But snobbery — class's meddlesome twin — is a lingua franca.
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They certainly haven't been meddlesome, but I think that's personality.
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Outsiders are, in these circumstances, indeed likely to be regarded as meddlesome.
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While many of her Marines made changes, others perceived Germano as meddlesome.
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Trump-cheerleaders like Mr Carlson despise him for owning the meddlesome Washington Post.
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The Tidelanders are an exclusive group, and they don't like humans being meddlesome.
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Mr. Trump has railed against it, arguing that it is unnecessary and meddlesome.
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He would not have to deal with recalcitrant legislators or, worse, meddlesome investigators.
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Four royal knights immediately rushed off to Canterbury and murdered the meddlesome priest.
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This is not some sturdy heartland tradition with which meddlesome elites want to interfere.
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But the Spears have been more helpful than meddlesome when it comes to raising Mabel.
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If the companies thought that would rid them of their meddlesome investors, they were mistaken.
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You can't hire a billion of them, and they prove meddlesome in ways that algorithms don't.
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It rings in my ear as, well, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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Many viewed Mueller as the anti-Trump who would finally rid them of this meddlesome president.
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But for meddlesome reasons, some Albany pols want to overrule the City Council, citing dubious principle.
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Uber favored the legislation because it preempts regulation by meddlesome local governments in cities like Cleveland.
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Thus a marriage born of a money grab and a meddlesome owner died of battle fatigue.
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Becket died not because he was "meddlesome," but because, in the king's view, he was disloyal.
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And with those meddlesome founders out of the way, users should worry about a Facebook-ified Insta.
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There's no evidence that Henry specifically said "meddlesome priest" (or "turbulent priest," which is also commonly quoted).
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It kind of rings in my ears as, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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Meddlesome rivals who cannot compete on a level playing field take cheap shots by destabilizing weaker countries.
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SINCE the 1960s, whenever Turkey's meddlesome generals have seized power, Turks have accused America of being responsible.
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Did she see me as a fellow mother expressing concern, or as a meddlesome person butting in?
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It rings in my ears as kind of 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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And as it turns out, the ever-meddlesome constellations have quite a bit to do with that.
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On this view, the EU isn't just too meddlesome, it's also undemocratic and unaccountable to the public.
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Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh criticized Hook over the meeting for what he said was his "meddlesome approach".
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Luckey insists he's just the group's money man—a wealthy booster who thought the meddlesome idea was funny.
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The U.K. has long had a fractious relationship with the rest of E.U., claiming it is overly meddlesome.
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In interviews she suppressed it with steeliness, just as she guarded her words and herself from meddlesome intrusion.
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In particular, esteem for the monarchy has made it easier for Thailand's meddlesome army to excuse its frequent coups.
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Many things in this life work better without the sun's meddlesome attention, and this process is one of them.
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" Comey says, "Yes, yes, it rings in my ears as, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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" He later elaborated: "It rings in my ear as, well, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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Trump's recent pull-out from the Iran nuclear agreement echoed Netanyahu's meddlesome campaign against it during Barack Obama's presidency.
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"It kind of rings in my ears as, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest,' " he said.
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Kim said South Korea should not "pose as a meddlesome 'mediator' and 'facilitator'" between the North and the United States.
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The pure earth mother of the Zodiac has been painted as a meddlesome, nit-picky prude for far too long.
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The day was sort-of-not-really saved when meddlesome Mary suggested they borrow one of Cora's embroidered evening coats.
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All three ladies sided with Romano's Emmy winner — which just so happens to be a sitcom about meddlesome family members!
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But for a team that has often been subject to the whims of its meddlesome owner — sound familiar, Knicks fans?
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"Afghanistan has tense relations with all its neighbors, some of whom they consider meddlesome," BU's "Bostonia" blog quoted Trevithick as saying.
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The microbes are meddlesome when they cause bad breath but can be deadly if they're breathed into the lungs, or aspirated.
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Smart Reply suggests short responses to emails, while Smart Compose is more meddlesome, actively suggesting how to finish your next sentence.
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Over the years, some Viacom executives described Ms. Redstone as meddlesome and impatient in a quest for power, questioning her business acumen.
