How To Use Meddling In A Sentence

  • I am for _meddling with slavery everywhere_ -- _attacking it by night and by day, in season and out of season_ (no, it can never be out of season) -- in order to _effect its overthrow_. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
  • Even worse, thanks to the meddling Tarnian magicker, that bloody boy now owned a living sigil! Conqueror's Moon
  • Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors 'land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad — which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies — and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. Explaining Darfur
  • Just have the goodness to accede to my request and stop meddling in the Amaury case. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • In 1994 in the New Territories, lineage leaders complained about urban and colonialist meddling when the government decided to let women inherit land when the deceased had no sons and died intestate.
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  • China's Foreign Ministry denounced those remarks as unwarranted American meddling and an attempt to "internationalize" a strictly regional problem. Reining in China's Ambitions
  • (Mr. Rose's meddling with Joyce's use of the Miltonic "woful" has reverberated all the way to Beijing where translator Sylvan Nathans noticed I had called Stephen Dedalus the "woful lunatic. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
  • The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
  • Police must be free to fight crime without political meddling, the country 's most senior officer said yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • A judge in Palm Beach County ruled in 2009 that Lehman had been invalidly appointed as executor of Lucom's will in Florida, making him what the judge called an "intermeddling volunteer" in the estate. The Seattle Times
  • As with genetic modification, the idea of meddling with food has left many people feeling queasy. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘You will not escape me, you meddling fool,’ she hissed out before charging again.
  • The Campus called for Jeffries' resignation, citing his nonstop meddling in student government.
  • It has never yet been explained to me what the United Kingdom Parliament was doing intermeddling in our constitutional affairs in 1986.
  • Once he found in Grant and Sherman a pair of bulldogs who ignored setbacks and would not let go, his ‘meddling’ diminished.
  • The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
  • This cannot be excused as a polite wariness of meddling in another country 's due process. Times, Sunday Times
  • This cannot be excused as a polite wariness of meddling in another country 's due process. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second single ‘No Good Advice’ is a response to critics and meddling do-gooders, and is guaranteed to turn the Girls' story several notches louder.
  • It is not intermeddling; it is upholding the Constitution.
  • It might make them less cavalier in meddling with other people 's savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • You are not intermeddling if you are upholding human rights.
  • Genetic engineering is often seen as something freakish and hazardous, as meddling with nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
  • Communist Party, making charges against us at the various congresses of communist parties, sending written statements to the different communist parties in Latin America and accusing Cuba of meddling in its domestic affairs and supporting and fomenting fractionalism. FIDEL CASTRO 13 MARCH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH
  • There are grumblers who say this is another example of meddling by the nanny state.
  • He criticized the the United States for what he called meddling in Egyptian affairs. Iran expresses support for protests in Egypt and North Africa
  • The government is still micro-meddling in business, and the abrupt flip-flop highlights their inconsistent policy-making.
  • Finland is also setting up an operations centre to combat foreign meddling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police must be free to fight crime without political meddling, the country 's most senior officer said yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • I felt ashamed that I, a pre-med student, was nothing more than a meddling bystander during this life-or-death struggle.
  • He should not be meddling in our country 's affairs. The Sun
  • He should not be meddling in our country 's affairs. The Sun
  • I suspect the cause of much of all this (if you exclude the cankerous meddlings of that fetid pile of manure called politicians) seems to be the constant drive for change – pushed on by the mistaken belief that to get promoted you have to change things. Names Will Never Hurt You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • He told Hudson that he had to understand that people who had their homes invaded felt very bad about the fact that others had been meddling with their property.
  • A year later the county magistrates do not seem to have thought his continuing obscuration exonerated them from defending themselves against the charge of 'intermeddling' with his prerogatives. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
  • Are you fed up with meddling foreign judges? The Sun
  • Are you fed up with meddling foreign judges? The Sun
  • So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet. Bits and Pieces of an RNA World
  • And we couldn't have stopped faceless bankers and bureaucrats meddling in our fight against inflation. The Sun
  • Ministers had wanted to put the doctors in charge and to stop politicians meddling, which was a laudable aim. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a whole 'nother post to explain why that level of meddling megalomania is kind of pathological for a multi-billion-dollar global corporation, but let's not digress too much. Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
  • The philosopher has since been accused of meddling, undermining proper diplomatic channels and grandstanding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tony's meddling sister Janice turns into an excellent foil and object of Tony's anger.
