Sentences with phrase «by busybodies»

If a kid CONSISTENTLY shows up in January in t - shirt and shorts, without losing body parts to frostbite, then it stands to reason that the kid is being kept safe and healthy, just not by the prescriptive methods demanded by the busybodies in the nannystate.

It didn't really help matters that I got shouted at by some busybody from the robes company for being «improperly dressed», even though someone else from the same company had helped me with the robes and assured me that I was properly dressed.

The most ironic aspect to this movie is that even when Isabelle is acting as her own worst enemy — say, allowing herself to be talked down from her latest affair with a gentle gallery owner (Alex Descas) by a busybody clairvoyant (Gerard Depardieu!)

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Why should not the choice be made by the person most directly concerned rather than by the self - righteous busybodies who torment unhappy women at abortion clinics?

For example, does a pregnant woman NEED an electric d ¡ ldo stuffed up her business by a government agent just because you or some other officious busybody thinks so?

The judge, who noted that Ogungbeje was not a party in the suit filed by the EFCC, described the lawyer as a meddlesome interloper and a busybody, adding that his application was strange to law.

In Brown's telling, teachers and schools have been descended upon by an army of «little busybodies to run down the halls and chide the teachers,» he told CALmatters, dispatched from Sacramento or, worse, D.C.

One day, after three years of submitting my first manuscript and receiving multiple rejections, I was told by the children's book editor at Morrow Junior Books that the company was going to publish my book Busybody Nora.

When Doc goes missing in 1931, it's up to Marty to travel across time to rescue him and prevent his future from being derailed by local busybody Edna Strickland.

I have to say that instead I expect them to be left rotting in place as appears to happen in the USA until some busybody organisation complains and any clean up will then be financed by the taxpayer.

Private standing has traditionally been viewed as the best way to operate our justice system because: it prevents mere «busybodies» from using up scarce judicial resources; it ensures contending points of view are raised by those personally invested in the case; and it preserves the proper role of courts and their relationship to the other branches of government.

The floodgates and busybody warnings by the airline are not surprising, says Janna Promislow, an administrative law professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.