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Sentence Examples I felt ashamed that I, a pre-med student, was nothing more than a meddling bystander during this life-or-death struggle. Thus, there was little a well-meaning band of foreign do-gooders could achieve by meddling. There are grumblers who say this is another example of meddling by the nanny state. Elections should be open and transparent so there is no opportunity for meddling. The Labour factions decided, however, it was no good meddling in West Lothian. I don't think we need to be seen to be meddling too much in the affairs of the Middle East region. Increasingly, the minister is meddling in areas that he should leave well alone. He also said foreign governments should stop meddling in Hong Kong's affairs. It is one thing to contact the dead, it is another to meddle and you are meddling. A distaste for meddling in free trade in art remains strong, as does our desire for visual contact with an original. Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling. The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures. The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling. Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility. Prominent right-wing pundits like to portray the above interventions as woolly-headed meddling by decadent, smug millionaires. Tim has a history of failed romances, generally because his meddling mom puts the kybosh on things. This article on energy policy shows that fuel shortages and price leaps are almost entirely created by government meddling. Government meddling and bureaucracy, to whatever degree that might be true, is preferable to unbridled monopolism. The Vatican signed its ill-famed concordat with Hitler in 1933 to prevent him from grabbing church property and meddling in church affairs. Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up. Show More Sentences A retired British Army major is planning to offer refuge to companies sick of government meddling in the Web. First of all, he used foam board, which is sturdy enough to withstand meddling gravity. She is ever the meddling reporter, looking to create the ideal stories in her off-hours. Like all good cabals, it is hard to know exactly who belongs to the Establishment and how Machiavellian their meddling is. They defy the myth of public sector pen-pushers meddling in business affairs they know nothing about. His actions have a whiff of the old offence of maintenance and champerty, meddling in another's law suit for his own advantage. But on what basis does a government excuse its meddling into the private financial affairs of its citizens? Emotionally unstable, needy, self-destructive, meddling, they threaten the fabric of our civil society. Tony's meddling sister Janice turns into an excellent foil and object of Tony's anger. Perhaps someone with the inquisitiveness of my German friend has been meddling. If that were the extent of their meddling that would be bad enough but there have been dark and dangerous consequences. Shaun White blames State Department meddling in pipeline issues for Olympic medal loss in halfpipe. For an organisation normally chary of meddling in its ten members' internal affairs it is an obvious area of potential co-operation. Instead, the families' objections have more to do with Mr Murdoch's perceived populism, editorial meddling and rapacity. But no attention was paid to these warnings and the episcopate was even reproached for meddling in what did not concern it. The subsidy trough is never full enough, and political meddling is a constant nuisance. There's the band, of course, hundreds of roadies, uniformly massive and goateed like pro wrestlers, and the odd meddling journalist. And Tepco struck back at Mr. Kan, saying his meddling interfered in its disaster response. The EU meddling with the UK postal system is as foreign to me as Britain fiddling with the Flemish, Finnish or French letters. Another approach may be for you to forthrightly, but respectfully, address rumours and meddling behaviour. Show More Sentences On top of everything else, it is meddling by an unelected, irresponsible body. This cross-border meddling is exactly what Hassan was seemingly able to prove. However, Europe is right to rail against Russian repression and governmental meddling in the lives of its neighbours. State meddling in what has historically been regarded as a natural division of labour may irk some. Instead it meddles, often malevolently, with its neighbours. That is not surprising, for it has been the victim of much meddling. Similarly, non-governmental organizations should be working for the betterment of the country instead of meddling in its internal affairs. He told Hudson that he had to understand that people who had their homes invaded felt very bad about the fact that others had been meddling with their property. Jack Taggart, is yelling at his son, Billy, to carefully affix all the scarecrows to their posts, while also accusing him of meddling with his equipment. On Thursday, the Russian president, Vladmir Putin, accused the US of meddling in a bid to undermine the 2018 World Cup. These principles seem rather basic, but the government is undermining them more and more by meddling with the rule of law. But my main objection is that it is more meddling by the European Union in taxation matters. Yet many citizens are seduced by the notion that we have suffered from excessive judicial meddling. I alone can create unity in hearts, if you stop meddling and if you let Me act. An example of this was Hutton's meddling in the political process to propel Canada into the South African war. This regrettable position occurred as a result of incessant pressure and meddling by the United States Administration. Aided by some divine meddling, Paris performs the consummate indignity against his host Menelaus by absconding with his wife. The next place to watch for riots, or other kind of Russian meddling, is unknown, but my money is on Azerbaijan. Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British meddling. The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform. Her eldest son might be kind to trees, or he might be a meddling buffoon who thinks it his birthright to have the rest of us jump to it whenever he shoots his mouth off. Show More Sentences I mean, I guess she's still meddling, but at least she's off our backs. Dispense with all the insipid government meddling and let the market decide what happens to Wall Street from this point forward. Youngsters who began meddling with the furniture and other products on display, had to be restrained now and again by the elders accompanying them. He laid the blame firmly on meddling by foreign powers sowing civil disobedience. For months, Russia had been meddling in the affairs of its neighbor Ukraine without having to pay a serious cost. As long as they abide by their own internal rules of governance, the secular society imposes no meddling restrictions. The legal argument centers on whether the state is unconstitutionally meddling in federal law. Thus the chances of his winning the game is