  • Scott definitions: "poikilia = metaph: cunning; pleonexia = a disposition to take more than one's share; polupragmosunê = meddling. Plato and Platonism
  • A country's strategic geographical position might invite super-power attention and meddling in its internal affairs.
  • That would make Tehran think twice about meddling in Iraq.
  • Finland is also setting up an operations centre to combat foreign meddling. Times, Sunday Times
  • But with the aid of a meddling foreign country, the rebellious and discontent barons of that upper part of the country succeeded in receding from Palasar to create their own kingdom.
  • Can this bespectacled family man battle meddling military officials and run a country in crisis? The Sun
  • John Stennis, the powerful senator from Mississippi, a Democrat, would later chide me for meddling in the politics of his state. The Good Fight
  • A country's strategic geographical position might invite super-power attention and meddling in its internal affairs.
  • It's time these starry-eyed amateurs stopped their hare-brained meddling.
  • It might make them less cavalier in meddling with other people 's savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The basic problem is intermeddling in the business of the internal processes of a House of the Parliament.
  • Elections should be open and transparent so there is no opportunity for meddling.
  • This whole saga has shown Central Government at its very worst - combining unnecessary meddling, pointless organisational change and petty spite.
  • But on what basis does a government excuse its meddling into the private financial affairs of its citizens?
  • Tim has a history of failed romances, generally because his meddling mom puts the kybosh on things.
  • The pond was filled with wildlife, as there were red and yellow goldfish swimming about, ducks paddling about on the surface, meddling with the herons.
  • I don't like other people meddling in the way I run this prison.
  • But, with a sly laugh, he notes he has some name recognition - due to what he calls meddling by "a faction in the government. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • And if you didn't insist on meddling in large affairs that affect the globe, you would actually be charming.
  • She also warns that meddling by ministers risks costing jobs and choking economic growth. The Sun
  • On Nov. 3, Mr. Musharraf suspended the constitution and said he was imposing emergency rule because of an Islamist insurgency and because of what he called the meddling of the judiciary. End of Pakistan's Emergency Rule Set
  • The philosopher has since been accused of meddling, undermining proper diplomatic channels and grandstanding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Senator Luger is the only sensible senator from republican side. if we wanted to keep oil price down than, stay away from meddling in middle east. Senators call for regime change in Iran, but differ on how
  • Many Cubans remain fiercely nationalistic and resentful of what they see as US meddling in their country. Times, Sunday Times
  • This cannot be excused as a polite wariness of meddling in another country 's due process. Times, Sunday Times
  • First of all, he used foam board, which is sturdy enough to withstand meddling gravity.
  • The cane toad is one example of many; our record in meddling with ecosystems is not a good one. Times, Sunday Times
  • A huge proportion of voters are making it clear they are fed up with meddling by undemocratic and unaccountable Eurocrats. The Sun
  • The gardener should be an idler, and have a gross partiality to the kitchen plots: an eager or toilful gardener misbecomes the garden landscape; a tasteful gardener will be ever meddling, will keep the borders raw, and take the bloom off nature. Essays of Travel
  • Perhaps someone with the inquisitiveness of my German friend has been meddling.
  • In the direction of the beneficial meddling of Europe, the recognition of the FARC as a belligerent force is fundamental, as it is well indicated by the insurgent organization itself, since the demential blindness of Alvaro Uribe Vélez only allows him to listen to the warmongering 'siren songs' of the United States, which at the same time satisfy his morbid obsession. Is The FARC A terrorist organisation ?
  • To them, she appeared an interfering busybody, a pushy incomer meddling with their heritage.
  • I don't like other people meddling in the way I run this prison.
