(1) Prediction of the final grade in a computer course using the Computer Technology Hassles Scale, a measure of computer-related stress, was investigated.
(2) FS showed higher levels of stress as measured by daily "hassles" than did RA or controls.
(3) Major life events and daily hassles were examined in a sample of 102 university undergraduates.
(4) "I should probably pay for the Wall Street Journal but I don't because it's a hassle," said Mr Page, who is worth billions.
(5) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(6) Using life events and hassles, and hassle clusters added significantly to the sensitivity of the concurrent prediction of undifferentiated and differentiated physical and psychological symptom criteria, and consistently showed better performance as predictors.
(7) The positive impact of hassles on psychiatric symptomatology increased as trait anxiety rose; likewise, the pathogenic effect of trait anxiety increased with greater exposure to hassles.
(8) I only put a password on my computer fairly recently, because ugh it’s such a hassle to type it in every time.
(9) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
(10) Women and caregivers to socially responsive yet behaviorally inappropriate care recipients reported more behavior and cognitive hassles.
(11) Lowering of mood was associated mainly with "hassle" at work, pressure of time, and domestic dissatisfaction.
(12) This pilot study examined differences in and relationships between parent health-related stressors (child care needs and parental concerns), daily hassles, and coping strategies of 17 mothers and 17 fathers of preschool and school-age children with myelomeningocele (MMC).
(13) He has written, phoned, lobbied, picketed, pleaded, hassled, demonstrated and campaigned so that the case would not be abandoned and the people responsible for killing Daniel in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in March 1987 would never feel that they had got away with murder.
(14) With strict rules about hassling and haggling, it’s by far the most relaxing and tourist-friendly shopping experience in the city.
(15) In order for the green deal to be a success, it is critical that the government addresses the three biggest barriers for consumers – the cost, the hassle and the lack of trust in the energy sector.
(16) A multiple regression analysis showed no association between bleeding frequency and MMPI subgroups, LEI, or the frequency of hassles.
(17) But now Houston are finding space, NY are looking hurried and hassled, and now Henry is dropping deep to give away free-kicks in dangerous areas.
(18) You don’t get any hassle because there isn’t any cash.
(19) "If we want a world where everyone can live hassle-free, then everyday expressions of inequalities need to be confronted – not least as they help ease the big inequalities."
(20) Two innocent teens heading home after a game of football decided they did not want the hassle of being questioned by the cops, and hid in an electricity substation.
Plague
Definition:
(n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
(n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
(v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
(v. t.) Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, uncloned NJ12508 stock virus killed 1 of 24 hens and FL27716 stock virus killed 4 of 24 hens, and neither produced the complete spectrum of lesions associated with fowl plague.
(2) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(3) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
(4) The adsorption capacity of microgranulated polyacrylamide magnetic immunosorbents has been studied by the method of quantitative immunofluorescence as applied to the causative agents of plague, cholera, and melioidosis.
(5) Processing of plague plasminogen activator (p36 to p33), responsible for hydrolysis of Yops, required 2 h. Avirulence of mutants with inserted Mu dl1 (Apr lac) in yopE was verified and shown to occur independently of introduced fusion-dependent peptides.
(6) Their creation in 2006 marked a turning point in stem cell research , because iPS cells suffer from none of the ethical issues that plague embryonic stem cells.
(7) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(8) Attention is focused on the Railways' campaigns against malaria, plague and infectious diseases.
(9) He is an expert on the public health problems that plague El Paso and the other cities along the international border, all of which are exacerbated by abject poverty and a burgeoning population.
(10) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(11) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(12) In the natural foci of plague and tularemia, as well as on the territories outside such foci, the causative agents of intestinal yersiniosis, pseudotuberculosis, salmonellosis, erysipeloid, staphylococci and streptococci, arena- and arboviruses have been isolated from the rodents and ectoparasites under study.
(13) The infection, confirmed by viral culture, was produced by Dutch strain (Hav 1 Neq 1) of fowl plague virus.
(14) The lytic activity of plague phage II, serovar 3, with respect to 1,800 bacterial strains has been studied: 760 Yersinia pestis strains, 262 Y. pseudotuberculosis strains, 252 Y. enterocolitica strains, 166 Escherichia coli strains, 90 Shigella strains and 270 strains of other species.
(15) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(16) The sera from plague patients recognized Y. pestis and Y. enterocolitica antigens ranging from 15 to 72 kilodaltons (kDa), whereas sera from immunized subjects recognized four antigenic components in Y. pestis ranging from 17 to 64 kDa and five antigens in Y. enterocolitica ranging from 16 to 68 kDa.
(17) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
(18) Mourinho’s interest in Gomes and Jõao Mário suggests Bastian Schweinsteiger, who has suffered an injury-plagued first season at United and who is 32 in August, may be under threat.
(19) You’ve plagued her life and the life of her family.” Maitlis was not in court for the sentencing.
(20) In South Sudan, where civil war broke out a year ago, 1.5 million people are severely food insecure, while the sectarian violence that has plagued CAR since March has left a quarter of the population – more than 1 million people – displaced within its borders or in neighbouring countries.