| We are dealing with customers all the time and the last thing we need is our workers feeling hungry and testy. |
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| The game got testy in the fourth quarter, when seven technical fouls were called. |
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| Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it. |
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| I found him to be very sensitive on his criminal record and extremely testy in responding to questions about it. |
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| One could see Martin getting testy, but he had no choice but to answer the questions, which were good questions. |
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| She asked me to pass on her apologies for being testy in comments threads, which I'm sure are wholly unnecessary in any case. |
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| Each visit involved a long wait and at least one unpleasant interaction with a testy employee. |
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| From out of nowhere, your boy can snap from cool and calm to angry and testy! |
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| Maybe she's testy because she's not long out of hospital with a viral condition. |
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| I get testy when people put whole books or short stories or poems up on their website, without permission, especially when they know it's wrong. |
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| But he got testy whenever reporters got close to what might have been driving the deal. |
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| I want to ask you first, Ron, about polls because Roger and Karen get testy with me when I bring up polls. |
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| My escorts exited the bus and a testy female officer instructed them to walk through a metal detector. |
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| Several campers are surprisingly rude and testy when you attempt to engage them in conversation. |
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| The Democrats are daring to hope and the Republicans are testy and on edge. |
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| The minute he is questioned, he becomes testy and defensive. |
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| I've never seen a government official get quite this testy with a reporter. |
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| The Chair: This is your last question, in case you want to get testy, so make it good. |
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| Uncovering the source of a testy temper is a great place to start when focusing on behaviour change. |
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| Evaluators can also get extremely testy if they are working 24 hours a day. |
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| But in a testy and sometimes fractious debate, China was not granted the same favored trading status. |
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| And like human workers, they can get a little testy when you make them work harder than they need to. |
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| But, it has to be said that the younger web users can, at times, be a little impetuous and testy, too ready to either take offence, offend or flame. |
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| I don't blame Rosenthal for being a bit testy after my cheekiness. |
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| He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity. |
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| Ryan got testy too, playing the man rather than the ball at times, while his body language drooped as the debate went on. |
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| We don't come to this world mean and nasty to begin with, but sometimes circumstances make us just a little testy. |
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| Given her testy relations with management, it would be easy to label Simpson a troublemaker. |
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| During his first year in college, Ma made a futile effort to be sociable but ended up becoming more testy, frequently quarrelling with his classmates. |
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| There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry. |
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| In the circumstances he might have been forgiven for being a little testy. |
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| By contrast, the PQ's Bernard Landry is a shrewd but often testy warhorse of the secessionist movement. |
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| The currency will remain subject to downward pressure and volatility as investor sentiment toward Emerging European assets remains testy and concerns around public finances linger. |
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| This last area has become increasingly testy in Washington, where costly rooftop solar panels have spread alongside pop-ups in many residential neighbourhoods. |
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| In a testy email exchange on the issue, Mr Dershowitz and blogger Glenn Greenwald resorted to ad hominem attacks on each other, questioning one another's rationality, intelligence and integrity. |
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| The Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul walked out of a live interview with the Guardian on Friday, in his third testy exchange with a journalist since launching his campaign for president three days ago. |
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