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The lack of spell-check when searching for apps is just a minor reason why navigating the Android Market can be so frustrating.

Gerald is an executive at a big insurance company. He meets his wife, Miriam, for dinner after a frustrating day at the office.

And trying to do something with a piece of software that it wasn't intended to do can be awfully frustrating.

Linnaeus's new order made the work of taxonomists much easier, but trying to draw the lines between species often proved frustrating.

There's no doubt that the business world can be frustrating, but remember that you can choose your response to your environment.

Not being able to conceive a child can be stressful and frustrating, but a number of male infertility treatments are available.

Without some really good software for the bottom screen, it would just be a more frustrating replacement for physical keys and trackpads.

FRUSTRATING as air travel might be for the average punter, there is no let-up in demand.

We have experienced a shaky week with very slow web servers and we know it's been frustrating for you, to say the least.

Though the condition may be frustrating for Romberg, her husband Glenn told "GMA" he was more worried about her than about her voice.

Even more frustrating was that it appeared that the root cause was saturation of the new transformer design!

This delay is often a frustrating factor in cell-network data connections.

One of the most frustrating paradigms in the modern workplace is that "staying busy" is often substituted for "staying efficient. "

For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone.

But it also might be hard to get into a serious conversation with him, which can be frustrating.

Brandt decided not to testify in any other cases because, he said, "I found my time on the stand highly frustrating. "

But during the process of it, it's so frustrating not to just, you know (Bust out) bust out, yeah. . . -You know, be more demonstrative.

At first it might be difficult to understand your job or the complexities of office politics, and this can be very frustrating.

The only frustrating aspect of the conference for me was that it left many questions unsatisfactorily answered.

"It was frustrating to lose the game to a penalty right at the end of the first half and I thought the decision was harsh, " said Segura.

Most people find it a frustrating process, especially when they are not having a business motivational speaker (BMS) for your organization.

A smartphone is an on-the-go sort of device so having a screen that is nearly unusable outdoors is frustrating to say the least.

What's frustrating is that while I'm trying to get them to look into themselves, they're always trying to "read" me for the "right" answer.

"I don`t know how much time we spent wandering along the railway - it was just scary and frustrating, " said Tian.

Messy, frustrating, and more often than not agonizingly slow, India's democracy would seem to be chaotic at the surface.

Declaring himself "protector" of Peru, he spent a frustrating two years trying to persuade the country to liberate itself.

"It's very frustrating when you know you've got a solution that's being ignored, " he said. "The technology is the easy part. "

Starting off 16th in Silverstone, my favorite track, was really frustrating. However, there was a rain forecast for the next day.

He added: "It's been a frustrating time but I'm a level headed type of person. I've had a good career so far. "

Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity.

And then we'd realize that the flirty hostility is just hostility and his inability to open up is no longer exciting, it's just frustrating.

By understanding and accepting the peculiarities of his schedule, he was able to make work more pleasant and less frustrating .

It's frustrating when you put a lot of work into a class presentation, and you know your classmates are looking at their e-mails.

"This has been a slow and frustrating process. However, we have been able to reach an understanding on a number of issues, " he said.

There's nothing more frustrating than having the shutter snap shut just a few seconds before a choice streak shoots across the sky.

It was frustrating, but I thought the impasse would be resolved because no one wanted to return to the bad old days.

What you can do, just once, is to make a polite request for another to stop the behavior that you find frustrating, annoying or disturbing.

It's been a frustrating year, and you think you could do a better job than the boss. Keep that to yourself.

As we became acquainted, she confided how frustrating it was to be married 32 years to a man who often called her "a silly woman. "

It's very frustrating because the car is not competitive and then it's never running as well, so it's a bit of a mess right now.

It is not easy to memorize Chinese word meaning, stroke order and Pinyin as well. In fact, it is quite boring and frustrating .

"It's been a frustrating and difficult year, but I'm committed to my long-term health, " Woods added.

It's frustrating, because without a certain amount of self-discipline, you know your goals are going to slip away.

It was a pretty frustrating moment knowing we were going to have to come back out here and tell you that we nerfed you again.

As we bereaved acquainted, IT confided how frustrating it were to be married 32 ages to a man which frequently titled IT "a silly woman. "

I sometimes find it a bit frustrating to work without that overall context.

The most frustrating thing about the game was the fact Liverpool looked like a bunch of individuals, whereas Northampton were a proper team.

