oil fields.
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The tech world, sitting behind a contented wall of dual-class shares and founder-worship, may find activist investors grubby and irksome, but they don't care.
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There's a young snub-nosed monkey that, at least in the irksome narrative imposed here, is feeling neglected because of the arrival of a baby sister.
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This irksome extra step is necessary, in part, because the Home Hub doesn't offer Zigbee or Z-Wave support, so some devices will require an independent hub.
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Until 2014, the relationship with Russia was politically irksome, but militarily stable, while the Russian submarine force remained parked, in many cases rusting away at the pier.
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Plenty of renowned artists have accumulated lesser catalogues of music than Sting's while committing worse sins than being found vaguely irksome by a segment of the public.
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As Gizmodo previously reported, this issue was particularly irksome in context of the fact that the iPad Pro's new enclosure was touted as revolutionary for its thinness.
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That said, I found Steyer particularly irksome: If you're going to buy your way onto the debate stage you may as well have something interesting to say.
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" Being a publicly-traded partnership has been "very irksome," Schwarzman said, as it disqualifies Blackstone from "being able to be owned by a huge number of potential buyers.
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Under Mr Mugabe, legions of ruling-party loyalists were hired as civil servants and endless irksome rules were written so they could demand bribes not to enforce them.
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But a new one that has popped up in recent years might be the most irksome of all due to its sheer perversity: fees for leaving bad reviews.
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Individual investors also demand greater insight into the inner workings of a hedge fund's strategy, which can be irksome for managers who are reluctant to share their ideas.
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You really feel transported with this technology and the tracking is the not-so-secret sauce that has just been so irksome to integrate into headsets until now.
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The one downside is that there seems to be a trash processing facility across the road, which can be slightly irksome when the wind blows the wrong way.
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The new Pixel Buds come in a rounder, egg-shaped case versus the flatter square case of its predecessor (which proved to be the source of many irksome problems).
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The latest example of this irksome trend comes from Chattanooga, Tennessee where Comcast will soon offer cable-based gigabit broadband service that still isn't the internet you really want.
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Art and intoxicants have always had a blurry relationship, yet writers seem to possess a lock on the most extreme and irksome form of self-aggrandizement on the subject.
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"Maron" may not delve that deeply — by Episode 2 of the new season, Marc is showing signs that he's the same irksome guy in rehab that he was before.
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In that episode, Cristin Milioti plays a single New Yorker whose relationship with her doorman (the wonderful Laurentiu Possa) becomes the unexpected and occasionally irksome cornerstone of her life.
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So perhaps the best way for an employer to ward off an irksome, expensive onslaught of individual arbitration proceedings is to block plaintiffs' lawyers positioned to bring the cases.
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The Trump press plane offers several advantages over commercial air travel: There's no check-in, and there are no luggage limit or irksome restrictions about seatbelts or cellphone use.
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For sure, everyone here is fun to watch, making it all the more irksome when, perhaps a half-hour before the end, the film runs short of things to say.
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I've personally not found particularly great kebab in England but should our inclement clime prove irksome I can heartily recommend Al Sediq, Al Qanawat in Damascus for a splendid shawarma.
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That provision of the deal is particularly irksome to critics, who say it is designed to convince owners not to submit their guns for repair, reducing the cost to Remington.
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It is particularly irksome to German officials as the possibility of extradition was discussed between senior officials from the two countries on the sidelines of a G20 summit last month.
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And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.
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But that could be particularly irksome for Trump, who is capable of drawing big crowds in normal circumstances and who appears to get charged up by the adulation they provide.
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After about a month, most of the teenagers had begun to find the monitors chiding and irksome, making them feel lazy if they did not manage 10,000 steps each day.
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" She implored the people to protect themselves against that irksome inner voice, festering top-of-mind after Election Day, that would wonder, "Ohhhhhh, if only I had done a little more.
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But even as the Clinton-Trump battle lines were coming into focus, Mr. Sanders announced from California that he was not prepared to stand down, a potentially irksome development for Mrs. Clinton.
