Parents should not punish accidents or behaviors that are part of normal development, and they should avoid teasing, shaming, or nagging. |
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I'm glad now that I had a strict Jesuit education and upbringing, including all the nagging neuroses about self-control and vanity. |
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There is, however, one nagging worry in the regional breakdown of these UK figures. |
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An idea was nagging in the back of her head but she hadn't quite let it come to surface. |
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Callie was about to shut down the file when something in the back of her mind began nagging. |
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He's 38, unmarried and stuck in a very deep rut also inhabited by his nagging, humourless girlfriend Ruth and a cat he detests. |
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They've have been demoted to faceless, nagging bandmates leaving phone messages about an upcoming tour. |
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Broke and reduced to living with his nagging aunt, Jamal gets the bright idea to put on a wig and falsies and join the women's league. |
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They can be there for a few days without the nagging spouse dragging them inexorably back to Monday morning. |
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If you have a nagging boyfriend or girlfriend who spends too much of your money, this is a great one. |
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There's the shrill nagging wife, the unbelievably smug former friend, the obnoxious bully and some tart in a negligee. |
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She'd turned into a shrewish, nagging fishwife who carried five sets of clothes around for her kids should they happen to get dirty. |
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Along with the concept, there was this nagging feeling of nostalgia for the past. |
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If at any time you experience sharp or nagging pains, consult your physician immediately. |
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Yet, somehow, this time, he had a nagging suspicion that she very much wanted to outstay her welcome. |
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Recent surgery for a nagging case of carpal tunnel syndrome was entirely successful. |
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One of the major culprits in building up tensions is the nagging thought of the accumulated small jobs put off from day to day. |
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And they burn candles and even bathe here, believing the spirits will cure them of nagging ailments. |
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For simple difficulties, a quick word of advice is often just the thing to solve a nagging problem. |
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There was a nagging doubt, however, about the seaworthiness of these untested hulls. |
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The answers to some of these nagging questions would lead me into my own investigation. |
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This adds another troublesome dimension to this nagging environmental problem. |
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I joined the team last year for the first time, despite a prolonged nagging illness. |
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Called up to the big leagues at the age of 19 in 1998, he was a nagging disappointment. |
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And there is anger as well as joy, bitter resentment as well as compassion, above all a sense of nagging grief. |
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I know little of my family's roots, a fact that causes a nagging sense of unease. |
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It replaces them with anger, pain, and unending and constantly nagging despair. |
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These nagging thoughts seem to have driven the slumberer from the warm and comfortable bed. |
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What they had experienced previously as nagging was clearly based on the fear that she had always covered up by apparent control and bossiness. |
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But I do have nagging fears about the flood of major plans for that part of town which seem to be emerging at breakneck speed. |
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We all have green goblins, those nagging wee voices nibbling away at our fraying self-esteem and confidence. |
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Somewhere in the middle of raising children and spending years together, life can become habitual and nagging, commonplace. |
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Armstead is one of many players who plan to have surgery or already have had it to repair nagging injuries. |
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Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. |
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I am about to stick a 1st class stamp on the envelope when I have the nagging feeling that it might weigh more than the 60g maximum. |
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Enron and the damage done to investors' confidence is also a nagging ache for the stock market. |
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In the months that he and Moseley were nagging their bank managers, Craker was being headhunted for a different job. |
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Garlic helps to prevent colds and expel catarrh from the chest, will sooth a nagging cough and relieves the symptoms of sinusitis. |
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Driver, however, stemmed the early onslaught with three cheap wickets and kept nagging away, swinging the ball both ways. |
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In the end, what really makes this book a page-turner is the nagging question of what happened to Gabriella Hartman. |
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No matter how I tried to get into the game, the way you pan the camera around was nagging at me at every juncture. |
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The forensic results recently released by the Dutch authorities have served to confirm a nagging suspicion. |
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On top of that, they're going to get a lot of guys back defensively who have been hurt by nagging injuries. |
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But I soon tired of the parental nagging, and the boredom and the pennilessness of teenage unemployment, and set out to find myself an income. |
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Despite regular garbage collection, the disposal becomes a nagging pain for Corporation. |
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Before it tears you up inside though, you get to live a dichotomous life of choosing to be the silent indirect condoner or the nagging battleaxe. |
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She shook off the insistent nagging of her own questions and determinedly began again. |
