(1) From there, I graduated to the main board, where Peter chivvied me to be bolder, to complain more loudly about BR's hopeless record on equal opportunities, to make my weight felt.
(2) Ms Sturgeon spoke on the close of a consultation which confirmed that the Catholic and, indeed, many other churches retain their power to chivvy their faithful into picking up a pen: two-thirds of a record-breaking 77,000 respondees registered resistance to the change.
(3) The government chivvies its contractors to do a thousand things correctly.
(4) But, he added, courts should not be used as "an instrument … [to] chivvy parliament into spring-cleaning the statute book".
(5) Every society has some people with all manner of problems: however much you chivvy and bully them they are unlikely to appeal to employers.
(6) The great Luxembourg leak last year and the work that Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee did in chivvying Starbucks to come clean about its Dutch dealings in 2012 led to the measures now being taken.
(7) The near-vertical rock faces were far more challening than I was expecting and – though it pains me to say it – I wouldn't have made it to the top without Rob there to chivvy me along.
(8) The striker gestured with his outstretched arms and initially dragged his heels as he made his way off, until Flamini came across to chivvy him along.
(9) The company employed Carter-Ruck to chivvy journalists into obedient silence and then, having secured the mother of all super-injunctions, made the mistake of warning journalists that they could not even report mentions of Trafigura in parliament.
(10) UN warns over global fallout from debt crisis in poor countries Read more The IMF hopes the debt data published in its half-yearly fiscal report will chivvy governments into action before it is too late.
(11) He disliked his schooldays, although he was a useful rugby player and remembered with deep gratitude "Joe" Craddock, a master who proved kindly under his gruff exterior, and who chivvied the boys in his German class to such effect that Judt still commanded the language more than 40 years on.
(12) Meanwhile, on the coast of Somalia, armed ganglords chivvy the locals into a piracy expedition.
(13) And he was chivvying people into the government lobby!
(14) But the real issue is why the international community, after a seven-month air campaign, neglected post-conflict reconstruction.” “When Gaddafi died, Libya actually had, by the standards of most post-conflict states, pretty good chances of making a smooth transition to peace and stability,” Chivvis explains.
(15) We are not in the same situation but the rights that women assume here – not to be abused or raped, to "aspire" to equal representation in public life and at work – are being chivvied way.
(16) In the end, he was killed by his own citizens,” Chivvis says.
(17) When the Sainsbury's queue fascist approaches with the intention of chivvying me into the robot pen, I simply say, politely, "No thank you", and stay put.
(18) General Sharif chivvied politicians this year into giving the army sweeping new constitutional powers, including the right to try civilian terror suspects in military courts, in the wake of last year’s attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an army school in the city of Peshawar, which killed more than 130 school boys .
(19) If Cameron wants to liven things up, he should chivvy his hosts on a more intriguing question.
(20) The ad consists of Dana Chivvis, the show’s producer, recording various people on the streets of New York saying the company’s name.
Harass
Definition:
(v. t.) To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
(n.) Devastation; waste.
(n.) Worry; harassment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
(2) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(3) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(4) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(5) Even when things are taken more seriously, harassers are generally allowed to leave quietly, which enables them to move some place else and do the same thing.” Many of the women who made complaints to their institutions said they felt they were the ones on trial, while alleged perpetrators were often protected by management who feared losing a star researcher and their funding.
(6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
(7) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
(8) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
(9) Anna Gautheron only learned what the term "street harassment" meant when she read about it online.
(10) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
(11) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(12) Almost all of the 20-plus women claim they experienced Ailes’s harassment firsthand.
(13) On one level this is quite just, as everyone has the right to defend themselves, but in cases of sexual harassment it does nothing to protect vulnerable people or to encourage them to come forward.
(14) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(15) Public debate over the problem intensified after the 2011 uprising, with activists and lawyers saying they see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.
(16) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
(17) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(18) The buses are so crowded that women are bound to get harassed.
(19) The tribunal added that Dean's dismissal was a consequence of unlawful harassment arising "not from treating the claimant differently from non-disabled associates [in enforcing the 'look policy'], but in treating her the same in circumstances where it should have made an adjustment".
(20) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.