Sentence examples for be picking on from inspiring English sources

"It's so they don't appear to be picking on China".

Riaz Jafri, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Targeting China Everyone in the West seems to be picking on China.

"They are saying that it's just on academic grounds, but they seem to be picking on departments without the top research rating because they can justify making cut-backs more easily".

The Northern dialect equivalent to jumping on would be picking on, meaning "harassing, concentrating on unfairly". According to a Clinton supporter, the Governor's wife, Hillary Clinton, took her husband aside just before a debate and told him: "If Jerry Brown goes off on some wild tangent against you, just remind him he's from California and what they say out there is chill out.

If an older or bigger child seemed to be picking on a younger or smaller one, others would step in and quickly stop it.

But whenever it is proposed, it is shot down as racist: "Doesn't it mean we'll be picking on young Middle Eastern or Asian men?" But one only needs to look to the Israeli experience to appreciate that, if that were the case, the system would have failed.

I know I am picking on one thing, but I need to state this.

"I don't know what it's like to be picked on for being gay.

"Sometimes some individuals can be picked on," Wilson says.

I'd say that Tridium needs to be picked on!

I didn't want to "stand out" or be picked on for being different.