What nettled him was the news media's unquestioning reiteration of that claim.
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Sprung on a breakaway by Nugent-Hopkins, Draisaitl nettled his team-high 14th goal with a backhanded shot.
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Brin arrived on Rollerblades, and Page kept staring at his P.D.A. Nettled, Diller asked if he was bored.
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The jolt of seeing him there where, only a few minutes before, I'd felt safe from observation nettled me.
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Last Wednesday, the Huskies barely topped Boston University, 13.53-59, as they were nettled by the Terriers' zone defense.
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Even so, its growing influence on the continent has nettled India and Japan, who are both boosting their engagement in response.
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We are meant to admire their resilience, but we are just as likely to be nettled by how their sentiments buttress this movie's fatalism.
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He's a surly sort, morose and easily nettled; if Adam Sandler made a desperate mid-career move into crime dramas, and shaved once a week, he'd look exactly like Sinan.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, President Trump has been relentlessly attacking his handpicked attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation that has so nettled him.
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Armstrong and his comrades are certainly shown to be deeply nettled by news of initial Soviet triumphs in the space race, but Chazelle abolishes the planting of the stars and stripes on the moon.
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Nettled by his inability to buy M&M's at the hospital, on the day his wife dies, he enters into correspondence with the vending-machine company, treating it the way a sinner treats the confessional.
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Occasionally the C.I.A. or some other agency, nettled by an article or broadcast, would loudly proclaim that it was going to investigate a leak, but then would merely go through the motions and abandon the case.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Sanders nettled some Jews by making a campaign appearance on Rosh Hashana, a day most Jews take off from work, at Liberty University, an evangelical college in Virginia founded by the Rev.
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Nettled by relatively mild U.S. government criticism of his violent crackdown on drug crime, Duterte has abused the U.S. President, called for the removal of American military trainers from the southern island of Mindanao, and ended combined maritime patrols.
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When Jacques Chirac, then the president of France, told President Vladimir Putin of Russia at a Group of 8 summit in 2005 that "we cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine," the comment nettled Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Mourinho will be nettled by the prospect of a long European journey to Russia, yet a look at the Europa League field should fill him with confidence as AS Roma and Olympique Lyon are the only other in-form, quality contenders remaining.
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The country was dissatisfied with an economy that had yet to soar to the heights it did in the late 1990s and nettled by a sense that Bill Clinton's presidency had meandered until the day Hillarycare finally crashed on Bob Dole Rock.
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As heir to the traditions of the original Orthodox, or Byzantine, church, based in Constantinople before the 15th-century Muslim conquest of the city, the Istanbul-based patriarch has traditionally been viewed as the "first among equals" by the Orthodox faithful, a role that has long nettled Russian church leaders.
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If it nettled Ms. Krantz that her work was compared unfavorably with that of literary novelists, she could take heart from the fact that her books found their way to millions of readers who appreciated them for precisely what they were — a point brought home vividly after tiny errors surfaced in two of her novels.
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Ms. Wilson, whose identity as a covert operative was leaked in 2003 by members of the George W. Bush administration nettled by the opposition of her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the Iraq war, repeated the well-worn narrative that Jewish neoconservatives promoted the invasion of Iraq — and are beating the drum for a conflict with Iran.
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It nettled him to be put on the defensive, his subtleness openly contemned.
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It was probably your first time trying to act authoritative, since he nettled you so.
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In conclusion, the inspector offered his resignation to the Board, being much nettled by an accusation of incompetence in the London papers.
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The name urticaria for hives comes from the Latin name of nettle (Urtica, from urere, to burn). The English word 'nettled', meaning irritated or angry, is derived from 'nettle'. There is a common idea in Great Britain that the nettle was introduced by the Romans. The idea was mentioned by William Camden in his book Britannia of 1586.
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As Thi was active in the purge, it was believed that the Quyen had fallen out with Thi.Shaplen, p. 295. The deposal prompted US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor to angrily berate Thiệu, Thi, Kỳ and Cang in a private meeting and threaten to cut off aid if they did not reverse their decision. Although nettled by the outburst, Thi took a perverse pleasure in riling Taylor.
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He is at first nettled and infuriated by her forthright and outspoken manner, her ability to see easily through his reserve, and the great social gap between them. Over time, however, her beauty, strength, and intelligence win his heart, and the two become dangerously attracted to each other. Before things get out of hand, Hornblower informs Lady Barbara that he is married. She leaves the Lydia two days later when they rendezvous with other British ships.
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The spathe, or the cobra hood, is dark purple oblong-ovate, prominently striped with white or purple, and a nettled pattern in the upper part, and with a narrowed tail like tip, 1–4 cm long. Spadix is thick at the base, with a long thread like appendage 8–20 cm long. Leaf stalk and stem are often brown-spotted. Wallach's cobra lily is found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to SE Tibet, at altitudes of 2400–3600 m.