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Though the practice is irksome and the people seem strange to many, Ashantison claims he isn't bothering anyone and often works to help the city that has, more or less, embraced him.
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But any foreign presence in the South China Sea is irksome to Beijing, which claims a massive section of the resource-rich area that extends roughly 1,000 miles from its southern shores.
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Also, if you&aposre the type of professional who is admittedly particular about how they&aposre contacted, make sure to make that known, so you can avoid any uncomfortable or irksome exchanges.
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For artists Andrea Haenggi, Ellie Irons, Christopher Kennedy, and Catherine Grau, weeds—typically seen as undesirable and even irksome—can provide alternative models for thinking about survival and persistence in the Trump era.
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Brave is trying to subvert the dominant online-advertising model: it blocks intrusive advertisements such as self-starting videos, replaces them with less irksome ones and shares the revenues with publishers and users.
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It was irksome to Bella that Adrian had created romances for his characters and himself in the places he had the remotest reason to claim—Jiangyin, Wulian, Marseille, Ypres, Beaulencourt, Montreal, New York.
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It's meant as a twist ending — and I'm grateful to the show for ending the endless speculation about who or what the Witness is, which quickly grew irksome over the first two seasons.
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The symbiosis between these two always has defined the Thunder, and their mutual pact to keep playing in such a beautifully arrogant fashion is what has made this team so simultaneously irksome and intoxicating.
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That may seem odd or irksome to those who want to prune our friend or follower lists with impunity and without the fear of hearing that someone they cut from their rolls is offended.
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Yet, to any sensible woman, Jake is a terrible bet, directionless and shady — we've already seen him try to wheedle drinks from strange women — and the movie's refusal to call him out is irksome.
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Logging into news services is a colossal pain in the backside, and if you're buying something other than on Amazon, you probably have to re-login, which is irksome and slow and generally annoying.
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Autofocus was instantaneous, continuous shooting was only mildly irksome when it came time to process shots, and the LCD touchscreen allowed for touch focus and touch shutter functionality (but that's about it, a real disappointment).
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That makes Live Titles a neat solution to an ironic—and increasingly irksome—problem: The more people use video to communicate, the more they need text to tell them just what those videos are saying.
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The 1000X M3s automatically switch themselves off after five minutes of inactivity, which is cool for energy preservation, but a bit irksome if you just want to use their noise canceling without playing any sound.
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There are also many who prefer not to advertise their membership because they do not want to be held to the party's notionally high moral standards and its irksome principles of thrift and self-sacrifice.
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It is irksome that Putin was handed a convenient fig leaf for his efforts to silence opposition—but he knew full well how to suppress freedom of speech long before Germany regulated Facebook and Twitter.
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Yet despite their unsuitability for cultivation or even mining, the fact that they ended up in federal hands is irksome to those who believe that federal land ownership is prohibiting local folks from generating wealth.
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Photo: GettyWhen you're having a picnic, the last thing you want is ants, and when you're a billionaire venture capitalist, it's equally irksome to have plebeians accessing the beach next to your 89 acres of land.
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That's why, as an Army spouse, on Independence Day and with all the self-sufficiency it extolls, I can't help but be reminded of my own irksome designation within the military: I am my husband's dependent.
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Getting your period usually isn't just a matter of bleeding out of your vagina; it often comes with a bonus pack of other irksome symptoms that change the way your body feels and how you act.
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The story sometimes seems as if it's being deliberately cryptic, which grows irksome after a while; Mr. Rains, Ms. Leo and Mr. Franco are all so interesting that you wish they had more to bite into.
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Probably the richest life cycle of any meme on this list, "Thanks, Obama" started as a sarcastic mockery of right-wingers who sought to blame all their woes on the Obama administration, even irksome everyday frustrations.
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But I've also found it pretty easy to give up driving in a city, and now that I know exactly how bad air travel is, I'll feel an irksome pang of guilt every time I purchase tickets.
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Given that such thefts are typically discovered exactly when the bike is needed, the crime is an urgently irksome one—and one which plays a significant part in stopping people from cycling, or giving the pastime up.
