Ms Banon's account would not make her the first female journalist to be harassed by a powerful man.

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The men worry that their wives and daughters will be harassed, so they want a separate women's station.

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Members of Cookstown DPP have been told they will be harassed if any controversial loyal order parades are re-routed during the marching season.

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With one in four American woman still be harassed on the job and less than half of them reporting it to organizational authorities.

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Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, said it would be a lot to ask a company like Vodafone to actively resist the Egyptian government's requests, especially when there may be engineers on the ground in Egypt who could be arrested or harassed.

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The judge is too harassed to be grand, and I liked the sight of him wearily dipping a lump of sugar into his glass of tea, and clearly thinking, Spare me these folk.

NEWYORKER: Tehran Tales

Posters and radio adverts will be used in the campaign which warns offenders that the police will be called in as soon as workers are harassed or attacked.

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Voters are harassed by spoof late-night telephone calls from people claiming to be pro-charter campaigners.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Some members may feel the wisest course will be to approve Mr Kiriyenko, and then harass his government just as it harassed Mr Chernomyrdin's.

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