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Even though billions of taxpayers' euros had to be diverted into the banking system to ensure its survival the banks continue to behave disgracefully, refusing to loan to small and medium enterprises, harassing households with mortgage problems, overcharging customers for going into the red by merely a few euros, etc.
One of Ireland's most prominent anti-abortion activists has been found guilty of harassing the head of Belfast's Marie Stopes clinic.
Nesbitt, then in his late teens, had put his Checker Marathon between a police cruiser and the vehicle of a woman he saw a cop harassing.
Other things that are no being banned: owning unregistered assault weapons in Connecticut; harassing celebrities and their children with long-lens cameras in California; hunting elephants in Botswana and injudicious calls to the London Fire Brigade (if you're a business you'll be fined for false alarms).
"The excessive number of e-mails has gone unabated, to the point that it has become harassing in nature and arguably unlawful," Feldman wrote.
His lawyer Sankara Nair, said Anwar had decided not to go because police were harassing and intimidating his staff.
"This option gives us leverage in a variety of contexts, particularly where multiple users begin harassing a particular person or group of people," Doshi says.
Meanwhile, on Manus Island, the security firm GS4 is investigating claims that off duty staff have been harassing women and school girls.
(In a further affront to mainland populists, Jersey's elected police spend much time harassing motorists: speed checks are a big part of their work).True, Jersey is different.
Police have also been busy watching railway and bus stations, checking up on hotels and harassing foreign reporters who try to contact members of the sect.Writers for the state-run newspapers, meanwhile, have been searching for new ways to vilify the Falun Gong and its founder, Li Hongzhi, who now lives in New York.
Obligingly, internet users who know they are being watched are more likely to exercise self-censorship in the first place.In addition some authoritarian states selectively block access to foreign websites that carry politically sensitive content, along with shutting down or harassing domestic opposition websites.
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The primary grammatical function of "harassing" is as a present participle or gerund , often acting as a modifier or part of a continuous verb phrase. It describes an ongoing action of troubling or disturbing someone persistently. Examples from Ludwig show its use in various contexts, with Ludwig AI confirming its correct usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