  • A bouquet or two of the choicest blossoms fell on the unperturbed head of one Mr. Graves, a stony young assistant he usually carried about with him; with a second nosegay he gifted another young gentleman in his train - an interesting fac - simile of himself, being, indeed, his own son; but the full corbeille of blushing bloom fell to the lot of meddling womankind, en masse. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Julian Avenel had intrigued without scruple with both parties -- yet bad as he was, he certainly would not have practised aught against the guest whom Lord James had recommended to his hospitality, had it not been for what he termed the preacher's officious inter-meddling in his family affairs. The Monastery
  • And if you didn't insist on meddling in large affairs that affect the globe, you would actually be charming.
  • Stating that the gallery is full-fledged now, Vidya says that it has sufficient space and infrastructure to host an exclusive show without meddling with the regular display area.
  • Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility.
  • He sensibly ignored it, mentally filing it as either some kind of tasteless joke or more "crass meddling' from offshore. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • Perhaps not surprisingly, Switters, as an erstwhile cyberneticist, had some theories about the bicameral brain, its fractile reflection of a universe steeped in paradox: how, simultaneously and inseparably, it functioned both as a computer running programs and as a program being run, how its mastery of preemphasis often failed to protect it against random signals, viruses, or the meddling of -imps. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • The BBC adds: Iran has singled out Britain and the BBC in its widespread condemnation of what it calls meddling by foreign powers in its affairs. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21)
  • The Labour factions decided, however, it was no good meddling in West Lothian.
  • The philosopher has since been accused of meddling, undermining proper diplomatic channels and grandstanding. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a churchman, he was accused of meddling in politics.
  • Jack Taggart, is yelling at his son, Billy, to carefully affix all the scarecrows to their posts, while also accusing him of meddling with his equipment.
  • Prominent right-wing pundits like to portray the above interventions as woolly-headed meddling by decadent, smug millionaires.
  • Just have the goodness to accede to my request and stop meddling in the Amaury case. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • Thus the chances of his winning the game is sabotaged by unfair meddling.
  • A country's strategic geographical position might invite super-power attention and meddling in its internal affairs.
  • Many Cubans remain fiercely nationalistic and resentful of what they see as US meddling in their country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fortunately for other motorists on the busy road, there were no outrageous stunts and nobody was meddling with the traffic lights to foil the police, but onlookers agreed it was still an impressive sight.
  • He sensibly ignored it, mentally filing it as either some kind of tasteless joke or more "crass meddling' from offshore. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Police must be free to fight crime without political meddling, the country 's most senior officer said yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many Cubans remain fiercely nationalistic and resentful of what they see as US meddling in their country. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the television ad ... the apple character is named Bad Apple and is described as grouchy and sour and depicted as meddling and scheming," they wrote. Adland
  • It is one thing to contact the dead, it is another to meddle and you are meddling.
  • Are you fed up with meddling foreign judges? The Sun
  • Finland is also setting up an operations centre to combat foreign meddling. Times, Sunday Times
  • No go unplug from the computer, turn off your tea party forums and go to a library and find some archives and check out the timeline of Iran/Iraq and our meddling. Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
  • Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling.
  • Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up.
  • That could be completely different wherever this boat is, and it should also be noted that if he is charged for "intermeddling" with photographs - what's a few thousand in damages compared to the billions he has in the bank? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • You are forever meddling in family affairs, Spring Moon.
  • It is deplorable that the ruling camp is meddling in the special investigation team's probe into the $500 million secret payment to North Korea.
  • It might make them less cavalier in meddling with other people 's savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are you fed up with meddling foreign judges? The Sun
  • Government meddling and bureaucracy, to whatever degree that might be true, is preferable to unbridled monopolism.
  • The intermeddling of the defendant must be shown to be intentional.
  • The Obama adm. is meddling in our private lives way too much. Obama announces new energy efficiency measures
  • Just have the goodness to accede to my request and stop meddling in the Amaury case. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • He also said foreign governments should stop meddling in Hong Kong's affairs.
  • Like all good cabals, it is hard to know exactly who belongs to the Establishment and how Machiavellian their meddling is.