Jonas nodded. Of course he remembered. It had turned out, by far, to be the most frustrating of the rules he was required to obey.

At this point, if not before, novices discover that trading can turn into one of the most frustrating experiences they will ever face.

These breaks can be very frustrating, especially when it comes to the exciting plot of a program.

THERE is nothing more frustrating than turning on to a motorway and getting stuck in a traffic jam that stretches into the distance.

After a few frustrating minutes, I allow them to open their eyes and to instantly see what they hadn't before: all things brown.

He got kicked a lot and what was frustrating is that when he was targeted he didn't get a lot [from the referee], " said the manager. "

This means that wrestling with a challenge is usually fruitless and frustrating.

It was really frustrating, even if they were just trying to make us happy.

Yet, there is nothing more depressing and frustrating for an adult to discover despair, sadness, and fright in the eyes of a child. . .

Today, I had one of these frustrating days. Actually this whole week has been like this.

It has been a very frustrating time for me being injured and not being available for Liverpool but all I can do is wait and see.

One of the most frustrating experiences on the web and on a site is when a visitor is unable to find what they want.

Nothing is more frustrating than being pushed out of a meeting room with all of your ideas stuck on a whiteboard.

A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.

For two years, she received rejection after rejection, a frustrating process she describes at length in her autobiography.

Admittedly, the process can be time-consuming and frustrating, for it is as much an instinct as it is data-driven.

House of flowers may have been a calamity, was it frustrating branches off Whispering.

It was really frustrating to be out but I had people around me to help me through that time.

If you can pick up just a few of them, selling might not be that frustrating.

The Blue School, consciously or not, tapped into one of New York's great and frustrating economic paradoxes.

It's frustrating not playing regularly but you probably get only one chance at being at United and you've got to give it your all.

And similarly, if she finds prototyping boards really frustrating for her little hands.

Your shopping experience would be quite frustrating (but might save you some money) if none of the selected items were stored.

Travelers say those lines can be long, which is especially frustrating if you're trying to catch a train.

I don't spend time on productivity tools that may at some date make me more productive, but which today are just a frustrating time sink.

Finding it frustrating that world hunger seemed both an overwhelming and a faraway issue, she was determined to act.

There is nothing more frustrating on this earth than constantly being asked to help other people with their petty computer problems.

Do not bring soup without a spoon. Few things are more frustrating than a bowl of hot soup with no spoon.

To say that this is frustrating is an understatement.

To understand this frustrating mental process, let's play a simple game with only one rule: Don't think about white bears.

Wen makes a strong argument, and it is frustrating to see America dragging its feet and "pushing paper" instead.

When I finished last season, I thought this season would be even better, but I've had the injury and this year has been very frustrating.

You may have had to endure delays in getting paid and that may have been frustrating.

For all the narrative skill with which the author retells this grim tale, the book contains some frustrating dead ends.

And Rasheed Wallace eventually fouled out after a frustrating night of trying to keep up with KG.

I've had a few frustrating seasons, but I always try my best to come back strongly and, touch wood, up to now I've been fine.

Finding the perfect pair of jeans usually requires patience, luck and several frustrating hours behind a changing room curtain.

What makes Japan's story so much more frustrating is that not so long ago, the nation was at the forefront of change.

Not to have a moment to breathe can be frustrating, but you don't have much of a choice.

Still, Ms. Srinivasan said, the lack of government support is frustrating.

This has been a very strange, difficult, sometimes frustrating, and unusual year.

So we have had war after frustrating war from Korea through the present and we've gotten used to it.

But actually taking advantage of that market can be frustrating.

It got really frustrating, because we knew there was an audience beyond the show.

"Under Russian law, people have no access to credit and cannot take out a mortgage. It is frustrating. "

Gay and straight can be a real us-and-them situation. This is so frustrating if all you want to be is yourself.

The systems I've seen were simplistic and of little value, not to mention being counter-productive and frustrating for everyone involved.

If you travel to another country you don't know, getting lost can be very frustrating and discouraging.

Intel did not compete fairly, frustrating innovation and reducing consumer welfare in the process.

One of the most frustrating experiences in life is to be stranded without proper tools.

It was frustrating at times in my first year if I was out injured, unable to train or in the Reserves.

For the Republicans in the House, the past two months have been a frustrating lesson in the meaning of checks and balances.

