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.
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 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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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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This is especially true of regulation, the biggest irritant to business.
So you have seen in the past him be very vocal about the fact that he felt like there was an irritant that he wanted to highlight in his comments.
In the 1890s, Kokichi Mikimoto perfected the process of creating whole cultured pearls by introducing an irritant into an oyster's tissue, thereby making high-quality pearl jewelry more available and affordable.
Apart from getting rid of Mr Cook, a major irritant, it has brought back Brown loyalists sacked in the first term, such as Harriet Harman, now given the job of solicitor-general.
But the penalties are a huge irritant for travelers.
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The EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, urged MEPs to back the deal, arguing that high roaming charges are an obstacle to the single market and an irritant to people in Europe.
Respiratory irritant and probable carcinogen, among other things.
In its obituary, the Times recounts how he went from "little more than a minor irritant" on the fringes of Venezuelan politics to becoming a charismatic figure who inspired almost religious devotion among his millions of followers.
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