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...There’s a fight, several quarrels and an ill-judged smooch: it’s Bruce Springsteen meets Chekhov, delivered with waspish humour and the modern irritations of missed texts and faulty GPS....
...The regulator has caused increasing irritation in government circles, amid fears the City is losing ground to rival financial centres such as New York....
...“Compatriots on both sides of the Straits are all Chinese, there is no irritation that cannot be resolved, there is no problem that cannot be discussed, there is no force that can divide us,” Xi said in...
...Indeed, they provoked such irritation among Parisians that rental e-scooters were banned from the city in September 2023....
From Dr John Doherty, Vienna, Austria
...Imo flings ideas, suggests phrases and stagings, waves books and marks up scores, to Ben’s irritation and eventual grudging acceptance....
...The episode itself, however, can feel a little scattershot as David seemingly rushes to relieve himself of the irritations that have been festering within him since Curb last aired in 2021....
...The first three have bilateral irritations. Rutte in 2021, during an EU tussle over a Hungarian anti-LGBT law, said his goal was “to bring Hungary to its knees on this issue”....
...The US’s annual report on trade barriers devotes 32 pages to listing its irritations with the EU, way ahead of everyone else except China....
...The irritation at having to talk coyly about something you’ve enjoyed is understandable, although I am more sympathetic to it now that I am several books ahead of the Slow Horses series than I was when I...
...But that very irritation is itself a sign that Putin is not as confident either in himself or the future as he wishes to appear....
...But with the war in Gaza dragging on, and more than 250 soldiers killed in combat, that irritation has morphed into anger and a determination to change the status quo....
...Lennon and McCartney, equal parts inspiration and irritation, were better together, perhaps like Orwell and O’Shaughnessy. This kind of literary collaboration made a comeback in our century....
...Asset managers tend to either love it, and bristle in irritation if you fail to love it as much as they do, or hate it because they pick stocks for a living and index tracking funds are eating their lunch...
...My irritation rose with the sense that I was being conned by panic and moral pressure. On the other hand, it would cost even more if things turned bad....
...On the contrary, US officials wasted months denying the scale of their subprime mortgage losses, prompting Japanese officials to complain to me — with justifiable irritation — that the Americans were refusing...
...There was a hint of irritation at Hamas in public comments by Iranian leaders. But in the nearly four months since, Iran has gradually turned the situation to its advantage....
...Since the US has been dragging out that reform debate for more than three years to general irritation, that’s not much of a threat. It’s more likely to be counterproductive....
...Either way, the grown-up response would have been for Sunak to express irritation, firmly but politely, when meeting Mitsotakis, restate his government’s position and move on....
...And studies show that serums above 20 per cent might cause irritation – plus higher concentration doesn’t increase its effectiveness....
...This should have been no more than an irritation. I could not access work emails but my essential information was backed up, the phone worked and it was the weekend....
...The twin delivery system also produces an ultra-slow release, which helps avoid irritation....
...Berlin too, has expressed public irritation with its neighbour....
...Brussels wants judiciously to signal irritation. Hence, it’s considering whether to restart a separate WTO case against said steel tariffs that it suspended as part of the moratorium in 2021....
...It is a surprisingly mild title for an issue that provokes such universal irritation....
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