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Apparently, Khosrowshahi was not just talking about Kalanick though — sources said the slide also referred to the very meddlesome board of Uber.
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After independence in 1947, India established a parliamentary democracy and a deeply meddlesome government to spread the wealth to its impoverished masses.
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Whether their grievances involve fish, immigrants or meddlesome rules, many Britons resent what they view as interference by European institutions and bureaucrats.
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Many suspect that the group, which seems to have petrol, weapons and ammunition in abundance, is backed by one of Congo's meddlesome neighbours.
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France has historically been less meddlesome at Peugeot than Renault, where in 2015 it executed an overnight raid to secure double voting rights.
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And, if the Starz series succeeds in nothing else, Howards End gives us the delightful, neurotic, meddlesome wonder that is Alex Lawther's Tibby.
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The Autumn Statement contained just 18 new tax measures, roughly half the number that his meddlesome predecessor, George Osborne, was accustomed to making.
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Band lashed out at Clinton as a meddlesome "spoiled brat" in an email to Podesta, while acknowledging the unique nature of his position.
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He's accused of being meddlesome and heavy-handed with discipline, sidelining some of the game's top stars and affecting the quality of play.
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No, insist most conservatives, it's a narrative of individuals striving for liberty, who got stymied, at times, by meddlesome progressives and riotous radicals.
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Iran is hardly a beacon of human rights and is definitely meddlesome in the region, but compared with Saudi Arabia it's a Jeffersonian democracy.
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It's easy to blame Trump as a particularly meddlesome actor in all this, but it's about a lot more than the specific personalities involved.
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It depicted the Uber co-founder as a meddlesome conniver who was looking out for himself first and the company he built not at all.
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"We intend to use the funds in whatever way possible to make meddlesome congressional representatives, especially Chaffetz, keep their hands off of DC," Craig said.
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But the response from the Trump administration has not been to ditch Mr Zinke, but to instead try and dispatch with the meddlesome inspector-general.
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Whether their grievances involve fish, immigrants or meddlesome rules, many Britons resent what they view as interference by European institutions and bureaucrats based in Brussels.
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While everyone in Europe loves to bash meddlesome bureaucrats in Brussels, there doesn't seem to be much appetite for following Britain out of the union.
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In 1170, December 29, Henry II said, "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and then, the next day, he was killed — Thomas Becket.
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Following the healthcare debacle and six months of losing, Republicans would be smart to move forward apart from the White House and its meddlesome tenant.
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Jeffrey Loria, the meddlesome and controversial owner who once sued his own fans, is reportedly going to get $1.6 billion for the team, according to Forbes.
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Some critics lambasted Nancy Reagan as a meddlesome "dragon lady," derided her anti-drug campaign and ridiculed her for consulting an astrologer to schedule presidential events.
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That might explain his readiness to question its free-movement rules—he frets about so-called benefit tourism—and to jab at a meddlesome Brussels bureaucracy.
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Offering frequent public comments about a new president's actions can be seen as overly meddlesome and a hindrance to a new White House's ability to function.
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He has obsessed over everything from the perfect backpack to the even tightness of his sneakers, among other seemingly benign behaviors—and a few more meddlesome.
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Instead of meddlesome bureaucrats, these are high-profile writers, serious people, who are raising a new alarm about the dire social and health ramifications of legalization.
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"The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemned the meddlesome remarks made by Nikki Haley and other US officials concerning the riots in the country," it said.
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Some critics lambasted Nancy Reagan as a meddlesome "dragon lady," derided her anti-drug campaign, and ridiculed her for consulting an astrologer to schedule presidential events.
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The film also sees the return of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, and of course, fan-favorite Tom Hiddleston as the meddlesome trickster Loki.
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Three years ago, Jackson seemed like he could have been one of the few people capable of keeping Dolan's meddlesome, kazoo-clutching fingers away from the Knicks' tiller.
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Hell, a New Yorker might even walk up and thank him for ridding the Knicks of their meddlesome Zen priest, rather than getting right up in his grill.
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Frequently on the list of least-admired jobs, openly loathed by both politicians and the electorate, and portrayed as meddlesome bumblers, it's hard out there for ink-stained wretches.
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Under pressure from her pathologically meddlesome brother-in-law, she once more cycled through her reasons: Henry lacks money, he lacks position, they're not right for each other, etc.
