The big fly in the ointment is the discrepancy between the employment data and the GDP data.

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Head trauma in current and retired players remains a fly in the ointment.

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The major fly in the ointment for DRYS is that it is firmly entrenched under the descending weekly 50 moving average.

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The more likely fly in the ointment may be attempts by the two right-wing parties to make use of the affair for their own ends.

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Which is where I think our fly in the ointment is.

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The area that will surround the lake after its creation is currently under the control of the state government, which is, in fact, the fly in the ointment.

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He is getting on a bit now and is one of the senior guys out there and I think Stoner might be a fly in the ointment for him.

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There is, however, one fly in the ointment.

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But when something is wrong in the progression a fly in the ointment, a monkey wrench in the works, a bug in the code we get hung up along the way, and our logical system breaks down.

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Of course, the fly in the natural gas ointment is fracking, the hydraulic fracturing of underground rock to extract more gas and oil.

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But the huge, buzzing fly in that ointment is that Coulton has a very free and open relationship with his audience.

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The one fly in Mr Milosevic's ointment is Milo Djukanovic, president-elect of Montenegro.

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