Sentence examples for annoyances from inspiring English sources

AIR TRAVEL can be a succession of annoyances.

Some of the annoyances can be understood, even if only at a stretch of the credulity.

If foreign-owned manufacturers can thrive despite all the annoyances of life in Britain, why can't the locals?

Council staff report an increasing number of calls about crying babies and children playing football in the street petty annoyances that used to be dealt with by a quiet word, but which they are now expected to do something about.

In the kind of psychological shift that unnerves governments, public worries now focus sharply on petty incivilities like vandalism, loud music and public loutishness.The need to crack down on such annoyances was the main theme of two speeches this week by Tony Blair, the prime minister, and David Blunkett, the home secretary.

Rampant corruption, crony-capitalism or a weak banking system are minor annoyances compared with the fact that too many Russians are simply living in the wrong places for the economy to work properly.

To break up a country over such small, recent annoyances would be nuts.The nationalists' economics are also flawed.

And in Syria, curious peasants ride in to take a look at the Christians in the Bab Touma part of Damascus (where St Paul was smuggled out in a basket).Such annoyances can hardly explain the haemorrhage of Christians from the Fertile Crescent.

Trains on that route are much cheaper and don't take longer after accounting for security checks and other annoyances of air travel.Alitalia will need fresh capital if it is to rise again.

And what do you get for these relatively minor inconveniences and annoyances?

Even shopping for clothes, women suffer innumerable annoyances.