Some Canadians are rather touchy about criticism from Americans regarding freedom of speech in Canada. |
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They often lash out suddenly and for no apparent reason, and may seem to be touchy or irritable most of the time. |
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He has become one of the oil industry's most influential spokesmen on the touchy political issue of global warming. |
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This was unsurprising, since the topic is touchy and the play controversial. |
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Hooke was a difficult man, fiercely competitive, touchy, quarrelsome, and a vicious critic. |
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In order to keep us on the straight and narrow we need to hear sermons on the touchy subjects that hit close to home. |
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Solid waste has become a touchy issue these days, with tempers flaring up at the slightest mention of the topic anywhere. |
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This bill is nothing but touchy, fluffy, feel-good nonsense, and it is doing nothing more than promoting and legislating lying. |
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During the beginning of almost any semester or quarter on any particular campus, roommates can be an especially touchy subject. |
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Miller acknowledges that fans of the first record might still feel estranged from the band and understand why fans of the genre can be so touchy. |
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Even cool Capricorns can get touchy and easily upset during the Time of the Crab. |
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Probably to avoid arousing the ire of his notoriously touchy band mates, he becomes more discreet and less gossipy as time goes by. |
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They seem a touchy and aggressive lot and none of them seem to realize that aggression just leads to counter-aggression. |
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Like other rail bosses, Mr Pollard is touchy about accusations that not enough has been done to improve rail safety in the year since Paddington. |
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And with Americans so touchy about their civil liberties, the Feds have to be legally covered to the hilt before they go snooping. |
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Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs. |
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In this kind of situation, touchy subjects are skirted and cones of silence descend. |
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It's a touchy issue, I realize how complex and personal these decisions are to some people. |
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By acquiescing to both England and Germany through the Iberian Indecision, France completely avoids this touchy issue. |
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In fact, estate agents are extremely touchy about how much they influence ever-spiralling house prices. |
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So we thought as well, but let's thank Shirley for breaking down the walls of stereotypical misconceptions about this touchy subject. |
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Suggesting that design controls might have a racial aspect to them is a touchy topic, however it is naive to pretend that they might not. |
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That can happen to rich guys, particularly touchy, thin-skinned rich guys who prefer to surround themselves with yes-men. |
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The XL2's handling is quick with conventional joysticks for roll and pitch, but not so brisk as to be touchy. |
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The city, hoping to stave off a touchy situation, tested the water, which turned out to be harmless. |
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For whatever sophistication guess hitting may require, it's also a touchy subject. |
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They've actually hit upon a touchy topic here, so the less you let them know it bothers you, the better off you'll be. |
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The natural body, the body as nature, and the nature of the body are three touchy topics in the realm of culture studies. |
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This is a touchy topic, and not just because people tend to assume that understanding is a precursor to forgiveness. |
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In any event, the White House tonight is maintaining a diplomatic silence on this apparently very touchy subject. |
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I really wasn't that stoked about getting into a touchy political discourse with a bunch of drunks I didn't know. |
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Race, class, culture and geographic divides are bridged by both laughter and fearless treading on touchy subjects. |
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She only had a sarcastic and cynical servant, and a touchy hippogriff. |
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And second, movies are a particularly touchy subject for the Hermit Kingdom. |
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She was very touchy when one brave soul had the temerity to suggest that she had made more than the usual number of unforced errors in her opening match. |
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We get touchy about letting too many of these discoveries out of the bag too soon, because we want to be the first to publish them and the leading authorities on the subject. |
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He addressed the touchy issue of European-American relations. |
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The biggest expenditure in those days was the horse feed for the fire department, a touchy subject in a town that had already burned down a couple of times by then. |
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This young man obviously knows how to handle touchy diplomatic situations. |
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Suicide is a touchy subject for the media, indeed the coroner has a full page of guidelines on how to write about it without inadvertently promoting it. |
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Residential crowding on campus is a touchy topic for upperclassmen. |
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So this is a touchy issue and may not be true for all cases of guys. |
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But could sharp elbows and a touchy personality knock out this frontrunner too? |
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There are plenty of touchy subjects I am happy to discuss with my patients and their families. |
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Lau was non-committal when asked whether he was being boycotted by the group, but agreed that reconciliation with the central government was a touchy issue. |
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Currently Ian's investigating the touchy question of whether there is any scientifically evident link between your star sign and your personality. |
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It is touchy, feel good, fluffy legislation that does only one thing. |
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The director of Bell Lawrie White has been in the business for 35 years and has seen his fair share of market crashes but he remains touchy about the use of the term. |
