AFTER months of huffy hesitation and evasion, Sudan's government at last agreed this week to let some 3,000 UN peacekeepers, replete with helicopter gunships, into its ravaged western region of Darfur.
The Americans sound huffy but are anxious to clinch the deal in time to give a rare foreign-policy success for the outgoing Bush presidency.Yet success is not the word that leaps to every European lip.
But D-66 is pretty huffy about the whole matter, and may not back down.
Then, when the papers are right, Russia must convince outsiders that the new regime will apply in practice.When talks deal with the nitty-gritty, however, Russian negotiators get huffy.
In a huffy response, Pakistan refused to restart play promptly after the interval for tea.
A risk now is that Pakistan's huffy leaders drag their country into isolation.America, too, seems to be pushing it that way.
"He wouldn't listen, and in the end I had to get one of my bouncers to smack him," recalled a huffy sex baron.Although flirting and pole-dancing lessons are planned, the trade fair will mainly feature the products side of the industry pornography, sex toys and the like.
The Russians have become increasingly huffy about the WTO's attempts to make their laws and procedures fit international norms.
The know-nothing talking heads can get all huffy if they want, but we're right, and they're wrong, and we've had just about enough of this shit.
Similar huffy critiques came from the leaders of Egypt and Jordan.These countries' leaders have multiple reasons to dislike Hizbullah.
I wish I hadn't been so huffy about it.