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In 2015, when the Guardian won a ten-year battle to release two batches of the meddlesome "black spider memos," under Britain's Freedom of Information Act, he was unabashed.
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The pre-signing Sabrina could be meddlesome and grating, constantly making situations worse by trying to tackle problems that were hardly any of her business in the first place.
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Word of the Day : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner _________ The word meddlesome has appeared in 16 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Sept.
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Neither Ms. Thomas-Greenfield nor Mr. Downie believed the United Nations would vote to impose an arms embargo, since Russia and China tend to oppose such efforts as meddlesome.
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Others pointed fingers at Pakistan's meddlesome military, which may benefit from Khan, a Pashtun Prime Minister, if elected, who could quell any residual Taliban rebellions and orchestrate post-conflict peace.
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A senior figure who would command the respect not only of those involved but also the leaders of Afghanistan's meddlesome neighbors — who will need to be consulted — would be ideal.
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Like many urbanists, Mr West admires Jane Jacobs, who believed that cities such as her beloved New York should be left to evolve naturally rather than being tweaked by meddlesome planners.
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Keith Loveard, a political-risk consultant in Jakarta, thinks that Mr Wiranto's appointment may be a "wily" balancing act aimed at setting meddlesome former generals in the cabinet against one another.
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This compromise was designed to appease both free-marketeers (who nonetheless saw it as meddlesome) and interventionists (who still complained that Mrs May had let ARM slip out of British hands).
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For more than a year, Mr. Rosenstein walked a political tightrope, guarding Mr. Mueller's independence on the one hand while trying to appease Mr. Trump's increasingly meddlesome demands on the other.
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The shambles created by failing to anticipate the Saudi perception and reaction to a Canadian tweet for the immediate release of jailed activists is a good example ("Meddlesome maple leaves", August 11th).
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Her workplace landscape, much like that of her peers Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope, is a collage of obtuse obstacles, like her sexist-yet-dashing boss and her meddlesome mother (Andrea Martin).
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It is worthwhile recalling that despite almost four decades of U.S. sanctions against Tehran, the Iranian government has yet to alter its ideological course or change its meddlesome behavior in the region.
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Yes, the regime in Tehran is oppressive at home and meddlesome in its near abroad, but it is ultimately a weak state surrounded by enemies and ferociously outmatched by the United States.
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"Yes, I think I immediately notice when a mother is too meddlesome on screen, and I feel uncomfortable because it holds a mirror up to me, in a way," my mother says.
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Benchmark's lawsuit has sharply divided Silicon Valley, with some arguing that the extraordinary action was necessary to rein in a meddlesome former CEO, while others cast Benchmark partners as overly greedy investors.
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And sometimes, historically, it's been priests who play this social role: Just look at "meddlesome priest" Thomas Becket, whose conflict with Henry II over the role of the church led to his murder.
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It has become newly fashionable in some rich countries, among both left-wing thinkers (who like its redistributive aspects) and their right-wing foes (who think it results in a less meddlesome state).
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Even if the straw ban doesn't affect you, even if you're getting all your fluids intravenously, this is a dry run of a new technique to introduce more meddlesome policies of greater consequence.
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You set the intensity of a training session and determine managerial philosophies, such as the tone and the language you want to use when suggesting that a mercurial superstar fire his meddlesome agent.
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Sometimes, it's the meddlesome party who is exorcised, but more often than not, the reasonable roommate is the one who leaves, sacrificing his space, and sometimes his security deposit, to salvage his sanity.
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That includes how meddlesome ousted CEO Travis Kalanick will be — he is an influential shareholder and also on its board — and also concerns that not all problems at the company have been disclosed.
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The self-serving principles set out by ITI can be seen as pre-emptive attack to delay the inevitable, and to protect its clients from what it sees as meddlesome and potentially costly intrusions.
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The office has long been a source of meddlesome leaks, in part because of the intermixing of F.B.I. agents and New York Police Department officers who have close relationships with the city's press corps.
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Trump's best path to ridding himself of the meddlesome FBI director and slowly reining in the investigation might come instead from removing Rosenstein or Sessions and appointing a new deputy attorney general or attorney general.