2007 is a year is a frustrating year, is a failure one year, found that less than once a year.

Everybody knows that that's one of the prices you pay for fame, but knowing it's going to happen doesn't make it any less frustrating.

Steven Gerrard is determined to put a frustrating period behind him and help reignite Liverpool's season.

It was a little bit frustrating [because there was] a lot of official business, a lot of pomp and circumstance, a lot of press.

It's especially helpful when you're trying to solve a frustrating problem.

Sometimes it is frustrating trying to socialise with no money.

It's deeply frustrating that we seem unable to bridge the gap between the new insights and using them to inform public policy.

Without knowledge of these characteristics, you might find working with Amazon SQS to be frustrating and confusing initially.

It turns out that men are just as frustrating now as they were when you first became aware of their existence.

This suggested the African American faces had activated the stereotype and made people react more aggressively to the frustrating situation.

Because allergic rhinitis cannot be cured and may be frustrating to treat, people may try alternative treatment methods .

Even then the next few weeks and months are almost certain to be frustrating, dangerous and messy.

This can be particularly frustrating when mass storage is configured as RAID, SAN, or other modern technologies.

The most frustrating ones seem to occur for no reason at all.

More importantly, you can regain your self-esteem which you may have lost during one of those frustrating, lonely nights.

Spotting birds in thick forest is a tantalising business and, for a reporter with dull senses, it tips towards the frustrating.

I understood that this was intended: the game's message is that the conflict in the Middle East is indeed frustrating.

The British have advanced only two kilometres in two months of fighting. It is a tough, frustrating and bloody business.

Application security can be extremely confusing and frustrating and thought of as a 'necessary evil'.

The difference between a life full of frustrating obstacles, and a life full of serendipity, is largely a matter of interpretation.

T-Mac was so good it's frustrating to lose, especially against a bad team like the Kings. It makes me think of the game in Memphis.

It's a simple human truth-we all have to pee. Though in a urban cities, finding a clean and available restroom is difficult and frustrating.

While it can be enjoyable to get off the beaten track in Rome, it can also be very frustrating and time-consuming.

Most reviews (including ones on this site) will tell you waaayyyy too much about the movie, and that's just plain frustrating.

Until we move more decisively in this direction, other efforts are likely to be frustrating at best and counterproductive at worst.

For him not to be able to play in pre-season is frustrating for him and bitterly disappointing for us.

Learning a foreign language can be very frustrating, but it pays off.

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in.

Once you find the right developers, persuading them that the query should be fixed can be frustrating and time-consuming.

Yet Hicks still can't see it, "When you feel fans turn against you it's very frustrating" he said.

This phase can be frustrating because so much effort is being expended with so little apparent result.

Yet as frustrating as their situation is, decades of theories suggest that they simply have to let it go.

I ended up getting run out of the province, and it was frustrating and exhausting; finally I just went back to Beijing.

One of the most frustrating practices of developers is to misuse pop-up, also called context-sensitive, menus.

Love cannot be learned in isolation. You have to be around people-irritating, imperfect, frustrating people.

The process of changing from what you are to what you would like to become can be either arduous and frustrating or easy and rewarding.

And, even more frustrating, this process does not guarantee adequate coverage of the cost of production or coffee quality.

The fear of rejection can be really frustrating since it can hold us back in life. Fear of rejection is present in many areas of our lives.

The whole time you're with him, you're thinking about the guy who was complicated and messy and frustrating.

Think of at least one thing you can do to actually change the frustrating situation. Write it down.

This can be equally frustrating for those who may "look" unable, but are perfectly capable, as well as those who "look" able, but are not.

"It was an extremely frustrating period for me. "

It's always frustrating if you can't achieve the things you want, but at the end of the day you have to look forward and think positively.

One of the most frustrating historical compatibility problems is handling inclusion in makefiles.

Part two ends in an open-ended way that could be frustrating for Western readers accustomed to stories with climactic conclusions.

"It's frustrating because I can do everything but what pertains to basketball -- running and jumping, defensive slides, " he said.

However, in the object-verb world of a GUI, they aren't inherently evil , although poorly designed modes can be terribly frustrating.

It is painful to have one's ignorance exposed and frustrating to be confused by intellectual difficulties.

For some women in politics who see Ms. Yingluck as merely a proxy for her brother, that's frustrating.

