What a tiresome exercise in the worst kind of political sophistry it has all become.
The picture is marred only by a recent flare-up with Belarus, and a tiresome squabble with Lithuania about spelling.
Other times, though, the pigeon had to tap a tiresome 20 pecks before the light turned green and the grain was delivered.
Anyone with a dark skin (as plenty of foreigners have found to their cost) risks harassment from the police that can range from a tiresome document check to detention, or worse.
But the problem is that as soon as fun becomes part of a corporate strategy it ceases to be fun and becomes its opposite at best an empty shell and at worst a tiresome imposition.
This would have quickly become tiresome, but a whole virtual affair between co-workers who were, to our knowledge, never romantically involved, jazzed up Bets' dishing and it became office tradition to spend a few minutes in the lunch room checking in with Bets.
You haven't tried to run a house with tiresome servants and ailing children, and you don't realize what a strain it is at times, and how molehills become mountains, because there are so many of them piled on to each other.
Inspectors found that Key Skills were treated as a "tiresome distraction" by trainers, trainees and employers.
They regard McKinsey as one of the world's best-managed companies though the repeated comparisons between McKinseyites and the Jesuits become a little tiresome.
As for processed food, there is a deep distrust of it here and cooking remains a long and tiresome undertaking.
In order to win a vote of confidence in parliament on April 28th, he had to make a string of tiresome concessions to the various parties in his coalition.
From that, through a complicated and rather tiresome procedure involving phenomena known as the Josephson effect and the quantum Hall effect, it is possible to express electrical power in terms of h and so, to calculate h in terms of the balanced mass.
Israel's government, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, and his backers abroad, especially in the United States Congress, insist that Palestinian statehood is premature: instead of going to the UN, the Palestinians should return to the negotiating table without tiresome preconditions, such as demanding a freeze on the building of Jewish settlements.
But if you spend enough time talking to ministers, EU commissioners and ambassadors in Brussels, you cannot escape the sense that, in private, Mr Sarkozy is seen as a rather ludicrous and tiresome man, forever announcing grand, impulsive plans, ideally without any warning at press conferences, before leaving his colleagues to pick up the pieces.
Imagine, for a moment, today's tiresome conflicts settled on the field of honor:Martha Stewart and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White facing off with rapiers at dawn.
Boulder-hopping with a heavy backpack takes time and is tiresome.
That it takes time to customise a portal to your own tastes makes switching tiresome, but most web users are fickle and the inconvenience is unlikely to deter them for long.
The voice acting and the script are by far the worst either has ever been in the series, and Cortana, alternating between malicious corrupted AI and a one-liner delivering sarcasm machine, grows tiresome.
And even though he's been at it for a quarter-century, it doesn't get tiresome.
His insistence on having a thumping music score accompany 80% of the movie makes for some tiresome viewing.
In that detail the Conservatives see "tiresome, repetitive" statistics stuck in one place to "make it look as if a lot of activity is going on".
Rather than circling among dozens of websites and suffering through tiresome page loads at each URL, RSS adherents can skim headlines at the hub of a giant content wheel, and in many cases (depending on how the feeds were configured) read entire articles without leaving the RSS service.
Maintaining vigilance is tiresome, and people lose focus and energy when they've served in powerful positions for a long time.
He chews on a bamboo shoot and eyes us with world-weary boredom, as if we were tiresome in-laws.
Poles mind a lot that, despite huge efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, they still face costly and tiresome visa rules that have been lifted for others.
The impression left is of a writer frozen in a precocious teenagery, whose ability to tease and provoke the grown-ups is entertaining but ultimately tiresome.
Both new members of the CE line feature those standard 3x optical zooms that have become so tiresome along with 2.36-inch TFT LCDs (no viewfinder here), while the 5300 sports a 2.0-inch LCD and seemingly no optical zoom.
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