Sentences with phrase «accosted with»

We are always ready for a chat about guests holidays (or things in general), to advise on outings not to be missed or restaurants to try, but many years working a reception desk has proved that some find enquiries invasive, and dislike being accosted with repetitive comments each time they walk past.

GLENVILLE — The state Attorney General's office will not investigate the circumstances surrounding an encounter last month where police shot and killed a local man they said accosted them with a knife during a bogus domestic dispute call.

25 pm on Wednesday 7th, 2917, the Eagle Net Squad received a distress call that ome Mrs. Mariam Ofili was accosted with her 5 kids at the gate of her residence at Osubi area of Warri.

Munoz: Every time I get accosted with the issue of the «Queen of the Skies,» I say, «Have you met Miss Dreamliner over here?»

Human resources accosts you with endless forms and pointless videos on ergonomics, IT forgot to set up 16 essential things, and your supervisor, while well - meaning, manages to simultaneously overstuff your brain with details you'll never remember and fail to give you the information you need to actually get started with your job.

If someone accosts you with Augustine's question, «What is time?»

This practice was a vast improvement over abruptly handing a newborn over to a stranger who would take it to a brightly lit, noisy environment and accost it with a shot, swabbing its eyes with erythromycin ointment and foot printing all before wrapping it in a warm blanket and returning him / her to their mother.

It is fine to judge me when my choices affect you; for when my children accost you with their nipples.

When you appointment free Mexican dating sites on the Internet, sometimes you accost with aerial Hispanic personals ads.

Above Average's «Your Biggest Fan» web series is a modern riff on Saturday Night Live's «The Chris Farley Show», with comedian Rob King cornering various celebrities at a water cooler to accost them with banal questions and pathetic demands.

Not exact matches

This year, Chaotic Moon's plans to pilot its newest and wackiest drone, Tyrone — which it says «can tag a wall with spray paint, accost onlookers with silly string or deter attackers with a three - foot flame» — were foiled by the festival's new «strict no drones policy.»

I have had people knocking on my door and have been accosted at public events by people who want to share the «good news» of Jesus with me.

A cameramen from the celebrity gossip site accosted CeeLo Green at the airport — which is their version of reporting — and the singer revealed that he will soon be reuniting with producer Danger Mouse.

There he was accosted by two different women, each of whom said Peter had been with Jesus.

Some Greek proselytes to Judaism came to where he was at the time in Jerusalem and accosted Philip with the request.

In his commentary on Hebrews 4:12, «The Word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two - edged sword,» John Calvin declared, «Whenever the Lord accosts us by His Word, He is dealing seriously with us to affect all our inner senses.

Socrates accosts his fellow citizens with troubling questions.

The Blues boss admitted he was «very aggressive» with Foy after accosting him post-match at Loftus Road, and accused the official who sent off two of his players of failing to treat the teams equally.

Market Research might drum up memories of being accosted by people with clipboards as you hurry past them, head down — but it doesn't have to be that way.

As you land in Geneva you are accosted by its beauty and simplicity, and after two days of strolling around in the winter sun, we had all fallen in love with this elegant city.

«So within some few minutes he was accosted and escorted out with a lady who was sitting beside Allotey on the plane leaving his belongings.

All politicians must now wear diapers, sleep with prostitutes, Tweet their junk, abscond to a different country for booty calls, accost dudes in mens rooms...

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The process remains antiquated and reform only comes by court mandate since the guys in control — the party structure and incumbents — benefit from a system requiring many signatures and open to accosting opponents with an intricate and expensive legal process.

The 33 - year - old almost never showed up to work, and when his supervisor accosted him about his absences, he threatened him with assault — and had his father warn CEO Anthony Bonomo to make his supervisor stop «picking on» him.

«We can get credible information with cooperation from you and your subjects to accost criminal elements in the communities,» he added.

In 2 different successful operations, the Navy personnel on patrol in NNS Pathfinder accosted 2 Cotonou boats loaded with suspected illegally refined -LSB-...]

The protester, Stuart Holmes, has become a fixture of party conference season, regularly accosting politicians and pundits outside political venues along with his dog, also named Stuart.

Reports suggested the officers accosted the victim whom they suspected to be an armed robber, beat him up with the barrels of their guns and shocked him a number of times with their tasers.

An employee of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was monitoring the bird in California's Los Padres National Forest when he heard shots and accosted two men who had fired at Xewe with a.22 calibre rifle as she perched high on a cliff.

We met at The Malmaison in Reading, and a drunk old man, with the same name as my date accosted me in the hotel lobby.

Wang's sister has the same ideas and they accost her there with the blue blood Rathbone as the prime suspect.

The proverbial «glass slipper» arrives with unexpected horror when Jupiter is accosted by strange alien assailants looking to end her existence.

Schrieber brought some of his physicality to the scene, stopping a fight after a car accident, restraining a man with a baseball bat and accosting Woody Allen whilst holding a package.

It's a strange little plot twist — after all, the inciting incident of the film is literally Amy quitting the organization and feeling all the better for it — but even a film called «Bad Moms» can't spend its entire runtime chronicling drunk moms accosting security guards in supermarkets or decadently sneaking out to watch a midday movie with their pals.

On his way back to town with the hides from the last winter, trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is accosted by a band of Indians.

In a chilling opening, a young woman is accosted outside a club and injected with a tiny maggot that emits a pacifying serum.

Once beyond Harry's life with the Dursley's, which begins most Harry Potter films to this point, Potter's world is turned upside down when he is accosted by Dementors, horrible creatures that steal the happiness out of you, on the Hogwarts Express.

Single people are accosted in public spaces with demands for appropriate papers.

At the party in question, 33 - year - old David is accosted by his friend with benefits, Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz), who isn't happy to not have been invited.

Over another stretch of about 10 minutes, we experience brutal rage (when Barry is overwhelmed during a date with Emily Watson's Lena, a woman seemingly out of his league, he steps into the bathroom and kicks in the stall doors, grunting with volatile distress), we experience achingly sincere emotion (when the date ends with Lena unexpectedly calling Barry back up to her apartment for a kiss, he sprints down the hall like a man on fire rushing towards an extinguisher, underscored by strings and accordions straight out of an Audrey Hepburn romance), and we experience stark terror (after the date, Barry is accosted by extortionists and flees on foot as they pursue with hurled invective).

The manuscript tells the brutal story of Tony Hastings, a man who, while traveling with his wife and daughter is accosted by these creeps on a highway in West Texas.

Elected officials do not want to be accosted by the angry parents of kids with (or whose parents are sure they have) disabilities.

I'd never given thought to Seattle's timber - logging beginnings until accosted by a local with a flowing white beard inside a rather beat - up bar on Pioneer Square.

I hoped that was all I would find after my neighbor Pam had accosted me outside with: «Bad news for you, I'm afraid, Kate.

All you want to do is enjoy a walk with your dog around the neighborhood, without being accosted by other dogs.

Tino Sehgal's These Associations baffled many visitors to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with its teams of volunteers moving in synchronised formation before breaking off to accost passers - by with anecdotes about their lives.

Based on her actual experience, being accosted late at night by a man with a knife in the street, Hunter (a self - coined radical feminist) uses photography and text in this sequential series.

By accosting us repeatedly with emptiness, they generate an insidious Weltschmerz, imbuing the abstruse but unwelcome knowledge of diffuse cliché and contrivance.

Increasingly, this process — once an activity of concerned citizens giving up their spare time — has become professionalised, and now consists of teams of people employed to accost shoppers with direct - debit forms, and stories and pictures about the plight of animals and African babies.