Most frustrating moment: Chuck tells Blair ''it's just a game''

I have to admit that as frustrating as I sometimes find all this nay-saying, I'm also fascinated by it.

Your personal programming could become more frustrating than your work problems, and that's not what you need.

At first we were hesitant to repeat our "signature style" . . . I guess it was just too frustrating not to!

Most eyes were on Michael Owen, but the Magpies man had a frustrating afternoon and was overshadowed by Blackburn's marksmen .

It was a little bit frustrating watching them on the telly but it was good to have a rest.

I don't try to put myself down after I miss the shot, but it can get frustrating at times as well for me.

For perfectionists and over achievers this is as frustrating as a greyhound forever chasing the mechanical bunny around the track.

Short, wiry, occasionally disorganised, his frenetic style could be frustrating for those of us who were his American civilian advisers.

The four UTMs were far from plug and play, with some frustrating snags and glitches cropping up during the installations.

The frustrating habit of seeking approval from other people when you know that you should trust your own instincts.

At the moment, this is the most frustrating part of the market to invest in. Information is spotty and often of dubious reliability.

As I look forward to becoming a pioneer in this area, I am prepared for what might be a long and sometimes frustrating search.

And that can be difficult and frustrating at times, especially in the beginning.

Those who used a computer knows that frustrating moment: computer operators are no longer listening to your order about.

As millions of individuals and their families can attest, a brain disorder or injury can be frightening, frustrating and ultimately fatal.

People around them and subordinates can sometimes consider this approach to be frustrating and indecisive.

There is nothing more frustrating - or indeed more devastating to your bottom line - than underestimating the ultimate cost of a job.

Floats can be equally frustrating. Their seemingly inconsistent behavior circumvents all natural logic.

It makes you an invincible Scrabble player and rescues you from the frustrating search for the last crossword entries.

It was a frustrating time earlier on in the season when we felt we were throwing away some games when we were in front.

What intrigues me most is how women are doing this , despite a set of paradoxes that are both frustrating and fascinating .

Rush continued: "Teams were coming to Anfield, putting 11 men behind the ball and frustrating us. "

Although it was frustrating watching them miss their chances against Japan, the defensive performance against Germany on Friday was immense.

Ugh, this is so frustrating! It's such a production every time I write him an email.

This requires additional cognitive effort of the user to filter content by relationship, rendering the experience frustrating and confusing.

You can choose to see this situation as inspiring or frustrating.

What he said is frustrating.

America's political system, unlike Britain's elective dictatorship, is designed to be frustrating.

I was turned down again. It's frustrating. I guess you've got to teach me some skills.

For a soldier, that is somewhat frustrating, because we've lost a lot of men and women in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.

You need to be honest with yourself, because it can be frustrating to waste your time trying to build something you just can't.

Yet, however frustrating Cyprus may be, it would be wrong to abandon it.

Passion: Reconstruction in a devastated environment is for the strong-hearted. It is messy, frustrating and extremely difficult.

CONFINEMENT to a wheelchair is not merely frustrating and degrading. It is positively bad for the health.

Hardship, frustrating and discouraging, is the God of the destiny that changing unpredictably all the time.

These breaks can be frustrating, especially during some exciting action in a thriller.

this can be frustrating as we need to focus resources on the serious cases that we're there to help with.

The thesis firstly systematically interprets the frustrating course of the researches in scientific psychology.

This cognition of myself is frustrating and heartbreaking, but i don't think i am not a good mother.

Acne is very difficult to deal with and the scars that acne caused can be quite a frustrating and embarrassing problem for any one.

This has come to have frustrating and perhaps disastrous results once the talented young center injured his knee in February.

He was able to relate to it because he is that complicated, frustrating messy guy in his relationships.

'There's been the whole dirty Canadian oil mantra from the U. S. - it's a little frustrating.

For anyone who travels for a living, the loss of personal belongings can be a frustrating and painful experience.

No wonder that practicing scales becomes such an unpleasant, frustrating chore, both for children and adults.

School followed the silent, frustrating, terrifying pattern of the last two days.

There's nothing more frustrating to busy people than to have their mails and phone messages ignored.

It was then after such hard work and many frustrating years that we found Selam, and you see the face here covered by sandstone.

And President Obama's push for a nuclear-weapons-free world is moving at a frustrating, glacial pace.