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McNamara praised Kennedy's "shrewd diplomacy", saying he had "remained calm and cool, firm, but restrained, never nettled and never rattled". Though this was a violation of World Bank rules, McNamara felt guilty over refusing Kennedy's requests to resign and decline the World Bank presidency. He was attacked for the tape with the New York Times in an editorial lambasting him for his "poor judgement and poorer taste". For a moment, McNamara feared he would be fired from the World Bank.
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Purcell, according to Hawkins, was "not a little nettled" by the queen's preference, and when he composed a birthday ode for Queen Mary in 1692 he used Cold and Raw as the repeated bass line for the "May her blest example" movement.A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, iii. 564 Mrs. Hunt's voice was said by a contemporary to be like the pipe of a bullfinch; she was also credited with an "exquisite hand on the lute".
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Brookhart was backed by the national Republican Party, and defeated future Governor and U.S. Senator Clyde L. Herring. As Time would later write, Brookhart's "pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators.""Again, Brookhart," Time, April 20, 1936. Two years later, in the 1924 election, he made his first attempt to win a full term. Running again as the Republican nominee, Brookhart appeared to have defeated the Democratic candidate, Daniel F. Steck, by a small margin, with Brookhart getting 447,594 votes to Steck's 446,840.
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He was considered to have "deserved extraordinarily well," though at the same time some dissatisfaction was expressed at "his great private trade". The question was left to the EIC governor, Sir Thomas Smythe, who gave his opinion that no one could be a fitter commander than Best, but that for merchandise Captain William Keeling was far before him, and should be sent to Surat (7 September). Best refused to go on the voyage without private trade, and a few days later (16 September), nettled, it would appear, by the refusal of the council to give his son an appointment as one of their factors, he refused to go at all.
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Yet her favorite costar was the great African American tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she appeared in four films, beginning with The Little Colonel (1935), in which they performed the famous staircase dance.Kasson, American National Biography (2015) Biographer Anne Edwards wrote about the tone and tenor of Shirley Temple films: :This was mid-Depression, and schemes proliferated for the care of the needy and the regeneration of the fallen. But they all required endless paperwork and demeaning, hours-long queues, at the end of which an exhausted, nettled social worker dealt with each person as a faceless number. Shirley offered a natural solution: to open one's heart.
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Readying herself to leave the house, a polite but somewhat aggressive notary (Don Haggerty) rings the doorbell, telling her he has an appointment with George to go over some legal documents. She steadfastly says George is too sick to see anyone. Ellen desperately drives downtown to the post office to see the supervisor, who gives her a form for George to sign but then, nettled by Ellen's unhinged and uncooperative behavior, tells her he is going to allow the letter to be delivered. Defeated, she returns to the house and, as she gets to the front door, a kindly neighbor woman (Georgia Backus) offers to help Ellen, since she has seemed so upset all day.
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The Derby Mercury, Wednesday 18 August 1847 > On Thursday the 5th instant, at the quiet village of Wysall, a somewhat > remarkable foot-race took place – remarkable, not for the distance run, nor > for the speed of the runners, but for the fact that each of them has been > running a race with old Time for more than ninety years – one having > exceeded his great climacteric 28, the other 33 years. The distance was > forty yards. The competitors were – Mr. Wootton Bryans, sen., aged 96, and > Mr. John Hogg, aged 91 – the latter winning by just a yard – which so > nettled or rather mettled his rival, that he challenged him to jump for a > guinea.
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Knowing that Westmoreland and the US Embassy were hostile to Thi and supportive of his leadership, Kỳ mustered the support of eight generals on the 10-man junta, meaning that along with his vote, there were nine officers in favor of Thi's removal. With Thi the only non-supporter, Kỳ and his colleagues removed Thi from the junta and his corps command on 10 March 1966. Thi claimed that during this meeting, knowing the other generals' antipathy to him, he nettled them by chastising their commitment to the country. He said the populace would never support the generals' war effort as long as they lived so comfortably, and he mocked them for ostentatiously flying their wives and mistresses to Hong Kong for shopping expeditions.
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Lennon raised the possibility of individual songwriting responsibilities being split equally between the three of them in future. In this arrangement, each of the writers would contribute four songs to an album, and Starr would have the opportunity to contribute two. Mark Lewisohn comments on the exchange that proceeded between the three bandmates (Starr was not present): > Paul... responds to the news that George now has equal standing as a > composer with John and himself by muttering something mildly provocative. “I > thought until this album that George’s songs weren’t that good,” he says, > which is a pretty double-edged compliment since the earlier compositions > he’s implicitly disparaging include Taxman and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. > There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste.
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Little James, somewhat nettled at the threatened visitation, peevishly replied; 'it may happen, likewise, that this chattering magpie, by the time your hawks have arrived within sight of his nest, by a singular power which he has over the hawks of these wooded mountains and glens, having called them in council, they may be prevailed on to suffer no strange hawks to infringe on their liberties, at least to within the range that they and their ancestors have for a length of time been accustomed.' So saying, they parted. In due time the Campbells kept their word; and Little James, having gathered his people from the various glens over which his influence extended, gave the meeting to the Argyleshire party in so warm a manner, that few returned to give an account of the hawking match for which they so merrily departed.
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