Sentence examples for nuisance- from inspiring English sources

They can still occasionally be a nuisance in terms of strikes, which are hard to justify beyond a narrow sectional interest and often not even then.

At last the regulators are planning to clamp down on nuisance phone calls and "hold executives to account".

"It is a nuisance which is, or is liable to be, dangerous to health".

A key 1957 case of public nuisance stated that: "A nuisance is a public nuisance if, within its sphere, which is the neighbourhood, it materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of Her Majesty's subjects".

In truth, the occasional battering is a nuisance but, hey, life goes on.

I hope that you believe you are acting in good faith; that you are simply motivated by the need to respond to the threats of terrorism and organised crime and the nuisance of anti-social behaviour, but I wonder if you have any idea of the cumulative effect of the 15 or so bills which have incrementally removed or compromised our liberties.

Trenton Oldfield, who disrupted the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race in April this year to protest against inequality, was sentenced to six months in jail for the offence of "public nuisance".

The 49-year-old was arrested and given a notice to appear for public nuisance.

I never used violence, but I taught people how to be a nuisance".

These interests are materially based and cause problems well beyond the petty nuisance of snoring.

Hanks said the council had a "far too narrow" view of what constituted a nuisance, believing it only applied to behaviour that involved physically blocking the entry to the clinic.