Sentence examples for irritant by from inspiring English sources

The biggest irritant, by far — with 224,070 complaints — is loud music and parties.

First, shares in the company were sold to Time-Life, which, while humbly refraining from any direct interference, became a constant irritant by firing off endless requests for the kind of information Deutsch could not provide.

More engagement of fathers in pregnancy (a friend whose wife is expecting a baby imminently, says he's constantly made to feel an irritant by the midwives, and his view isn't untypical); an assumption on the part of GPs, teachers and nursery staff that father and mother are jointly involved in rearing a child, would make a big difference.

Judged against their promises at the Toronto summit in June, the G20 scored 64%.The report gave the lowest grade not to China, whose undervalued exchange rate was described as an "irritant" by President Barack Obama, nor to America itself, which has unnerved many emerging economies with its easy monetary policy.

Actually, the mollusk does this because the grain is an irritant and this is the reaction to ease that irritant by adding a smooth coating around it.

Four River Plate players have been taken to hospital after being sprayed with an irritant by Boca Juniors fans in an abandoned Copa Libertadores tie.

The developed formulations was considered non-irritant, by an in vitro assay using human cells from skin (Df and HaCat) with the cell viability higher than 90% and, with self-preserving properties.

Reflections on life's enjoyments and irritants by the creator of Rumpole.

Ms. Browner said that switching Gannon to natural gas would reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, by 60 tons a year, and fine particles, which are lung irritants, by 2,000 tons per year.

Detection of external irritants by head nociceptor neurons has deep evolutionary roots.

Groups like the U.S., Michigan and Grand Rapids chambers of commerce hoped to knock off one of the Republican establishment's biggest irritants by backing Ellis, while Amash's dependable conservative vote garnered him strong backing from the Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity.