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"I don't consider it meddling when you stand on the side of the principles that made our nation the greatest nation in history, " he said.

But the president said he has taken a more measured approach to avoid the appearance that the United States is meddling in Iranian affairs.

Asked about the charge of foreign meddling, State Department Spokesman McCormack called it a "canard. "

Suddenly Yue drew one of his pink nebs into his mouth, while meddling with the other with a hand.

Middle measure is often but meddling measures.

The latest round of meddling does not so far signal a more decisive rejection of the merits of independent central banks.

It is only recently that Africa is beginning to come up, partly because we are rejecting external meddling.

Rising nations may decry US imperialism and European meddling and resent the west's innate sense of its own superiority.

The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling.

I'm furious with him for meddling in our family disputes.

Once seen as the bad habit of an immature economy, China's state meddling is now seen as a bulwark of stability.

This form of maternal meddling is called microchimerism.

Other countries, too, if excluded from any deal, are just as capable of meddling in Afghanistan.

Our report had been written by a group of Arab policy experts, so we were free of the charge of western meddling.

but the second was to create the infrastructure for the derivatives world, in a manner that would minimise the need for government meddling.

Like the founding fathers of the revolution, they resent fiercely any hint of Western meddling in Iranian affairs.

They are subject to political meddling, often called upon to save "strategic" jobs and regularly used to oil the state patronage machine.

I am furious with him for meddling in our family disputes.

The end of colonialism in the mid-20th century did not leave the Arabs free from external meddling.

AIG will hope that the money reduces official meddling in its pay practices and operations.

Beijing has repeatedly accused the U. S. of meddling in the issue and has warned it to cease surveillance operations in the area.

Sri Lankan authorities reject the video as a fake and accuse the United Nations of bias and meddling in its state affairs.

Malaysia's government, the prime minister and his meddling predecessor do not have long to decide which way to turn.

He thought they would only encourage bureaucratic meddling from London.

A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness.

The threat of constant government meddling and constraints on compensation have complicated the board's search for a successor to Mr Lewis.

Mr Karzai made no secret of his loathing for the meddling foreign commissioners and has cut their number to two.

He claimed that Germany was meddling too much in Opel's affairs for such a short-term solution.

During that trial, both lawyers walked out of the courtroom to protest what they said was judicial meddling.

They claimed that Mr. Hu's exchange was a "confirmed case" of Fifty Cent Party meddling.

And a true "Thai solution" would also imply a monarchy genuinely above political meddling or manipulation.

In his early years at Apple, his meddling in tiny details maddened colleagues, and his criticism could be caustic and even humiliating.

Ditching the licence fee would be tricky politically: people care about the BBC, and meddling with it can be dangerous.

Governments can be infuriating, sometimes meddling and sometimes failing to provide basic services.

The fund would be independent of bureaucratic and political meddling. Its working language would be English.

Moreover, reforms are hard to implement, because many countries designed their constitutions to shield police from politicians' meddling.

External meddling and the acquiescence by Africans into that meddling have been responsible for the stagnation on our continent.

China tells the US stop meddling in its trade affairs with Iran, after concerns are raised over a planned gas deal.

Harry was halfway toward it before he remembered what he'd promised himself about not meddling.

You two are restless, meddling, imprudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile.

Being parents, such people do not burden their kids with petty-minded meddling.

FOR a long time the public has perceived biotechnology to mean dangerous meddling with the genes in food crops.

Presumably that means not expecting a wife to stay home and put up with a meddling mother-in-law.

There is no compelling reason why Airbus should be yoked to EADS, a weak defence company subject to government meddling.

Less welcome would be continued political meddling in corporate decision-making.

A backer of an Afghan law that critics say legalizes marital rape has rejected the international outcry as foreign meddling.

The region's leaders, like the Chinese, are afraid that any intervention would set a precedent for outside meddling in their own affairs.

The threat of government meddling and pay constraints have delayed the board's search for a successor to Mr Lewis.

