Sentences with phrase «described as a nuisance»

That came in the wake of demands by the Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) for the tax to be removed as the Association's members described it as a nuisance levy.

Cats don't fly, and several studies confirm that cats overall prefer to hunt rodents over birds, particularly species described as a nuisance (Crooks and Soulé 1999, Kays and DeWan 2004, Mitchell and Beck 1992).

Not exact matches

The letter describes the child as «a nuisance» to her «normal children.»

The 11 different taxes on petroleum products in the country have sparked calls on the government and other stakeholders to eliminate some of them, described by a section of the motoring public as falling in the category of nuisance taxes.

The ruling party also debunked allegations of plans to use security agencies to intimidate or implicate opposition leaders describing such as «part of APC's worn out antics of attempting to use nuisance alarm to heat up the system having failed to articulate credible manifesto to secure genuine followership among Nigerians».

Their placards alluded to the New Patriotic Party's promises to scrap a number of what it described as «nuisance taxes» before coming into power.

One adviser to the governor described Mr. Cuomo's political reaction as akin to a person who aggressively treats the early symptoms of a cold — from taking Theraflu to increasing fluids — in order to avoid the nuisance of actually getting sick.

Nana Addo prior to the December 7 polls assured to scrap what he described as killer and nuisance taxes including the energy sector levies if Ghanaians voted for him.

This research uses the NOAA nuisance flood thresholds (each threshold is locally defined but described as a coastal flood level that closes coastal roads, overwhelms storm drains, and compromises infrastructure).

For other problems (but not the carbon - 14 dating problem as you've described it), issues arise with «nuisance parameters», that affect the distribution of the data, but aren't of direct interest.

Entertaining how the NRDC played a role of some sort with one of the global warming nuisance lawsuits, the Connecticut v American Electric Power, while another of those global warming nuisance lawsuits, Comer v. Murphy Oil had wording within its documents stating «The API [American Petroleum Institute] and other Oil Company Defendants have engaged in concerted financial activity — far in excess of $ 1 million — in furtherance of a tortious civil conspiracy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — details I described in my previous blog post.