Letting frustrations fester is a real good way to ensure blowouts and fits of anger later on, so best to get it all out in the open. |
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People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores. |
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Officially, all right-thinking people have forsworn racism, now believed to fester principally among the no-hopers on rough estates. |
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Older people would entrench themselves in their positions, while juniors would fester with no real hope of getting ahead. |
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Attempts by the United Nations to broker a deal have foundered, allowing the problem to fester and become a sore incapable of being healed. |
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If you allow a small sore like this to fester, it could become a major malady. |
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They were arrangements designed as political sticking plaster, under which private injuries continued to fester. |
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Without freedom of the press, such problems will only fester, and that is not in the long-term interest of the United States. |
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In fact the evidence hints that they are as coolly fuzzy as ever, bands like this don't go away they just fester and get better in the process. |
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Putting issues in the cupboard only allow them to fester into diseased debates over injustice or elite arrogance. |
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Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the nails worked loose. |
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It reeked of mildew and mould, like damp left in the corner of a room to fester until it sprouted life. |
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In that climate of malign neglect, the bureau's ills were allowed to fester. |
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Otherwise, new injuries will continue to be inflicted everyday, while the old wounds fester. |
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Surely, it is better to let the dead lie and allow memories to fester in their own sweet time? |
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The mutual recriminations are extremely bitter, leaving wounds that will fester. |
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Instead of dealing with unpleasant things, we repress them, push them into the back of our consciousness, where they fester and breed tension. |
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He speaks of the open wounds that fester in our lives: those of jealousy and wars, and the famines and epidemics that they bring. |
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We have just had a terrible lesson in the dangers of allowing problems to fester. |
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If we don't need to discuss race then it's allowed to fester and grow unchecked like an untreated malignant tumor. |
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Regardless, often the best approach is to deal with the matter head-on, as little good comes from letting problems fester. |
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The unemployment rates are much higher there, and a series of problems fester due to a lack of shared resolution. |
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Most DTCs are taking proactive approaches to ensure good communication so that disagreements in approach do not fester. |
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Whatever the short-term outcome of these manoeuvres, the splits and divisions within Fiji's ruling strata will only fester and lead to further political instability. |
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Avoidance: Pretending that the conflict does not exist and allowing it to fester under the surface. |
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Stomach wounds fester and kill slowly if they don't kill quickly. |
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Sinclair's likely departure will raise further questions about how last week's shake-up was handled and what long-term dissatisfaction may fester among others who lost out. |
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But why has the Lebanese government let this problem fester? |
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We denied them loans, closed them off in housing projects, redlined their neighborhoods, and left them to fester. |
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I've tried to forget the grudges, the painful memories, the resentments I allowed to fester in my heart for so long. |
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But they will leave the country rudderless, the victory will be hollow, and the problems will be left to fester. |
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It is this length of time during which the allegations were allowed to fester that is so puzzling. |
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Long-standing feuds, especially family feuds, if not addressed, fester and continue to create conditions for crime. |
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The blockages tend to lie dormant or fester in the deeper recesses of the mind. |
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The divisions in Britain continued to fester, over the religion and thus the identity of the king. |
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A problem could thus fester for a long time and create a drain on resources. |
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Afghanistan presents another example of the challenge of state-building and the dangers of allowing weak states to fester. |
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This will fester until a proper open discussion is allowed by the political class. |
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The huge negative impact of poverty and homelessness in my riding has been left to flounder and fester. |
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When motivations go unexamined, issues and problems can arise and they tend to fester. |
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There are tragedies, however, which persist while nobody talks about them, which get worse and fester although they do not make the headlines. |
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Secondly, regional disputes continue to fester around the globe, particularly in South Asia and the Middle East. |
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Problems in the NorthEast, and in other regions such as Jammu and Kashmir, were left to fester too long. |
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I am not suggesting that provincial governments or school boards are currently siphoning off second language funds for other purposes, but the current accountability framework is such that it allows suspicion to fester. |
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What we can't let happen is for is to fester on. |
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However, during our consultations, many women clearly stated that violence will fester in the home, or will go underground, if it is not acknowledged and dealt with openly. |
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This is a sport that was more or less cut loose by successive governments in the 1980s, left to fester in its decaying corrugated infrastructure, abandoned to its disasters. |
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There's a fear that, if left unacknowledged, these hurts can fester. |
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Many industrialising economies share the rich world's fear of cheap Chinese exports. As multilateral talks fester, regional trade agreements are thriving. |
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So why was this matter allowed to fester since January as the security forces ignored the illegal occupation of land, the stockpiling of weapons and the abduction of women into the mosque complex? |
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Why should we wait for problems to fester before we act? |
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The entire administration of justice has too much at stake to permit any feelings of mistrust to fester and spread, thereby jeopardizing the ability of the courts to arrive at a fair and just result. |
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In such a case, environmental harm would be left to fester unremediated. |
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It cannot be partially removed or allowed to fester. |
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Butterball allowed a culture of cruelty and abuse to fester at its company-owned factory farms. |
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The Naga, Assamese, Manipuri, Kashmiri and the Maoist insurgencies continue to fester, seemingly incurably so. |
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Lil and Fester had decided to do a bit of snorkelling and had donned wetsuits for the adventure. |
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Sean Barker, Andrew Fester and Bob Hardy kept hammering away at the home defence and Mark Allen capitalised with a try in the corner to cap a fine display. |
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Kerbaul F, Rondelet B, Demester JP, Fester P, Huez S, Naeije R et al. |
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