| The law will not allow public authorities to be bothered by interfering busybodies and demands personal involvement to guard against this. |
| They can usefully protect trade secrets or safeguard directors from kidnappers or busybodies. |
| When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. |
| The occupants are not commuters, but people belonging to a category lying somewhere between loafers and busybodies. |
| It will provide a field day for Nimbys, malicious competitors, busybodies and timewasters. |
| And what is to stop lobbyists, axe-grinders and busybodies of all kinds hijacking the whole effort? |
