That is starting to exasperate the United States, hitherto studiously cautious towards Mr Chavez.

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Forty-eight teams are a lot--so many that they would exasperate the attention span of even ardent fans.

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Hunt and destroy algorithms may exasperate the situation by taking out the stops, thereby driving Apple artificially lower.

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Michael Roberts, chief executive of the Association of Train Operating Companies, said that if the strike went ahead it would "exasperate passengers".

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She had written back asking Vita to explain a comment she had made that "one moment you enchant with your lovely prose and the next moment exasperate one with your misleading arguments".

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But the violent clashes still exasperate many Santiago residents.

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On the baize, Ebdon can excite with his fine shot-making but exasperate by grinding out results - he took five minutes to make a break of 12 at the Crucible in 2005.

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