Sentence examples for given a hard time over from inspiring English sources
Both the House speaker, Michael Madigan (father of the new state attorney-general), and the former House minority leader, Lee Daniels, are being given a hard time over allegations that they used state employees in their political campaigns.Getting a name as a political reformer makes sense for the new governor not least because it does not cost money.
God was given a hard time recently in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, coming over as little more than a washed-up irrelevance.
It is certainly true that the press has given her a hard time over the years.
It's much harder to give a hard time to someone who is dressed sweetly over someone dressed sloppily.
Furthermore, the characteristics of the feed are almost always changing over time, upsetting the process and giving a hard time to the stabilizing controllers.
Prof Phillipe Sands QC, the combative academic lawyer who gave Tony Blair a hard time over the 2003 Iraq war, says we were not given enough information by Cameron to make a proper judgment.
There are now daily flights between the two countries, and the Chinese Embassy doesn't give people a hard time over visas.
The Ukip leader made the comments in an ITV debate with young voters, who gave him a hard time over his party's policies on immigration, his privately educated background, and the wealth of the party's former treasurer.
It's no wonder, therefore, that his political opponents are giving him a hard time over his role in the sale of the site of a now defunct fire station just south of the Thames.
I really gave myself a hard time over it, in the belief that if I was remotely good at the end of it, it was worth all the pain and anguish and shit I'd been through.
