Sentence examples for unwelcome activity from inspiring English sources

Too often initiatives by churches, charities and community groups are stifled by state agencies as if they were some kind of unwelcome activity they can't control.

(F, 4/06) Second, residents tried to keep the roads clean, albeit unwelcome activity, as they reminisced about street-sweepers that used to service the area.

Rhodes saw Lippert's activities as unwelcome meddling and so repeatedly tried (and failed) to settle with him.

North Korea's nuclear activity is an unwelcome challenge but Tony says only China has the kind of influence to get them to scale back -- and they've chose not to pull those strings.

In Chinese journalism, an emphasis on party leaders' activities trumps reporting unwelcome facts, which can be suppressed.

At age 18 Gomberg migrated with his family to the United States because his father's antitsarist activities made them unwelcome in Russia.

(White female 59 years) Some participants saw PLANS as only promoting social activity which could be an unwelcome intrusion.

Senior managers who made disastrous decisions over Jimmy Savile or whose external activities exposed the BBC to lengthy unwelcome publicity (such as Alan Yentob's chairmanship of the collapsed charity Kid's Company) have been protected and defended by the hierarchy.

You know that excruciating experience of getting a song gets stuck in your head, giving whatever activities you're occupied with an unwelcome soundtrack?

Anyone planning to commit crime at Carnival is unwelcome and people can expect to see further police activity of this nature right up until the weekend.

They cited bus schedules that don't accommodate after-school activities, crowded classrooms, students feeling anxious and unwelcome.