Word: annoyances
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...from the minaret's upper reaches, where a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day with the age-old words "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). The first call is at 5:30 a.m., "but the muezzin tries to keep the volume down so as not to annoy the neighbors," Ruiz says. The neighbors have mixed feelings about the mosque. "We need to put the past behind us and think how we can work together in these difficult times," says Sister María, a nun visiting Granada from her home near Madrid. But her more cloistered sisters...
...worked. Medallions of his fur-capped head were struck, engravings were hung in homes, and his likeness graced snuffboxes and signet rings. The fad went so far as to mildly annoy, though still amuse, King Louis XVI himself. He gave a lady of his court, who had bored him often with her praise of Franklin, a Sevres porcelain chamber pot with Franklin's cameo embossed inside. Neither the King nor his ministers were instinctive champions of America's desire, which they correctly feared might prove contagious, to cast off hereditary monarchs. But the combination of Franklin's realist and idealist...
...mail that you might otherwise miss. Once you activate Suspect Mail Blocking, your personal address book becomes your white list (EarthLink's version of AOL's allow list). Rather than block new senders entirely, EarthLink sends them a "challenge response" that will effectively cut off bulk mailers--and probably annoy some friends in the process. You can request daily or weekly reports that list the headers from messages that have been held up, giving you a chance to okay delivery. And you can set your mail preferences to automatically white-list new people you send mail...
...doing it quite so much. In theory, the CD of the future will be smart enough to let its owner make one copy of a song for the computer, one for the iPod, and maybe burn an extra for the car, but that's it. But even that might annoy consumers who are used to making as many copies as they want. Even if the smart CD of the future becomes a reality, to work at all it will have to work absolutely perfectly. If just one copy leaks onto Kazaa, anywhere in the world, millions of people can have...
According to page 309 of the Student Handbook, “Students are requested not to engage on College property in any games that might annoy others, cause damage, or injure passersby.” This vague prohibition has come to encompass football, frisbee and other throwing games, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and bicycling...