That's probably better than constant meddling or overbearing behavior.

Law The unlawful meddling in a suit by providing either party with the means to carry it on.

But the main motivation is elsewhere: to respond in kind to the Russian perception of US meddling in Moscow's sphere of influence.

Railing against Washington's supposed love of military meddling abroad plays well with the ordinary Russians, Mr Putin's main constituency.

The United Nations has turned from handling international disputes into meddling in domestic affairs.

As well as meddling in nature, the relationship between cities and civilisation is a central theme in Wyndham's work.

But what about this meddling senator?

If I may, your parents probably don't consider this meddling.

Prince Charles has been trained for the throne and there must be no Middle Ages-style meddling with such things.

But critics say the media commonly practice self censorship, and Chinese officials indulge in behind-the-scenes meddling.

But she has been both hesitant and meddling, and has often allowed a small cabal of personal advisers to overrule and undermine ministers.

The fund would be independent of bureaucratic and political meddling.

And he doesn't believe in meddling, that I can tell you from experience.

Deputy editor Yasmin Congar of the Turkish daily Taraf says that action signalled an end to the army's meddling in the country's politics.

Still, it was the meddling in Central Province that was decisive.

Liberals pushed back in the 19th century but Otto von Bismarck's alliance with conservative parties after 1878 meant a return to meddling.

These include reducing government meddling in the economy, labour-market reform and improving the infrastructure.

His public political address warned against foreign influence in domestic affairs and America's meddling in European affairs.

Conservatives bewail their blindness to the distortions that arise from bureaucratic meddling in the free market.

This may look like meddling, and close to tacit industrial policy, but it is practical.

Since its inception in 2006, it has suffered from delays, weary donors and claims of grave corruption and political meddling.

Getting the to-do list right is trickier, not least because misguided meddling could make unemployment worse.

So too have Eurosceptics' carps about meddling foreign bureaucrats sticking their noses into domestic affairs.

China is telling President Bush to stop meddling in its business.

China's banks too, still majority-owned by the state, were discouraged from meddling in complex products.

Iranian leaders have accused the United States and Britain of meddling.

But what can science really achieve, and what are the dangers of meddling with our biological clocks?

Another is that, given their history of imperial meddling in the Arab world, European countries should stay out of the revolts.

Later that year came the Kremlin's meddling in the presidential election in Ukraine, when Mr Putin publicly backed the fraudulent loser.

The DIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives.

What if we wake up one day and realize that the terrorist threat is a predictable consequence of our meddling in the affairs of others?

is telling President Bush to stop meddling in its business.

IN THEORY central banks need independence to insulate them from meddling politicians' demands for easy money.

Meantime, the State Department is denying an allegation from Tehran that it is meddling in what's going on there.

He actually called me a meddling kid the other day.

New research suggests I might do better by meddling a bit.

Even by Mr Tamura's admission, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) suffers from undue meddling by politicians.

Admittedly, Pakistan's governing institutions were weak from the outset, but the army's meddling has made them even weaker.

Western support for democracy in Ukraine and Georgia is viewed as imperialist meddling in Russia's backyard.

The meddling state lets multinationals in, only to squeeze them dry of their valuable technologies and then push them out.

The case was eventually thrown out amid evidence of government meddling in the investigation.

In fact, Republicans could claim to be victims of federal meddling.

And in the wireless communication system in meddling in the existing digit and analogue communication , wired.

A warning OR prohibition against meddling, touching, OR interfering.

According to an Iraqi government official, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has reduced its meddling in Iraq since Mr Obama's inauguration.

On the one side are defence types, eager to fight jihadists and angry at Pakistani meddling in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

And not to their mother, who wonders why they just won't let her help them and why she can't learn to keep her meddling mouth shut.

Some analysts blame such failures on political meddling and the turnover of senior staff inside the bureau.

Even when free of political meddling, central banking is fraught with uncertainty.

COSATU is now meddling in monetary policy too.

