"That is somewhat bothersome," he added.
And all this for the sake of an issue which, though in need of remedy, sooner or later, is much less bothersome to English voters than Mr Hague made out.
HAIRDRESSING, when the young Vidal Sassoon started learning the craft in London in 1945, was a bothersome business for perpetrator and victim alike.
Oil companies use bespoke parts, rather than standard ones, making it bothersome to get spares.Reliability is "awful" says Dan Cole of McKinsey: offshore installations are working only 60% of the time, mainly because of ill-planned maintenance.
FOR most of the 1990s and 2000s, it seemed almost inevitable that the world would become ever more integrated and borders ever less bothersome.
WHEN Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, prorogued Parliament in December for more than two months, to avoid some bothersome debates, he said this was so his minority Conservative government could "recalibrate" its policies.
A firm is essentially a device for creating long-term contracts when short-term contracts are too bothersome.
They are more bothersome for everyone else and, because they are the most vulnerable, more likely to come to the attention of the police and of social or health workers.
His most vocal opponents, such as protesting teachers, have proved so bothersome to ordinary people that they get no sympathy.
When things went wrong, the banks enjoyed bail-outs from taxpayers and from depositors, who had nowhere else to go.Today China's financial system is still bothersome, but it is no longer simple.
Why should the first consecration of an openly gay bishop, in America, be quite so bothersome?