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From the outset, she is not sure she will survive this touchy encounter with a legendary fisherman who taught her everything she knows and is one tough, crusty character. |
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Everybody is touchy about transport, everybody has an opinion and a solution that, funnily enough, does not usually involve a tandem or a long walk to the train station. |
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He described Staff Sergeant McCann as a touchy feely type of person, like a father figure. |
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He seemed touchy and easily wounded by the hardscrabble game of politics at which Milk thrived. |
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Many people feel touchy, more easily provoked and have an ever-diminishing amount of patience. |
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In other words, I was headed towards depression. I was constantly touchy and in a bad mood, but at least I'd lost weight! |
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Indeed he is extremely sick and therefore has enough cause for gruffness and irritability, but he is not horrid and touchy. |
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Certainly, the Americans have always been notoriously touchy when it comes to the inevitable gamesmanship that is always a part of match play at every level. |
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And having tasted success, he is touchy about the movies he accepts. |
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Now that the national has gone from relaxed and comfortable to alert but not alarmed, everyone's a little touchy about who might be up to no good. |
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This explains why the French are so touchy about their language. |
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If you go too slowly, the person thinks you don't want to hug them, and you have a touchy, cranky person on your hands for the rest of the evening. |
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And while the situation is still very touchy, it can always calm back down, though this may happen very slowly. |
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It's a touchy issue when it comes to the areas that we go into, but I don't know what other way we could do it. |
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As you know, religion can be a particularly touchy issue for some employees. |
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America should join the Ottawa Convention, and be a bit less touchy about tackling small arms proliferation. |
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It has been very touchy, and I'm proud that we gave a concrete help to these people. |
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As far as migration is concerned, it should be noted that minors' emigration represents a touchy issue. |
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In order to encourage people to speak freely on this touchy issue, we accepted to keep their opinions anonymous. |
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When working with large amounts of code, the touchy subject of copyrights also invariably comes up. |
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On the other hand, we are less touchy about individual liberties and more prepared to believe that the government knows better as far as the public interest is concerned. |
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They admit that aping the president was at first a touchy subject. |
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Mr Emanuel also wants to encourage more private investment in the city's infrastructure, but its left-leaning voters are touchy about anything that smacks of privatisation. |
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This is a touchy subject for both buyer and seller. |
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Nobody else was as forthright with me about this touchy topic. |
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Drop all stereotypes of Eliot the touchy esthete. |
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The chief interest of the community is the carrying on of its life in the best way, and not in the maintenance of obsolete traditions, but the old ghosts are touchy, and may walk again if given provocation. |
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I am very much aware that this is a very touchy suggestion. |
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He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible. |
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But a father's presence in the delivery room remains a touchy subject. |
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Although it was a touchy subject, it was essential for the Government to establish programmes and to work with parents to inform children and adolescents on the subject. |
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Mr. Brown is touchy about accusations that he is a packaged candidate, and bristles at the suggestion that Mr. Caddell pulls his strings. |
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It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin. |
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What bothers me more is the touchy patriotism of adults: they prevent me from photographing beggars, or veiled women, or small donkeys, or jam-packed trams, or bearded men, or even ragamuffins. |
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Deaf to the advice of his friends and allies, the President became very touchy about everything which might appear to be criticism or questioning of himself. |
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Temperament. In every group of men there will be the sulky, the good-humoured, the touchy, the lazy, the industrious, the amorous, the loyal, the shy, and so on ad infinitum. |
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Theo became an art dealer and Vincent's main source of financial and emotional support. Van Gogh is irascible, engaging, intelligent, touchy, high-minded, well read, rebellious and pigheaded. |
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The passage around the Canary Islands looks to be as touchy as through the Four channel, where Safran originally made the right moves to take the lead in the race. |
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It was kind of a warm, touchy feely way to mention the issue. |
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Forgive me for getting all touchy feely here. |
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Second, the balance between soybean acres and the acreage for alternate crops like corn, cotton, and peanuts is extremely touchy, given what is expected to be relatively low year-ending stock levels of soybeans. |
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It is touchy feely – but you might get scratched. |
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Much lighter and half as costly, single-speed bikes like the Sass by Bianchi offer a fun ride free from fickle, tough-to-tune high-tech bikes and their touchy derailleurs. |
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But the star, 53, didn't have to act when he got touchy feely with Amal, 37, who he married last September, and then goofed around, pulling faces. |
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The adaptation of technical advances to weaponry is a touchy business, one that must strike a balance between reliance on horse cavalry and a belief in silver bullets. |
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Potty training is the most frequent cause of rows with ladies with behaviour, growth and a child's eating and sleeping habits being other touchy subjects, Daily Mail reported. |
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