  • He should not be meddling in our country 's affairs. The Sun
  • Castlemaine: the pregnant, meddling, opinionated, rich, and still powerful maîtresse en titre. Exit the Actress
  • He rails against the Department of Energy for what he calls meddling in local energy development, and wants a smaller Department of Education, which he says is "encroaching on local parents and educators. Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • O Ppt, I remember your reprimanding me for meddling in other people’s affairs: I have enough of it now, with a wanion. [ The Journal to Stella
  • Just have the goodness to accede to my request and stop meddling in the Amaury case. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • He accused the US of meddling in China's internal affairs .
  • As with genetic modification, the idea of meddling with food has left many people feeling queasy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Neither as a citizen nor president, he added, would he “permit or tolerate any intermeddling of any European Power on this continent.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • When I heard from the old lady about Porcupine volunteering himself for the sake of Hubbard Squash to stop Red Shirt meddling with the Madonna, I clapped my hands and hoorayed for him. Botchan (Master Darling)
  • Make 'em in China, where the labor is cheap and without those meddling American protections against enslaving people, indenturing servants, and working children and where environmental standards are nearly nonexistent. Leo W. Gerard: Toxic Trade
  • Although this year's applicant pool is by many measures the most highly qualified yet, admissions deans at a dozen top-tier colleges and universities said in interviews last week that they're also seeing a disappointing trend: Too many students are submitting "professionalized" applications rendered all too slick by misguided attempts at perfection, parental meddling and what one admissions dean describes as the robotlike approach teens are taking in presenting themselves. How Not to Get Into College: Submit a Robotic Application
  • I felt ashamed that I, a pre-med student, was nothing more than a meddling bystander during this life-or-death struggle.
  • “Yonder is the witness that swore I helped to rob the California coach—a piece of impertinent intermeddling, sir, for I am not even acquainted with the man.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • The counts upon which whites have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok ', meddling overmuch with copra, which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of his power,' PEAKING, and political intrigue. In the South Seas
  • Finland is also setting up an operations centre to combat foreign meddling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jefferson opposed the government's "intermeddling" in religious doctrine, discipline, and practices. K. Hollyn Hollman: Does the National Day of Prayer Violate Church-State Separation?
  • But Mr. Wu sees the defects: a government prone to “meddling” in the marketplace; a widening income gap; inefficient monopolies; and crony capitalism.
  • This cannot be excused as a polite wariness of meddling in another country 's due process. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leftish cliches about underinvestment and government meddling are coupled with rightish promises about ‘improved choice’ and ‘guaranteed excellence’.
  • She cannot on the one hand accuse the nation's most senior lawyer of meddling in the judiciary, and then on the other hand grizzle when a transparent and proper process is set up to deal with matters of conduct.
  • And we couldn't have stopped faceless bankers and bureaucrats meddling in our fight against inflation. The Sun
  • It's time these starry-eyed amateurs stopped their hare-brained meddling.
  • This is why the average theologue, in his first parish, is like the well-meaning but meddling engineer endeavoring with clumsy tools and insensitive fingers to adjust the delicate and complicated mechanism of a Genevan watch. Preaching and Paganism
  • Scott definitions: "poikilia = metaph: cunning; pleonexia = a disposition to take more than one's share; polupragmosunê = meddling. Plato and Platonism
  • They defy the myth of public sector pen-pushers meddling in business affairs they know nothing about.
  • A retired British Army major is planning to offer refuge to companies sick of government meddling in the Web.
  • Maintenance “is officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to the intermeddler, by maintaining or assisting either party to the action, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it,” in other words, helping another prosecute a suit, while champerty is a species of maintenance “in which the intermeddler makes a bargain with one of the parties to the action to be compensated out of the proceeds of the action,” in other words maintaining a suit in return for a financial interest in the outcome. Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case
  • The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures.
  • I mean, I guess she's still meddling, but at least she's off our backs.
  • And we couldn't have stopped faceless bankers and bureaucrats meddling in our fight against inflation. The Sun
  • And if you didn't insist on meddling in large affairs that affect the globe, you would actually be charming.
  • It's a whole 'nother post to explain why that level of meddling megalomania is kind of pathological for a multi-billion-dollar global corporation Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
  • Because such consequences are hard to predict, some Republicans argue that indirect government is worse than direct meddling.
