What's the difference between harrass and harry?

Harrass


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adebolajo and his friends and family have claimed he was mistreated while in custody and harrassed by MI5 who wanted to turn him into an informer on his return but no evidence was presented to the committee in support of this.
  • (2) A few weeks ago, Jaczko was forced to take the extraordinary step of calling a press conference to deny harrassing female colleagues.
  • (3) This summary of the group's full report covers: 1) health care under apartheid; 2) medical education; 3) human rights violations and health professionals (including torture, hunger strikes and restrictions, harrassment of health professionals, the physician and the prison system, and the impact of detention on children); 4) the response of the medical community to human rights violations; and 5) concluding observations.
  • (4) She advised that your ex has commited criminal offences, of harassment, against the Protection of Harrassment Act 2003 and by cyber-stalking you (section 127 of the Communications Act 2003).
  • (5) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Pao instituted measures against trolling and harrassment, causing resentment among many users and leading some to leave the site .
  • (6) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
  • (7) Scores on the scales were also found to predict suicide precautions on the wards, harrassment of other patients as assessed from nursing notes, and indicators of violence on the wards.
  • (8) Harrassment did not appear to have affected the average number of abortions performed at large nonhospital facilities or the fee charged.
  • (9) Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said she was "deeply concerned" at the human rights situation in China , referring to the arrest, harrassment, sentencing and disappearance of lawyers, writers, artists and dissidents, and new restrictions imposed on foreign journalists.
  • (10) Since then, Chan has covered a range of stories, including several hard-hitting reports on secret "black jails" , the harrassment of Liu Xia , the wife of the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, official corruption and the grief of families who lost children during the Sichuan earthquake .
  • (11) On Thursday the BBC published a report resulting from an internal inquiry into bullying and harrassment commissioned in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, which uncovered widespread allegations of bullying and an inadequate complaints procedure which meant whistleblowers' concerns often went unheeded.
  • (12) Because there were more senior members on the armed services committee there with us, I waited until the time was right and then I told them how pissed off I was because when they have the audacity to talk about a zero tolerance policy toward sexual harrassment and violence in the military when they aren't even close to being there, I get pissed off.
  • (13) The eyewitness also told the Guardian: "A girl was harrassed violently by basij militia in Valie Asr Square where she was pushed on the ground and was taken away."
  • (14) The level of harrassment in 1985 varied by type and size of provider, but no group was immune from such activity.
  • (15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a legal letter alleging harrassment by a journalist, saying they suspected Prince George had been put “under surveillance”.
  • (16) "There is discussion for the first time of what it means to be a women here especially the systematic harrassment in the street, on buses and so on.
  • (17) Photographers have been harrassed , questioned , detained , arrested or worse , and declared to be unwelcome .
  • (18) More than half of the facilities experiencing any form of antiabortion harrassment also reported bomb threats (55-86%), loud demonstrations (52-84%), physical contact with or blocking of patients by picketers (59-83%), and distribution of antiabortion literature inside the facility (57-82%).
  • (19) Unemployment, lack of opportunity, police harrassment, and discrimination emerged as the dominant themes.
  • (20) 88% reported at least 1 type of harrassment during the year.

Harry


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
  • (v. t.) To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
  • (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (2) Each is a failure by the state to protect the young people concerned, made all the greater because the same criticisms have occurred time and time again.” Harris said his review found that understaffing was a contributory issue.
  • (3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (4) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
  • (5) People will see an increased police presence in the city centre," said Harris.
  • (6) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (7) We believe there are probably additional cases.” Police did not conduct DNA testing at the time on what little physical evidence there was in the cases against Griggs, Johnson and Harris.
  • (8) The Republican House speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together.
  • (9) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
  • (10) Harris is officially there to talk up the last eight episodes of How I Met Your Mother, on host network CBS.
  • (11) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (12) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
  • (13) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (14) Operative treatment often will be required in Salter-Harris type III and IV fractures, juvenile Tillaux, and triplane fractures.
  • (15) Could the film’s producer be the same Harry Saltzman who came to the bureau in 1951 as a newspaper photographer to take a picture of a laboratory?
  • (16) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
  • (17) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
  • (18) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
  • (19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (20) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.

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