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The melodies have the nagging, insistent quality of advertising jingles, impossible to get out of your head once they're in. |
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These moments of disquiet congealed into a continuous nagging worry when I went to my first World Cup finals in Argentina. |
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She lends the film much-needed plausibility, despite nagging doubts that she is a smidgen too old to be playing such roles. |
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It also falls short of answering nagging questions that continue to persist. |
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It is with me through everything, providing instant distraction from lectures, boring conversationalists and nagging editors. |
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Sometimes chronic pain is just a nagging discomfort, but it can flare up into severe pain. |
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In short order, kids throughout the country were nagging their parents for the mock coonskin caps that coincidentally began to appear in stores. |
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Truth be known, the thought of first-grade footy had been nagging for some time. |
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It is, rather, the latest stage of a nagging public disaffection with the EU as a political, economic and social project. |
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She was starting to miss just hearing her mother's nagging and her Dad's firm speaking voice. |
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Perhaps most irritating of all was the nagging seat-belt warning that persisted for an annoying extra few beeps even after you had buckled up. |
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He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again. |
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The only faint worry still nagging at the back of his mind was about his dream. |
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I've a nagging feeling that I have probably waffled on about this album before, but it still makes me smile. |
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The type of person who goes out and speeds and pulls wheelies isn't going to listen to nagging. |
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Moreover, there is the nagging question of whether she is deliberately embroidering this story, or even making it up out of whole cloth. |
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Her father was troubled by a nagging doubt that all was not as it appeared. |
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He leaves home on his son's third birthday and begins a cross-country road trip to try to answer some of his nagging questions about himself. |
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There was something nagging him in the back of his mind, and he just couldn't figure it out. |
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McAuley seconded Hope's sentiment and sought in transitory embraces an answer to his nagging fear of emotional impairment. |
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There's the nagging sectionalism, the North-South bitterness that still raged a half-century after the Civil War and beyond. |
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Because he has steady employment, Nanny keeps nagging Louise to marry him, however lovelessly, for a meal ticket. |
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Other than job stress, most men say that nagging is the only sure throttler of desire. |
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The reality is, friendship is normally outweighed by a nagging seam of insecurity and self-doubt. |
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Still, the nagging sense is that people will be compelled to choose to be risk takers. |
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My wife and children had nagging health problems, and finances were continually short. |
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Jack drinks to the nagging, festering sense of regret that torments his sleep. |
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Her mother is constantly nagging her about what she is going to do with her life. |
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She was trembling, and her stomach felt empty, nagging as it did when she was scared. |
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She hears it every day, niggling and nagging in the back of her mind, reminding her that she failed. |
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However, there was something nagging about the melodies that caught my imagination. |
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But there are nagging doubts about just how durable this recovery really is. |
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I was making my way to the bathroom, when I heard Andrew ask Eden a question that had been nagging in my mind too. |
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The family went looking for the pair, but by 7pm, nagging worries turned to real fear. |
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I have a nagging worry, too, that I'll never be able to run for higher office after having this blog for two years now. |
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I closed my eyes a moment, nagging worries melting away for the time being. |
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However, as I walked on, it keep nagging and pulling at the back of my mind. |
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Industry personifies these fears, and many within industry have nagging doubts that these fears are well founded. |
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To be worn with a skirt and a perfect pedicure, of course, to deflect the nagging thought that just maybe, with all this yoga, I am turning into a hippie. |
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Instead of her mum's nagging voice she heard a deep throaty laugh. |
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The dull pain, not even a throb, just a constant, nagging ache, seems to be inside your body, deep inside, rattling your bones, if that were possible. |
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Those poor lads must be relieved to be shut of me and my nagging. |
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Kaku has little taste for unorthodox views or nagging objections, as they muddy his vision of tomorrowland. |
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Adults often have a double standard, accepting a level of chaos in their own room or desk, while nagging a child to keep to an unrealistic level of tidiness. |
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But a setback came when he had headaches, nagging pains and dizzy spells. |
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This would have been appropriate had it not been for the nagging sensation that the emptiness should be credited to the actor and not the character. |
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Dundee's skills were evident as languid Sara turned the Aberdeen defence, Caballero played devilish deft passes and the diminutive white booted Novo proved a nagging menace. |
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This has become a nagging conflict in an increasingly linked world. |
