But his good work was nipped due to power hungry petty politics in sport, which is the bane in most sport bodies, here. |
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At most media companies, corrections are a pox, a bane on the reporter's existence. |
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Eliot Ness was the intrepid lawman who busted Al Capone and was the bane of the Mob in 1930s Chicago. |
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The bane of the sensitive singer-songwriter is the indifferent blabbermouth at the bar. |
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An anthology escapes this bane if it serves as an introduction to more extensive study of the subject. |
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I have not the answer to this conundrum that has become the bane of my existence. |
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You have been the bane of my life ever since you were born with your whining and your constant need of me! |
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The lack of patience from their batsmen has often been the bane of Bangladesh's cricket team. |
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With promotion being the spirit of the times, football's provincialisation is considered a bane by many of the sport's pundits. |
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This almost always means advertising, the bane of readers' existence, but it's the reason most content on the net remains free for the asking. |
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I spotted movement in the grass, looked down and there was the bane of gardeners and groundsmen everywhere, a mole. |
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That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence. |
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Those bad tempered personnel manning counters in the revenue offices will no longer be the bane of citizens' existence. |
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Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world. |
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They had to be counted, bagged and labelled and they were the bane of my life. |
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All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself. |
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This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life. |
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Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life. |
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The 73, the busiest bus-route in London, was the bane of my life when I lived in Stoke Newington. |
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This issue has absolutely been the bane of my life in this country for 32 years. |
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So she is your best friend, your closest confidante, your mirror image, or even the bane of your existence. |
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Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives. |
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Even though he considered his older double the bane of his life, he seemed unable to ignore him. |
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The S2000 has no scuttle shake, that bane of soft tops, because it uses what Honda calls an X-bone frame. |
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This definitely is a bane as complaints of constipation, acidity, obesity, indigestion, etc., are rampant among the youth. |
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Pop-up adverts, the bane of most user's lives, are usually created by The Women's Association in Stockport in needlepoint, and then scanned in. |
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Laundry was a constant bane, so we washed our smalls and hung them on lines strung underneath the top bunk. |
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The book is further hampered by noninclusive language, a bane of numerous books published in England even today. |
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He noted that poverty was a bane whose eradication required even greater efforts than those mustered thus far by the international community. |
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Hockney saw the object that would become the bane of office secretaries everywhere as bringing him closer to his art. |
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This problem has a long history and is the bane of drug prevention experts. |
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The agenda is likely to focus on Syria, which has been a bane to the pope since taking office last March. |
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Bigness is the bane of any creative or responsive activity, and publishing is no exception. |
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Links lead to arnica, otherwise knows as Leopard's bane, a daisy that is a narcotic and stimulant used to treat bruises, found in the mountains of Europe. |
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The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists. |
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When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it. |
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African women questioned whether microcredit was a boon or bane. |
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A superweed that is the bane of gardeners throughout the UK could be brought under control by introducing a bug from Japan, scientists have suggested. |
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This is the bane not just of the hotel concierge, but indeed all of us. |
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Whatever the reason for inconsistency, it's the bane of managers and front offices because it makes hash of their best-laid plans and heavy spending to assemble talent. |
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So whenever I try to sing I'm back in that no-man's land that is the bane of the pubescent boy, jumping from tenor to bass and back within a single phrase. |
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In their elusiveness, well-functioning food markets have long been a bane to policy-makers searching for answers to this challenge. |
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Gynecological disorders or problems are sometimes the bane of a woman's existence from the time she is a young girl. |
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Although they brought investigative skills to the police, they also brought the bane of stipendiary police corruption. |
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A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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In fact the bane of my life was a cousin and his birthday parties. |
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She is met by a bunch of men in kilts, the bane of Scottish historical movies from here to Braveheart. |
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And I dread the admin and heap of paperwork which I know will be the bane of my life until the day I retire. |
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Trying to find somewhere to squat that doesn't reveal my nether regions to all and sundry is the bane of my life. |
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Martyrs to transparency The benchmarking bane The ECB decides Unveiled Patriotic pensions Stable but sickly On target? |
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Since the energy market is inherently volatile and volatility is the bane of the industry, companies must look for ways of reducing their risk. |
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Merchants, middlemen and money lenders have been, for long, the bane of this community. |
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This hyper-volatility is the bane that threatens most farmers, the whole agribusiness industry and, in fine, our food security. |
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The protection of intellectual property rights can be a boon for Internet freedom, but it can also be a bane. |
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Over-production is a bane of Bordeaux, and it would be easy for far more land to be taken producing almost certainly lacklustre Blaye wine. |
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Unfortunately, if the boon of mail survey is cost, the bane is non-response and the bias this may create. |
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The bane of most NGOs is running the operation dependent on cashflow funded to agencies you have no control over. |
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The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. |
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The perennial potholes, the bane of area motorists and scourge of busy road crews everywhere, are back, and this year they're early. |
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Baboons, which are the bane of farmers whose crops they damage, include the Rhodesian and yellow species, as well as the chacma, the largest known baboon species. |
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Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case. |
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However Buffy's trademark blonde hair is becoming the wolf's bane of Sarah's life. |
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Spiny sea urchins may be the bane of salt-water divers and swimmers but off the eastern shore of Nova Scotia they are now coveted as 'found money' by struggling coastal fisheries. |
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When European colonists encountered the species, they were of two minds, heralding it as an icon of the expansive West and vilifying it as the ultimate varmint, the bloodthirsty bane of sheep and cattle ranchers. |
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The egregious accumulation of conventional weapons, rooted in uncontrolled, commercially motivated transfers, is the bane of regional and global peace and stability. |
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Disruptions to schedules for no discernible reason or without explanation, however, are the bane of consumers who don't appreciate unexpected and often unexplained changes to their travel plans. |
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In English, the ambiguity and multiple meanings of the ubiquitous phrasal verb – the bane of foreign learners of the language – make it an ideal tool for making jokes and suggestive innuendo. |
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Also in Kidderminster of the A451, Stourport Road are Brintons Carpets and Beak bane. |
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Claret is the universal medicine here, and mundungus port the bane and stupefaction of all society. |
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My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips. |
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They want government to listen to their message, but ignore counter arguments coming from campaigners, such as environmentalists, who have long been the bane of commercial lobbyists. |
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This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid. |
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Though Polish diacritics, the bane of foreigners, are generally correct, Polish names often are not. |
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To be sure, had Mr Odinga won, the scourge of corruption would have remained scarcely less potent. Second, and more egregiously, the election did little to dispel the old bane of tribalism. |
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Right now, I do not want to criticise individual governments, but Europe's underlying bane is that everyone thinks they have to go their own way in isolation from everyone else. |
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Doronicum, or Leopard's bane as it is commonly known, is covered in yellow flowers. |
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Shortlisted flowers for Cheshire are lady's smock and cow bane and for Lancashire red rose and bee orchid. |
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The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy. |
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