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It's an increasingly irksome strategy to Obama's former aides, who must look on as the President trashes their former boss and his achievements, including the Affordable Care Act, climate change and diplomatic thaws with Cuba and Iran.
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All gone would be the persistent detractors (Saccattack!), the shareholder activists (who are gathering even now for a new attack), the irksome media (I blame myself) and all the leaky board members, employees, ex-employees and sundry players.
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And while the director, Charlotte Moore, is skilled (her "Molly Sweeney" from 2011 remains etched in my mind), no overriding guidance seems to steer the actors, who work in disparate and wavering accents that, taken together, prove irksome.
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The position of First Lady, when it comes to spouses, is an unpaid gig, which is pretty irksome given that first ladies like Michelle Obama and Laura Bush led very active campaigns against childhood obesity and illiteracy, respectively.
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What's far more irksome is Claire's willingness to toss aside the entire bill — one she feels passionately about, if her teary robocall pleas are to be believed — in order to placate the N.R.A. and make Austin go away.
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And this production, with its often-bemoaned flaws (the design) and irksome elements (the jester), is pushed off balance by the ingenuity of Mr. Martins's choreography, which displays the company's adroitness at the expense of the central drama.
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But in 2016, the Guardian found that most Japanese women didn't take their allotted leave — either out of fear of revealing their personal health information to colleagues, or out of concern that their male cohorts would find it irksome.
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That could allow Clinton to build up a lead in delegates before the race heads to Northern and Midwestern states where the Sanders message of an economy rigged against American workers could provide her with a more irksome challenge.
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Romanticizing Bush's supposedly charming moments is more than irksome ahistorical blather: It illustrates that in the Trump era, there's no figure so noxious they can't be turned into a Resistance hero and a symbol of a more civil era.
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Those low numbers are doubly irksome to the major broadcast networks, which are -- with the exception of NBC, which amassed numerous awards during the weekend's Creative Arts Emmys ceremonies -- essentially being left out of a party that they host.
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With a story to tell, Richardson the writer of instructional material was distracted, but when the conflict is resolved, about halfway through, we enter a narrative dead zone in which the author's more irksome qualities come to the fore.
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This fact is particularly irksome to ranchers like the Hammonds and the Bundys, who need lots of open space to graze livestock, and tend to take issue with the federal government using the land for things like, say, wildlife protection.
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Back then, vibrations could quickly get irksome; if, like me, you were not particularly good at videogames as a child and routinely bumped into things, the near-constant shuddering would viciously shake the controller until your hands started to go numb.
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And while the second season's second episode "Reunion" may have finally started answering some of the bigger questions surrounding the park, it also may have finally fixed one of the show's more irksome aspects (for me, anyway): the dinosaur problem.
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He tries to defend Winogrand against criticism stemming from the photographer's 1975 book "Women Are Beautiful," conceding that "plenty of people have found this title, this claim, irksome" — especially since it was published during the throes of second-wave feminist protest.
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But it was pretty irksome the other day when my wife had to drive out of her way to go to the rich-people grocery store in search of toilet paper because our normal-people grocery store didn't have any left.
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Handke's work represents so well the right side of the political divide in Europe, the one that seeks to revitalize an imagined past and perceives the present as a moment of victimization by encroaching others, women, minorities and particularly the irksome migrants.
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The repricing of public SaaS companies is especially irksome for the paired worlds of startups and venture capital, as each have made large bets on the business category, partially in light of a historic appreciation in the value of public software companies.
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If they found her celebrity irksome, they also understood that it was produced by a machine not of her making, a loud and foul-smelling apparatus that will screech on about almost anything before it listens to what the activists are actually saying.
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To some extent it can teach you to appreciate the irksome chaos and noise that led to the original yearning for silence—to realise that just as there can be inner tumult in silence, so there can be tranquillity in the thrum of activity.
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Unless you are already familiar with, say, Ralph DiGia, who became an important figure in the pacifist group the War Resisters League later in life, it's a bit irksome to have him quickly introduced as a young Bronx man pondering the draft, then shelved.
