At worst, its engineers may fall behind, rendering the box irritatingly out of date.
Many in Brussels and among the more integrationist member states believe Britain secured an irritatingly favourable deal in June.
This suggests that culture, irritatingly vague though it may sound, is more important to Silicon Valley's success than economic or technological factors.
Waiting-lists for routine hospital operations are irritatingly long, and the newspapers retail many horror stories about the state of the country's hospitals.
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Why doesn't Apple, a company so irritatingly up to date in its products and marketing, update its worldview when it comes to sales?
True, many in Beijing, especially those whose counterparts in the capitalist world are called yuppies, affect a boredom for the games (Pan-Pan, the games' panda mascot, is irritatingly ubiquitous).
Glocer's public blog is irritatingly free from any information on the latest developments in the takeover bid from Thomson, his most recent post being about a recent trip to Brazil.
France, of course, has long been the bogeyman of the Atlantic alliance, always anxious to stake its claim to a seat at the top table and yet always seen as inevitably and irritatingly slow to endorse American-led initiatives.
Hard to believe that the Southern Californian odyssey that opened to mixed reviews (The New Yorker called it an "irritatingly antic caper") is now considered among the best in the Coen Brothers canon and a bona fide cultural phenomenon.
If there's something irritatingly cocky about a Geat who strips naked to fight a supernatural being on equal terms (Zemeckis goes to "Austin Powers" lengths to hide Beowulf's manhood), his adversary is a curiously sympathetic figure resembling a refugee from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition.
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