Harass Sentence Examples

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  • We'd better watch our step, and not give him any excuse to harass us further.

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  • Don't harass, stalk or threaten to harm your spouse.

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  • We'd better watch our step and not give him any excuse to harass us further.

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  • In the Armenian prince Sempad's account (1248), on the other hand, this Christian king of India is aided by the Tatars to defeat and harass the Saracens, and becomes the vassal of the Mongols.

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  • The British advance had been marked by more than the usual destruction of war; the Loyalists rose to arms; the whig population scattered and without much organization formed groups of riflemen and mounted troopers to harass the enemy.

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  • The ordinary law was, however, sufficient greatly to harass the Socialists.

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  • The raid into the Free State failed; the blackest incident in connexion with it was the attempt of the Pretorius and Kruger party to induce the Basuto to harass the Free State forces behind, while they were attacking them in front.

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  • Faro in Algarve was sacked in 1595 by the English, who ravaged the Azores in 1596; and in many parts of the world English, French and Dutch combined to harass Portuguese trade and seize Portuguese possessions.

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  • Watching the wildlife is one thing, but to harass or destroy birds, animals or fish and their environment is absolutely unacceptable.

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  • Nevertheless, to the end of his career, he continued to harass and annoy his long-suffering benefactor with fresh impertinences.

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  • This is not to say that you should allow a collector to harass you, and this situation can unfortunately arise if a collector is too exuberant with his or her job.

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  • Harass you or use inappropriate language.

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  • If you have debt and creditors harass you, it pays to know your rights.

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  • The bottom line is teens that harass others often do so because they feel insecure about themselves.

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  • Once she learns the commands you can stop her dead in her tracks when she begins to harass your male.

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  • It's better to recycle fabrics, and no one can harass you when you are wearing fur that's been dead for 50 years.

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  • Get a couple friends together for some hot split-screen action or jump on Xbox live and harass some young newbie.

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  • I would harass him daily about it, which in turn led to us fighting everyday.

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  • The worst, though, are the ones who think it's ok to harass and fool the lesbians on the site by impersonating a woman.

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  • Night travelers should also be wary of them because they are known to travel in groups at night to harass humans.

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  • A strong detachment of Americans under General Charles Lee was sent forward to harass the enemy's rear and if possible cut off a portion of their long baggage train.

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  • Pirates in North Africa continually harass European shipping in Mediterranean.

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  • Eviction Information about the Council's powers to prosecute landlords who illegally harass or evict their tenants.

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  • The funding of illegal militias which set up illegal roadblocks and harass citizens.

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  • A great many turned brigands rather than serve tin, and together with the remaining adherents of Bourbon rule and wa lefactors of all kinds, were made use of by the ex-king and his ma ourage to harass the Italian administration.

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  • But the Dalmatian raids continued to harass Venetian trade, till, in r000, the great doge Pietro Orseolo II.

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  • As soon, however, as he thought his power secure, he threw off the mask, and began to harass and oppress the Huguenots by every means he could devise.

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  • Assyria, therefore, was ill prepared to face the hordes of Scythians - or Manda, as they were called by the Babylonians - who now began to harass the frontiers.

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  • For some years the hostile fleets continued to harass each other and engage in petty skirmishes, as if to measure their strength and prepare for a final effort.

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  • The " patriot " party did their utmost to curtail his prerogatives, and harass him with petty insults, and at last the Prussian king was obliged to interfere to save his niece, who was even more un- of popular than her weak husband, from being driven from the country.

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  • He planned the expeditions against Canada under Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold, and sent out privateers to harass British commerce.

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  • The Confederates, naturally anxious to harass the commerce of their enemies, endeavotired from the commencement of hostilities to purchase armed cruisers from builders of neutral nations.

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  • In the absence of any effective Spanish force on the coast he was able to harass the enemy, and to capture the town of Paita on the 13th-15th of November 1741.

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  • From the end of August 1626 the city was blockaded, and in the meantime Polish irregulars, under the capable Stanislaus Koniecpolski, began to harass the Swedes.

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  • There was to be an end to the power of the courts of Paris to harass the duke of Aquitaine, by using the rights of the suzerain to interfere with the vassals subjects.

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  • This tradition, together with the advice of Alcibiades, led the Spartans to fortify Decelea as a basis for permanent occupation in Attica during the later years of the Peloponnesian War, from 413-404 B.C. Its position enabled them to harass the Athenians constantly, and to form a centre for fugitive slaves and other deserters.

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  • Unfortunately, bisexuals and lesbians are often the target of either homophobic abusers (who log onto the sites in order to harass the members) or men who are pretending to be women for sexual gratification.

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