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And as part of that, you flowed through all your income, but the people who receive it get something called a K1 statement, for taxes, which is very irksome and it disqualifies us as being able to be owned by a huge number of potential buyers.
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Mr Xi appears to have little time for the politically irksome business of making the party follow the law, closing down loss-making state-owned firms, or bringing about much-needed social changes, such as scrapping restrictions on access by rural migrants to urban public services.
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This would invite the same irksome situation in which a few states' demographic peculiarities govern the destiny of the country, but either of these models would free us from the enforced monolithic importance of Iowa and New Hampshire—two states that ended up being first by happenstance.
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With each improvement — whether it is the zapping of irksome ads or the restructuring of how mobile sites work — Google is continuing to consolidate its power over the web, which has lost its centrality in the modern internet ecosystem to platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat.
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Same with Hillary Clinton and pretty much everyone else in D.C. All gone would be the persistent detractors (Saccattack!), the shareholder activists (who are gathering even now for a new attack), the irksome media (I blame myself) and all the leaky board members, employees, ex-employees and sundry players.
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First of all, the company gave us a pre-production unit to review, which from a reviewer's standpoint is irksome because it puts us in the position of attempting to evaluate an unfinished version of a product that may not resemble what ultimately ends up in the hands of consumers.
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It's striking to realize how much less irksome Maud's inaccessibility would seem were she a man; akin to the moment when you look at male models posing and marvel at their absurdity, only to realize that this must perforce extend to female models, too, although you've long taken their behavior for granted.
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But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle — whose many features include falcon-wing doors, a 200-plus-mile battery range and proximity sensors that prevent it from coming into contact with other cars — are being confronted with more immediately irksome issues, including car doors that suddenly won't shut and windows that won't close.
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Despite the occasional flatness of MacNicol's prose, and some irksome references to her glitzy life, I found myself underlining sentences, and then entire passages, that resonated with me, articulating the extreme inadequacy and sense of dislocation single women of a certain age, like MacNicol — and like me — experience in moments when others are growing closer without you.
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But my hands were insufficiently steady, and the tattoo artist my friends and I had chosen at 11:50 PM on St. Mark's Place was insensitive to feminine aesthetics, so that the letters ended up too bold, the message irksome; and now, whenever I look at my hands, I make a mental note to write "tattoo removal" on my to-do list.
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Likewise the WTO, NATO, the COP climate talks, the IMF, the World Bank, nuclear test ban treaties and accords on energy, water, maritime law and air traffic all require Britain to tolerate the sort of trade-offs that Eurosceptic souverainistes find distasteful: influence in exchange for irksome standardisation, laws and rules set mostly by foreigners not elected by Britons (regulations that Britain would not apply, or would apply differently, if left to its own devices).
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He "killed" two other pipeline projects, Northern Gateway (across British Columbia) and Energy East (which would have gone through Quebec), Mr Kenney notes, and "surrendered" to Mr Obama's veto of a third, Keystone XL. Just as irksome are two environmental bills backed by the federal government—one overhauling the process for approving big infrastructure projects, the other a ban on coastal tanker traffic—which look to many Albertans like part of the broader conspiracy to keep the province's oil sands poorly connected.
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What's particularly irksome to me about the lead-up to this event is not its inevitability (was there any doubt this particular train was going to be barreling down on these well-worn tracks?) or its obvious building tension (fraught public face-offs are nothing new since, well, since forever) or even the likely kabuki-drama ending in which it is more noise than impact (do we imagine this appearance will solve all that is so very broken with the social media company that this boy genius has built).
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That remark about infamy, and others about mistreatment, prompted this response from a textile mill operative named Harriet in Lowell, Massachusetts: We are under restraints, but they are voluntarily assumed; and we are at liberty to withdraw from them, whenever they become galling or irksome … we are [here] to get money, as much of it and as fast as we can ... It is these wages which, in spite of toil, restraint, discomfort, and prejudice, have drawn so many … girls to … factories … one of the most lucrative female employments should [not] be rejected because it is toilsome, or because some people are prejudiced against it.
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