Global meddling is also damaging the American brand with respect to political values and even popular culture.

Nepalese say some foreign meddling is inevitable with such huge neighbors.

Lack of effective supervision and meddling from local governments led to their closure in 1991.

But it also reflects discomfort with the Fed's meddling in private markets.

Scientists are wondering how to improve health by meddling with your microbes.

Germany, France or Britain can do comparatively little to contain Russian meddling.

Luckily for the leaders, their meddling usually has a slow, erosive effect on the economy.

The Constitution makes no provision for federal meddling in education.

The Shi'ite group Hezbollah accused Mr. Biden of "meddling in Lebanon's internal affairs. "

We voted for the president we want [Mr Gbagbo], " he says. " The people in Europe should stop meddling.

At best, too much meddling in markets will condemn Europe to gentle decline.

The press must stop meddling in players' affairs and only comment on what takes place on the pitch.

The Italian government is meddling with the plan of Autostrade and Abertis of Spain to form the world's largest toll-highway-operator.

Industry and Republicans who see them as Big Government meddling want them killed.

Mr Isaias's meddling in Somalia was designed to keep Ethiopia off-kilter and overstretched.

This grit in the economic machine justified some meddling by policymakers.

Neither Turkey nor Russia wants the Americans meddling in their back pond.

Regulate inactivity, the suits claim, and there will be no limit to congressional meddling.

The big listed firms, meanwhile, are subject to meddling.

Harold asked his boss stop meddling in his personal life.

Harold question his boss stop meddling in his manal life.

You are meddling in the internal affairs of our partner countries.

Political paralysis has given rise to accusations of meddling by India.

That model was built on open market access and minimal government meddling.

Meddling is one thing but arming a tyrant with weapons is another.

The row exposed Prince Vajiralongkorn's clumsy meddling.

almost everywhere , governments can do more to free up markets and reduce their own meddling.

At 5%, the tax is the lowest in the rich world, and in the past leaders have paid a high price for meddling with it.

Jack asked his boss stop meddling in his personal life.

Google has had a high tolerance for state meddling.

And Western meddling and exploitation.

He's meddling with your camera.

Mr Johnson suggests creating an arm's length control board to oversee the government's ownership, free of political meddling.

But many of the reasons for it, such as polarised politics and meddling with state institutions, look unlikely to improve under his rule.

Having had enough of Egyptian meddling, he next invaded that country in 674 BC, conquering it all by 670 BC.

Indeed, he is widely disliked and already shows signs of meddling in politics.

Most red shirts are well versed in the palace's meddling in politics.

Mr. O'HARA: We've borne enough insults from the meddling Yankees.

My spies tell me that meddling Mechanist has been removed from the picture. I only wish I had that tin-man's shell to gloat over!

We've borne enough insults from the meddling Yankees.

Someone's been meddling with my CD player.

I won't allow your meddling to come between us again.

Put an end to her meddling.

In practice, there is pressure from Wall Street for less state "meddling" .

Although no country has a purely private market for electricity generation, in China the meddling is especially pervasive.

This way, authorities can deflect criticism they are meddling with media freedom.

But they are still subject to frequent meddling.

Who's been meddling with my papers?

Stop meddling in my affairs, it's not your business.

Butt out, OK? We don't need you meddling in our private affairs.

t want you meddling in my private affairs.

This is hyperbole, to be sure, but the threat of political meddling with independent central banks is genuine, and not just in America.

No high-profile business figure wants his job because of the government's meddling and the cantankerous unions.

But there is also political meddling.

This meddling has created a soul fall: a handful of souls that should go to Raven Queen now find their way to Death's Reach instead.

Yet Russia could react neurotically to EU meddling in what it sees as its backyard.

Such meddling is common in areas such as energy and the internet.

For example the stereotype of psychologists is that they are going to analyse you, then start meddling.

If you don't want to meddle, then why are you meddling?

Despite government meddling and rampant piracy, commercial television is surging in the Middle Kingdom

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