Sentence examples for growing irritant from inspiring English sources

Analysts say they believe that Belarus's rapprochement with Europe is becoming a growing irritant to Moscow.

Now, with migration becoming a growing irritant in that relationship, Mr. Morales is anxious to smooth over the tensions.

American actions connected to agricultural trade have also been a growing irritant for Brazilians, who are major exporters of many agricultural commodities.

Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's leftist President, had been a growing irritant to Washington visiting Libya and Iraq, slowing negotiations for the F.T.A.A., criticizing the American campaign in Afghanistan, and, of greatest concern to anti-Castro activists, selling discounted oil to Cuba.

Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's leftist President, had been a growing irritant to Washington — visiting Libya and Iraq, slowing negotiations for the F.T.A.A., criticizing the American campaign in Afghanistan, and, of greatest concern to anti-Castro activists, selling discounted oil to Cuba.

Russia's demand for clarification of press reports about the tunnel, said to have been built at the height of the cold war, added to a growing list of irritants in spy scandals jolting relations between Washington and Moscow.

"I think what we're witnessing is a growing list of some irritants in the region that have been there for some time.

The assessment -- 45 cents for every $100 in hog sales -- has grown from an irritant to an emblem of these farmers' last stand against the rapid consolidation of agriculture and agribusiness that is driving them out of the business.

A14 Hog Farmers' Last Stand For a coalition of small, independent hog farmers in the Midwest, a mandatory fee assessed on hog sales that produces money for advertising pork has grown from an irritant to an emblem of a last stand against the rapid consolidation of agriculture and agribusiness that they say is driving them out of the business.

Don't let it grow from a small irritant into a disaster.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in noninvasive indicators as a means to detect early effects of air irritants (Bernard et al. 1992; Broeckaert et al. 1999).