Sentence examples for nasty intervention from inspiring English sources

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Controversy continues to swirl around the prime minister's literary awards with poet Les Murray criticising Tony Abbott's "nasty" intervention to share a top prize between two authors.

For example, in one study of pain, following a surgical procedure that required cutting out a piece of jawbone to retrieve an impacted tooth, women reported an average post-operative discomfort of 5.5, compared with men's 4.5 for the same nasty intervention.

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The hands-on style made public by the cables looked too much like "intervention" and "meddling" — nasty words in a country still well versed on Henry Lane Wilson, the American ambassador who overtly supported a Mexican coup in 1913 (and whom Mexican leaders accused of using private cables to exaggerate the country's problems).

True enough, but the absence of intervention (Congo and Somalia) can be nasty, too – so nasty that bien pensants can't visit them to complain.

Fast-forward to now, and western intervention in the world's nastiest war seems very unlikely.

Investors were already thinking of their comfort blanket – intervention by the ECB if the Greek plot turns nasty.

The Great Recession has not been as severe as the Depression (partly because of unprecedented state intervention opposed by the Conservatives), but it has been nasty enough – and it is not over yet.

A frequent world traveler from New York City, Ms. Mastrandrea wrote that in countries "where personal hygiene is accomplished without the intervention of paper products (to put it delicately), paper money becomes a breeding ground for some truly nasty germs".

Nasty stuff.

Nasty water".

Nasty, yes.

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