  • Officious, adj: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy, busybodied] posted by redbarren at 4: 40 PM Archive 2005-12-01
  • Gbagbo's camp rejects what it calls meddling by foreigner. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • O Ppt, I remember your reprimanding me for meddling in other people's affairs: I have enough of it now, with a wanion. [ The Journal to Stella
  • The reality is that now, even if the deal does manage to secure approval, the company will be stuck forevermore with the fruits of the politicians' meddling every time a board meeting convenes. Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange
  • Thus, there was little a well-meaning band of foreign do-gooders could achieve by meddling.
  • The disorder of the so-called yob-culture is the direct result of deliberate social engineering and meddling by the "Socialist/Liberal" ex-hippies and Marxist lecturers and their gaggle of "human rights" lawyers that squat in the Halls of Power. The Case for Civil War in Britain...
  • This is likely to provoke more anger from Hillary's major supporters, who have expressed fury at Dean for statements like this, which they characterize as meddling in the Dem primary. Howard Dean: Party Elders All Agree Race Shouldn't Go To Convention
  • He had his knuckles rapped sharply for meddling in foreign policy.
  • He should not be meddling in our country 's affairs. The Sun
  • Somebody had been meddling with her computer.
  • 'Midsummer Night's Dream': a bold, bracing wonderland Seattle Shakespeare Com- pany brings something brac- ingly novel to the Bard's syl- van comedy of wandering lovers and meddling fairies. The Seattle Times
  • In addition to that political context, the word meddling gives an audacious or severe rightness to the action of this particular poem and its fabric: In another emotional context, meddling would not feel right as a term for poetic striving for something more ambitious or more glorious? than simply to please. Slate Articles
  • Police must be free to fight crime without political meddling, the country 's most senior officer said yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • The job has lost its way and we have become demoralised, divided and demotivated due to the political meddlings of the Government, aided by the self serving and knee jerking senior officers looking to advance themselves or get themselves a knighthood. Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Gbagbo himself has said little in public since the vote, but his camp has been adamant in condemning what it calls meddling in its internal affairs and has shown no sign of giving in. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Youngsters who began meddling with the furniture and other products on display, had to be restrained now and again by the elders accompanying them.
  • Emotionally unstable, needy, self-destructive, meddling, they threaten the fabric of our civil society.
  • It might make them less cavalier in meddling with other people 's savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Certainly, there are enough of idiotic friends and corrupters of woman among the learned asses of the masculine sex, who advise woman to defeminize herself in this manner, and to imitate all the stupidities from which "man" in Europe, European "manliness," suffers, -- who would like to lower woman to "general culture," indeed even to newspaper reading and meddling with politics. Beyond Good and Evil
  • This article on energy policy shows that fuel shortages and price leaps are almost entirely created by government meddling.
  • 'Midsummer Night's Dream': a bold, bracing wonderland Seattle Shakespeare Com- pany brings something brac- ingly novel to the Bard's syl- van comedy of wandering lovers and meddling fairies. The Seattle Times
  • Most of them sit cross-legged with arched eyebrows and a look of detached skepticism, others slump in their chairs, proudly demonstrating their annoyance at being forced by meddling parents to attend a church activity. American Grace
  • Meddling mothers-in-law, couch-potato husbands, and disobedient kids make you laugh - and wince - because you share the frustrations of the actors on TV.
  • Many Cubans remain fiercely nationalistic and resentful of what they see as US meddling in their country. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the contrary, our country and our region cannot afford to persist with the current blend of directionless absenteeism, and meddling factionalism and general irresoluteness. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • His actions have a whiff of the old offence of maintenance and champerty, meddling in another's law suit for his own advantage.
  • Increasingly, the minister is meddling in areas that he should leave well alone.
  • Therefore, if you will that I take any meddling in this process, first cause all these papers to be burnt; secondly, make the two gentlemen come personally before me, and afterwards, when I shall have heard them, I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignedness or dissimulation whatsoever. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • A distaste for meddling in free trade in art remains strong, as does our desire for visual contact with an original.
  • If that were the extent of their meddling that would be bad enough but there have been dark and dangerous consequences.

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