Others hope that bin Laden's demise could remove a historic irritant between Washington and Islamabad.
For Stevens, the net neutrality fight has morphed from an irritant to a genuine obstacle.
The struggle to improve efficiency and cut costs is a constant irritant in labor- management relations.
While the mites were an irritant they were not necessarily a massive problem at first.
Though it had Mr Putin's blessing, this was widely seen as a geopolitical irritant for Russia.
Now, the Obama-Biden boosters have refocused their attention on their earlier irritant, Sarah Palin.
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Is a workplace irritant a likely cause of my breathing problems or asthma flare-ups?
For a natural high, though, superhot chilis require unnatural care to process, because they are an irritant.
But it was concerned about what it called the "potential toxicity of the gel" as an irritant.
Speaking on Wednesday before the news of the appeal was confirmed, Andronikou described the situation as an "irritant".
Milosevic is weathering the storm of protest by shrugging off the opposition as little more than an irritant.
This ionic detergent is a strong irritant if snorted but is inconsequential when the drug is taken orally.
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Eye and respiratory tract irritant that may also affect the central nervous system.
Its main irritant is that it causes significant performance degradation by dramatically slowing even the simplest of computer chores.
The smoke can be an irritant and anyone affected has been advised to stay indoors with windows and doors shut.
His determination to make waves on areas outside his brief, in particular Europe, was a perpetual irritant to the chancellor.
Likewise, about half of those surveyed felt technology failures were an ongoing irritant that they are powerless to do anything about.
P-notes would be banned, the new rule is still an irritant, because it forces the revelation of certain kinds of trade.
White House spokesmen, fresh from championing the "reset" in relations with Moscow, carefully played down the illegals' arrests as a minor irritant.
"It's going to be an irritant and, to put it simply, the embargo will stay for a longer period, " said the administrator.
But, however smoothly Mr Menem's visit may go, Britain cannot suppose that the Falklands irritant to good relations can then be pigeonholed.
But the trouble is that these chemicals are an irritant and they'll...
Untrue: It can be allergy-related or due to some sort of irritant.
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Mr Clean, once so useful, has become an irritant to the government with his harping on about ethics, openness, fairness and the like.
From the 60s until relatively recently, there existed a pervasive attitude that unwanted sexual advances were an irritant rather than a disciplinary matter or a crime.
If so, far from being a success for Europe's common foreign policy, Iran could become a big irritant in relations between America and Europe.
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For the urban middle classes, official lawlessness is a big irritant.
This is especially true of regulation, the biggest irritant to business.
So the fact that 10 percent or so can buy some perks is an irritant something Germans complain about but manage to put up with.
Prosecuting radical Islamists not only shows strong leadership, which should stand her in good stead come polling day, but will help to neutralise an obvious electoral irritant.
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