Officers quickly swept people westward with a brief bombardment of smoke, gas and pepper balls, which explode with an irritant.
May, the ECHR's leading opponent within government, had long found Grieve an irritant; as far back as 2011, he had dismissed objections like hers to the convention as "hysterical untruths".
As Stephen Poole put it in a Guardian review of Media Lens's latest book, Newspeak in the 21st century, it's a useful irritant, albeit one which clothes its critique in "childishly apocalyptic polemic", artlessly framing its own narrative as truth challenging the "psychopathic corporate media".
Hop features the voice of Russell Brand, an irritant who appropriately enough is about to spread like a rash over the US charts.
It does have some irritant properties, but nothing like cigarette smoke, and it doesn't have the high level of carcinogens.
Perhaps it's the irritant properties in the stage smoke that Robert West mentioned.
John Githongo is an irritant, a troublemaker – in fact, every corrupt dictator's worst nightmare.
Be an irritant to the fat establishment.
For Europe, England is an irritant.
This time, the irritant was the dear euro:"[Europe] cannot be the only economic zone of the world that doesn't consider its currency as a weapon . . . as a key asset to promote its economy," [Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier] told the Financial Times in an interview.
This must also be combined with the "irritant" effect of inducing asthma attacks in susceptible people plus an increased risk of emphysema and myocardial infarction.