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In the upcoming movie, Bryce Wayne wages a personal war against Superman over the destruction of Metropolis – a vendetta further exacerbated by notoriously meddlesome Lex Luthor – a little more exciting than an Arkansas farmer's plight.
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Business leaders and economists have complained about meddlesome officials, heavy and capricious tax burdens, restrictions on investment and banks that prefer to channel loans to big state companies that enjoy the patronage of party leaders.
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But it is unclear how anyone with zero experience in diplomatic or government service, like Tillerson, can implement the correct changes, especially if the ever-meddlesome Trump refuses to let him name his key assistants.
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The supposition seems to be that the two queens would have been natural allies — and England and Scotland might have settled their differences — if it weren't for all the meddlesome men in their doublets and beards.
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It is not clear if he will be a relatively hands-off owner, like Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post, or if he will be more meddlesome, like Sheldon Adelson at The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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This most recent incarnation of this — of turning pabulum into wisdom by placing it in the mouth of a 10-year-old — has suddenly jumped from social media into the real world of meddlesome left-wing policies.
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Britons' vote last week to exit the European Union was not simply about their idiosyncratic distaste for all things European — an aversion shared by Thatcher, who saw Brussels as the kind of meddlesome big government she loathed.
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Republicans generally do support a less meddlesome regulatory approach, but when they're in power they tend to be much more persistent about cutting taxes and social welfare spending than they are about reducing economically harmful regulatory frictions.
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At the one-day owners' meetings here on Wednesday, Jones and several of his allies continued to quietly complain about the deal, Goodell's leadership and a league office they believe is filled with too many meddlesome executives.
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The big picture: Social media platforms, which host the greatest volume of misinformation, have gotten wise to basic techniques used in previous elections, and now regularly take down swaths of accounts they say are fake or meddlesome.
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As in the novel, the movie opens just as her longtime companion, Miss Taylor (the invaluable Gemma Whelan), marries, leaving Emma alone and prey to her worst, most meddlesome habits, particularly when it comes to other people.
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Before talks began in 2005 Mr Erdogan used the popular prospect of accession to anchor domestic reforms, such as scrapping the death penalty and allowing Kurdish-language broadcasts, and to shove the meddlesome army back in the barracks.
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Davies had never voted in his life until last year's EU referendum, when he cast his ballot for Brexit because he saw the bloc as "a failing thing" that was too meddlesome and had not worked for Britain.
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She said at a congressional hearing this month that the plan would make the F.C.C. too meddlesome in program licenses and that the agency might not have the legal authority to act as a watchdog over those agreements.
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He scolds her for being meddlesome and points out the fact that Harriet would have been lucky to marry Mr. Martin, not only because he'd have raised her social rank (hate the game, people), but because they were genuinely in love.
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In a speech last month Mr Kim attacked Mr Moon, complaining about South Korean authorities "posing as a meddlesome 'mediator'" just after the South Korean president had visited the White House to urge Mr Trump to keep up the diplomacy.
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Attacks on EU regulations, seen by British eurosceptics as an ever-expanding swathe of petty diktats by meddlesome Brussels bureaucrats, have been a recurrent theme in the debate ahead of Britain's June 23 referendum on whether to remain in the bloc.
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Besides "splendiferous", Dahl-inspired vocabulary in the new edition includes an updated entry for the word "gremlins", the meddlesome imps that sabotaged airplanes in Dahl's first children's book in 1943, and "human bean" – a humorous alteration or mispronunciation of human being.
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So, if you're re-watching in preparation for the revival, and you've found yourself daydreaming about buying a house in Stars Hollow and living among the quirky and sometimes meddlesome residents, here's how much you'd have to fork over to move in.
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Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) tells his own personal legion of doom Archie's arrest will "dissolve the very glue" that holds Riverdale's most meddlesome kids — aka his own daughter Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), Archie, Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), and Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) — together.
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The sudden dismissal of FBI director James Comey has suddenly transformed the man blamed by many Democrats for Hillary Clinton's defeat into the liberal Twittersphere's Thomas à Becket and Donald Trump into Henry II, ridding himself in vile fashion of a meddlesome priest.
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King Henry II may not have actually said, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and the relic from Hungary's Esztergom Basilica may not really be from Becket's elbow, but in such matters historical authenticity may not be the point.