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Now I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing the tattooed one getting it on with the other one, but a nagging little voice in my ear says chance would be a fine thing. |
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And then I would return home to my box room and nagging, broken family. |
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Usually no single event precipitates the nagging feeling of discontent. |
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He battled nagging injuries in 2002 and needs to show he's durable. |
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Any more critical observations appear as afterthoughts or nagging doubts. |
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He is happy with his lot but has one major regret nagging away at him. |
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Do you ever have those days where it feels like all you're doing is nagging and chasing people up in order to get them to do the stuff they'd actually promised to do already? |
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Regardless of her well-groomed surroundings and well-defined sense of purpose, she says that early in her career she would stumble on nagging thoughts of worthlessness. |
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He had a nagging feeling that all was not right with his youngest brother. |
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He grew up a scrawny kid with nagging allergy problems in a suburb of Stockholm. |
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There's nothing like speaking out about the things you dread most, for it's a relief to unburden yourself of your worst worries and nagging fears. |
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That actually could be a detriment because he suffers nagging injuries. |
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This is specially true of the animus and anima, for their quest for completion is rendered more imperative by the nagging insistence of sexual desire. |
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I felt so unsatisfied and the empty feeling returned, nagging at me. |
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Perhaps a different son-in-law might have described her as a senseless, whining, nagging, leather-faced old whitlow, not fit to cohabit with a rhinoceros beetle. |
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But what worries me more than the predictable pushback by the president's opponents is the nagging feeling I have that when it comes to the vision, perhaps they have a point. |
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All of my happiness is therefore underpinned by a nagging sense of under-achievement, of doubt, of feeling that all of this has been fluked rather than earned. |
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I keep nagging him to get over it and get on with posting but to no avail. |
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He has to fight off a nagging urge to throw his glass at the nearest wall. |
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Would he have been considered a nagging husband because he felt he needed to further explain his position until he was certain I understood how much it meant to him? |
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Even when you had successfully performed every other task, the problem of money always remained, a persistent, nagging worry at the back of one's mind. |
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Everyone responds badly to negative criticism, nagging and complaining. |
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My head was still buzzing from the previous night's antics but something was nagging away at me, something deep inside that I was supposed to remember. |
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Things are much better now and just the nagging doubt remains. |
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In spite of what my logical brain was telling me, I think there was a nagging doubt that if I did not bank some sperm I might later regret the decision. |
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There have been too many negative headlines, plus the nagging argument that money is frittered away on incidentals while hospitals and schools crumble to dust. |
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No one has the right to ask a public servant to take on a lifelong sentence of nagging doubt, and for some of us, shame and guilt. |
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In reality, there have been late nights, late mornings and just the teensy weensiest bit of nagging. |
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According to early Buddhism, all sentient life is dukkha and there will always be a nagging anxiety at the core of one's existence. |
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The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists. |
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Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall. |
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Krich suffers from pessimism, reluctance, bellyaching germ-fear, and a nagging disorientation of being out of whack. |
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You are one of the most boring, characterless, nagging, niggling, nerdsome persons to ever draw breath. |
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The effect is doubled by the addition of dubby, nagging basslines and tight drumming. |
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In fairness, acceleration against Anil Kumble's nagging accuracy and Harbhajan's quirkish bounce was invariably the kamikaze option. |
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Jan is the dowdier of the two with Reid as tartier Agnes and they share a routine of regular tea breaks, gossip and friendly nagging. |
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Dear Coleen My daughter is only seven years old yet she has been nagging me to let her have a sleepover with her best friend. |
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South African international striker Somma was released by the Yorkshire outfit in June after being sidelined with nagging knee problems. |
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Maybe women should just leave comedy to the menfolk, and stick to nagging! |
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Walker even answers such nagging questions as whether it's best to lie down, stand still, or jump in a free-falling elevator. |
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The nagging problem is, however, a huge time-scale gap of up to ten orders of magnitude and none of the presently available approaches is able to cope with this discrepancy. |
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Clarifying as this explanation is, it leaves unanswered many nagging questions about the relationship between novelistic and religious conversion. |
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But I, for one, mourn the passing of the summer and the more relaxing days when I'm not doing the homework nagging or rousting children out of bed early in the morning. |
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One nagging fear was the possible collapse of the Ottoman Empire. |
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