It was, for the French and Germans, a disagreeable foretaste of the fiercer reactions a real delay might produce.

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Even the storied Rio Grande, which she and Brian had seen on a disagreeable weekend trip several years ago to Matamoros, was hardly more than a drainage ditch.

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Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

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After reaching her thirties, she suffered a medical event that pretty much pushed over the wall from being strange, difficult and disagreeable to strange and sometimes rapid mood swings and a highly volitile dangerous personality.

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And they know how to disagree without being disagreeable, and there's a sense of civility and a sense that there are moments where you set politics aside to do what's right.

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Even the patient Nelson Mandela thought Inkatha a pain and found visits to KwaZulu-Natal disagreeable.

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Russell Muirhead, searching for a new ethic of work, often seems to assume that work is inherently disagreeable and tedious.

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The couple will then fly to the French-speaking province of Quebec where a small, radical separatist group has vowed to make their brief stay as disagreeable as possible.

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The life-long bachelor also had a misogynist streak - he found the lawyers and civil servants he knew in Calcutta had "disagreeable wives".

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