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But Goodell's suspension of players for more ambiguous infractions like deflating footballs or taunting teammates has led many fans, and some players, to complain that he is meddlesome and affecting the quality of play by sidelining some of the game's top stars.
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Even Jean-Claude Juncker, the increasingly absent president of the European Commission (the bit of the EU that proposes laws) and a dyed-in-the-wool federalist, admits that the EU has become a meddlesome presence in the lives of its citizens.
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Representative Connolly is now going around quoting Henry II, who, legend tells us, asked "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" just before some of his loyal soldiers ran off and murdered the politically difficult archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket.
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There are tender moments and also laughs as meddlesome Frankie tries to sort out her son's love life; and more bittersweet ones, including discussions about money and inheritance - inspired, according to Sachs, by his own experience of losing a good friend to cancer.
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A 2016 Buzzfeed profile charted Kusama's subsequent struggles in the industry: Her follow-up, Æon Flux, was a box office failure, thanks to a meddlesome studio and Jennifer's Body, the Diablo Cody-penned thriller, is one of the more fascinating movie failures in recent history.
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Delinquent boys as young as 9 and troubled men with wives and children (not to mention a few meddlesome Irish and American activists) were all shipped off in former slave ships and put to work here in a country that was not easy to tame.
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He said it rang in his ears as "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest," paraphrasing a quote attributed to English King Henry II that courtiers took to mean he wanted the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket murdered in the year 1170.
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In many ways, climate change denial has become a proxy for rural Americans to push back against out-of-touch urbanites, meddlesome environmentalists, and alarmist liberals who are seen as trying to impose their will on small towns and farming communities they do not understand.
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Travers, who was born in Australia to Anglo-Irish parents, claimed that black children loved reading the "pickaninny dialect" in her book, but that she made the change because she didn't wish to see "Mary Poppins tucked away in a closet" by meddlesome adults.
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Indeed, Kreizler remains an interpersonally proficient figure with virtually anyone from any social strata, with the possible exception of meddlesome priests, one of whom he banishes from his institution when the clergyman speaks ill of a tween girl who's brought in after she has been caught masturbating.
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Editorial Sacred relics may not have the mystical power they had in a less secular past, but the return to Britain from Hungary of one of the few surviving fragments of bone from Thomas Becket, the murdered "meddlesome priest" of hagiography, literature, stage and screen, still commands considerable attention.
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The European Union can be meddlesome, arrogant and incompetent, but seldom if ever was the ordinary British reader told how it had secured peace on the Continent, embraced the former Communist countries of Central Europe, broken up cartels or forced member states to clean up their rivers and beaches.
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"Comey laid out the portrait of a president who was obsessed with his potential exposure in the Russia investigation and finally decided to rid himself of the meddlesome FBI director to impede the investigation," said William Yeomans, former deputy assistant attorney general, who spent 26 years at the Department of Justice.
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Killmonger's crusade for violent retribution in Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther" (a racial justice film that features both revenge and bona fide superheroes), and Chris's bloody rampage at the end of Jordan Peele's "Get Out," bid for our sympathies from a parallel universe, free from the meddlesome gravity of our own inequitable one.
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As droves of eccentric, meddlesome relatives turn up to wait for a red moon to rise, when all will be called into the swamp to fulfill or contest fates handed down long ago, only the courage to face truths about themselves — truths as dark as the swamp itself — will save Blue and Tumble.
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While that might sound meddlesome, the results are no different from a plant that was genetically altered via selective breeding, and the process is much more precise.. "We already accept so many plants and animals in our food that have been bred to be totally different than how they were in nature," Bodnar says.
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Yet as was the case with previous Netflix original creations, Okja's director Bong has said that the company gave him "total freedom, with no restrictions," when it came to making this movie—a stark contrast to what reportedly happened with Snowpiercer, which came to America through the more traditional and apparently meddlesome Hollywood distributor the Weinstein Company.
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Trump has long been obsessed with his remarkable election victory (and none of the above should suggest the outcome would have been different), but it's more than clear that what he accomplished in speaking to the angst of white working class voters was also done with meddlesome tricks by foreign powers, data harvested from the unsuspecting and cover-ups.
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