The last half will be confrontational and frustrating. Obstacles and delays will surface. The angrier you get, the worse things will become.

After a frustrating start to the season on a personal front, you must be pleased to be back involved again?

Rooney endured another frustrating night as England opened their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign with a victory over Andorra on Saturday.

Trying to exercise too much control can just lead to frustration, in addition to frustrating the people around you.

It was frustrating at times, but I learnt a lot, with Ole Solskjaer and Warren Joyce giving me good advice.

Although the results obtained by these means may seem more frustrating, their eventual synthesis should be closer to biological reality.

Being involved in relationships that you find questionable, disappointing, or frustrating only lead to more discouragement and aggravation.

This was a very frustrating and time-consuming process.

I find it frustrating that I cannot speak other language.

My job can be very frustrating sometimes.

Furcation perforation often leads to a very perplexing and frustrating problem in endodontic therapy, often have a doubtful prognosis .

Joe Cole admits he was delighted to get his first Liverpool goal after a frustrating start to his Anfield career.

Re-doing or re-checking your work when you could just take it easy and do it right the first time is frustrating and a waste of energy.

It turns out to be a frustrating day.

There's a reason you remember those annoying songsHaving a song or, more often, part of a song stuck in your head is incredibly frustrating.

It was designed with the goal easing the more frustrating phases of moving - time, transport and reassembling furniture.

It is always frustrating when you are out injured and can't play football, so to get back out there again was great.

The whole process is a frustrating mess, one that Apple will likely try to solve by building a cross-platform search engine into its TV.

In a frustrating couple of weeks in Athens, the Dream Teamers could do no better than the bronze.

If something's too advanced, the experience is likely to be frustrating.

It's been frustrating but I have got a few games under my belt now so hopefully I can put that behind me and keep going.

I even had trouble keeping up my end of the household chores, which my wife found very frustrating.

This process can be particularly frustrating when the assignment occurs in a package other than the one in which the error was signaled.

His aging mother so frustrating is not the strenuous fight to give your face? !

"It's frustrating because I'm trying to get my degree and start my career, " said De La Cruz, 24.

It is that she gets on with it the sometimes-grinding, sometimes-frustrating business of making ends meet.

Layoffs have slowed in recent months, but hiring has yet to pick up, meaning that jobless people face a more frustrating search.

It is very frustrating for you to be there and not have anyone around you who understands you.

What frustrating is, You and I have no ability to change this social phenomenon.

It's frustrating to have to wait so long.

Fernando Alonso's vast popularity proved frustrating to the former double world champion at the Circuit de Catalunya on Thursday.

For President Barack Obama's special envoy for Middle East peace, George Mitchell, it was another frustrating visit.

"What we found was that the treatment of obesity was very frustrating, " he says.

Being stuck behind a slower car then, the race just ebbs away from you, it's frustrating and we have to use strategy to try and get past.

Vista has been the most frustrating and annoying computing experience ever. Never has a product filled me so much rage.

It's frustrating for a spell, but when your communication is finally understood it's an awesome feeling.

It's hard to stay focused when you simply don't care. If you're doing a boring or frustrating task, look for the reason why.

Because he cares so much it will be a frustrating summer for him, and that is how it should be because he wants to win.

Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, but too much of the time they can be frustrating, time-wasting, stubborn machines.

After three hours' frustrating delay, the train at last arrived.

After contending with unfair situations and the equally frustrating attitude of certain individuals, your probably wondering why you bother.

Parents across the country will all have endured a frustrating mealtime as a fussy child refuses to eat.

That wine tasting is a subjective experience is vividly illustrated by this frustrating phenomenon.

It's a given that self-denial can be frustrating. But who knew it could make me prefer to watch Fight Club again.

Multiple authentication and authorization of services are frustrating operators.

It was at best, a very frustrating user experience.

Flat taxes, territorial taxation, even a much lower corporate rate, all have attractions but potentially will prove frustrating.

Soon after acquiring democracy, urban middle classes often grasp the frustrating reality that political change costs them power.

The most frustrating part of UNIX system administration is the variety of ways that UNIX vendors find to evade standardization.

It took him a frustrating twenty twenty minutes to reach the Zaco Building, which was on the opposite side of the city's business district.

If you don't deal with the real problem first, you run the risk of producing sub-par work, and the process will be very frustrating.

If you have Bi-polar disorder, or know someone who does, you know how frustrating it is.