But in the Europe now being shaped Russia ought to count for more than just its nuisance value.

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Even in an imperfect system, the nuisance value of a threatened lawsuit is a useful weapon for the weak.

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He still commands the loyalty of about a quarter of the DPJ's 289 lower-house MPs, which gives him plenty of nuisance value.

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That was up slightly from previous years but still indicates that many such cases settle for nuisance value, or less than the expected cost of defending them.

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The stand had gone beyond nuisance value for England when Bresnan cranked up his speed and pegged back Johnson's off-stump to silence a growing swell of approval from the Australian spectators.

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This last had nothing but nuisance value.

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DirectBuy had no reason to object to a settlement that offered a two-month extension to existing customer memberships and nuisance-value fees to the lawyers.

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The industry also is awash in nuisance-value litigation.

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Exactly when and why the Luftwaffe High Command decided to switch from these nuisance raids to conventional bombing raids on cultural centres of no military value is difficult to determine, but on 23 April, twenty-five German bombers attacked Exeter, using radar beams as a guide.

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The judge concluded that the media hordes and "looky loos" were a nuisance but caused only minor physical damage and a temporary decline in the house's value.

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