Kids are reluctant to write back to that smelly old person who keeps pestering them.
The number of complaints upheld about paparazzi pestering has halved in the past five years.
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Mr Hatoyama's administration, meanwhile, should stop pestering the BoJ about deflation and face up to its own responsibilities.
But his father, suffering from advanced heart disease, kept pestering him to return to Wichita and run the business.
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Instead of waiting for Jimmy to call the office, Kendall called Jimmy daily, sometimes twice a day, pestering him with questions.
Hoffman is concerned about creating a deluge of pestering salesmen and headhunters.
Lydia sat the test in her summer holidays, after raising the idea with her parents and pestering them for the best part of a year.
Of small consolation is that your attention-deficit-disordered CEO will not be pestering you with this year's fad, because he's at Lompoc serving three to five.
Guerrero said the next pontiff should be a dynamic leader who can lead the church in a modern era beset by long-pestering problems such as poverty.
The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies.
Sandy's answer to all this pestering was a shrug or a smile: the trick to doing it was his being the quiet, serious, unostentatious boy that he was.
Thus the United States should stop pestering China on trade.
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Pestering America is not something that allies should do lightly.
As a diminutive 12-year-old, a young Zou Shiming began studying martial arts, but after much pestering he convinced his parents and a local coach to let him take up boxing instead.
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Scene Four: Al is pestering us again about how we have to tighten our belts or else the global sea level will rise dramatically and turn our coastal cities into Waterworld.
We do know it means more than harassing, which is described as badgering or pestering conduct, since 1512 makes intentional harassment a misdemeanor -- a lesser offense of corruptly persuade, which is a felony.
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The danger is that in his focus on deterring tabloids from pestering actresses, Lord Justice Leveson muzzles serious British journalism of all sorts, which is already threatened by some of the world's barmiest libel laws.
Annie's Bar, where hacks and members mixed, was notable for the perpetual presence of one monumentally tedious Labour alcoholic who, in between cadging drinks, spent his time pestering reluctant journalists to take him out to dinner.
"It was mildly pestering, " he says.
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Oh, and good news for HP and E-Ten device owners, you'll likely have the option of updating to the new OS via a firmware update -- everyone else had best get to pestering their manufacture or trolling the torrents for the bump.
As she told the story of the preceding few weeks, a time when several different venture capital funds in New York were vying for a spot in her Series A round, pestering her with phone calls, lunch offers and even the occasional gift, it struck me.
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The house had grown disturbed doors pestering at their frames whenever the weather drew breath, clatters on the roof, something twisting, searching overhead, and meanwhile she dreamed a little of being underwater, swimming the length of an obstacle course, both a game and an obstacle course, in some kind of terrible amusement park.
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