sabotaged by unfair meddling. He fears a rural domestic backlash and continued foreign meddling as a result of the pact. Or can his actions be explained as essentially defensive and reactive in response to growing American meddling in areas of traditional Russian spheres of influence? It's time these starry-eyed amateurs stopped their hare-brained meddling. The pond was filled with wildlife, as there were red and yellow goldfish swimming about, ducks paddling about on the surface, meddling with the herons. Deborah talks about politicians not playing to their strengths when meddling in the day-to-day, but also believes the service's political profile can only be a good thing. What is gained by meddling with a highly wrought comedy plot? Salmond was stunned by the unexpected concession, which seemed to have deprived him of the opportunity to attack Westminster for meddling in Scottish matters. The obnoxious meddling journalist is a stock character in fiction. That, he says in a parody of Islamist rhetoric, would show nosy secularists, whining human-rights groups and meddling Western governments who is boss. Prodromou said denationalising CyTA would free it from political party meddling and phenomena of corruption. And the new working group also needs to be free from political meddling, including from the House Republicans who have regularly run interference for their big-bank allies. Then Nicola is left open-mouthed with disbelief when the trip is scuppered thanks to some last-minute meddling by her husband. Show More Sentences Writs were common prohibiting Church courts from meddling into the title of land, even if it were to be held in frankalmoign. Even without the UN's meddling, ICANN is a collaborative effort of the global community. Many aren't even meant to be part of the habitats they now maraud across, but thanks to human meddling, they ended up there, then got bossy about it. Aggression and foreign occupation, foreign interference and meddling, poverty, underdevelopment and exclusion are among the main such causes, to name a few. One man was stabbed to death in a row with another looter, Estonia says. In this section Secularism v democracy The final countdown Bronze meddling Sinn Fein's moment? If a country is rich, powerful and developed it can be blessed with such natural resources, but it seems that the fate of a poor country with such gifts is exploitation, strife and international meddling. He's furious at her meddling and has a real go at her, prompting Heather to say she doesn't want to live with Shirl any more. Though still popular among voters, he had forfeited the trust of his colleagues through his contemptuous treatment of them, his meddling and his indecisiveness. Mr Gore's problem was daffy Florida balloting and Supreme Court meddling. China and North Korea both condemned the embargo as meddling in the internal affairs of developing nations and promised to make efforts to increase their trade with Iran as a partial counterweight. The opposition had undermined the work of the constituent assembly, however, by meddling with the rules of procedure and attempting to revive old tensions. New Resources: RAP has been strengthened with new resources for the production of intelligence on foreign meddling in the affairs of ethnic communities in Canada. Operation Decisive Storm consolidates principle of unacceptability of any foreign meddling in Arab countries sovereignty. Mr Johnson suggests creating an arm's length control board to oversee the government's ownership, free of political meddling. Still, helping banks recapitalise only partly mitigates deleveraging. An increasingly erratic Bruce takes potshots at Tony, Dom tries it on with Belle and Lisa's meddling causes nothing but trouble. Or you can meddle with their meddling, by asking questions about their questions, or offering a canned response to their predictable opinions. That government will have to be able to organise free, fair and transparent elections on schedule, in accordance with the Lebanese constitution, without any outside interference or meddling. To win this high regard from both the complainant and the agency complained about, the Ombudsman needs to be an officer free from meddling or pressure. This was mainly the result of government meddling in media activities and the adoption in 2008 of a law imposing an automatic right of response in the press. The good old international community, despite its meddling in terrorist laws and rapid reaction forces, has done nothing to ban depleted uranium weapons. Show More Sentences While it was not always thus, keeping a distance is now necessary to protect the federal authority from the appearance of meddling in provincial affairs. Jessica Fletcher, the widowed detective of Murder She Wrote, extended the Mary Worth tradition of kindly meddling to the criminal scene. Charles grew exhausted with the pope's meddling in what he viewed as purely secular affairs. Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster. It may also originate in Roman displeasure at an empress meddling in political affairs. Hamas leaders have been careful not to criticize Egypt's border clampdown in public, for fear of being accused of meddling in Egypt's internal affairs. Gaunty relishes the role of burly striker in the party's declared war on the EU's meddling in our affairs and wasting UK dosh on airy-fairy schemes. There was growing concern especially during former president Daniel arap Moi's tenure that the executive was increasingly meddling with the affairs of the judiciary. Examples from Classical Literature But this is meddling with the province of the melancholy Jaques, and our argument is Rosalind. So the river rolled on through its solemn canyons in primeval freedom, unvexed by the tampering and meddling of man. In attending to his own business and never meddling with others, he is unexcelled. Content with this, he traversed the rest of Phocis without meddling or making. Once she is Queen, she works with her meddling mama to marry off her side of the family and create a York line and keep the Lancastrians out. You know there is an awkwardness in my meddling ever so cautiously. And here too it'll be a case of meddling with forces you don't understand. Add to it here the direct influence and meddling of the head-quarters. You are more likely to do harm than good by meddling with it. I got the dishcloth, and rather spitefully scrubbed Edgar's nose and mouth, affirming it served him right for meddling. And now the meddling of the Feds has hurt the value of the ball club. I am not meddling with theology but it seems to me that in the Elysian fields she'll have her place in a very special company. It serves him right for meddling with matters that don't concern him. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things. It is none of your business, you meddling middle-class mimsy. They were as dogs, wild beasts, lepers, and no soul that valued its hope of eternal life would throw it away by meddling in any sort with these rebuked and smitten outcasts. Find more words! 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