Sami's dog got nasty.

Sami sent the bank a nasty letter.

The confrontation between Greece and Germany has been particularly nasty.

French Finance Minister Thierry Breton recently warned the ECB about nasty surprises.

Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again, instead of the nasty, brutish past.

So that's another way in which something that is quite positive can have a nasty kickback.

Arunachalam Muruganantham The thing I saw in my wife's hand, Why are you using that nasty cloth?

The logic seemed clear suppress the asymptomatic but nasty looking arrhythmias, and you will reduce sudden death.

Further procrastination on interest rate normalization by the ECB could well lead to a nasty bout of inflation.

It's time to pay attention to Bosnia again, if we don't want things to get nasty very quickly.

And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.

Much of America is in a nasty mood, and the language of compassion has more or less been abandoned.

A particularly nasty example was the case of Fatty Arbuckle, a great comedy actor in Hollywood s silent movie era.

But nasty politics is nothing new to the US its founding era was hardly an idyll of dispassionate deliberation.

Egyptian blogger Lasto Adri , deplores how what was supposed to be a sporting event, degenerated into a nasty confrontation.

Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast.

They say, Well, it's got to be something that's nasty enough that people don't want to be hit with this weapon.

Recently, Chuvashov defied personal threats made against him and sentenced members of a particularly nasty Moscow neo Nazi group to prison.

In the words of David Victor, of the University of California, San Diego, the coming Heat Age will be nasty, brutish, and hot.

Perhaps that befits creatures whose lives are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, to recall Thomas Hobbes description of the state of nature.

Right from the beginning I heard nasty remarks from people who would openly say that I shouldn t be there, for the following reasons

And so as soon as I saw this drop into my inbox, I dispatched it hastily to the recycle bin and spared myself a very nasty infection.

But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.

If nothing nasty happens losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.

Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.

The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly and inconclusively.

Unfortunately, however, hyper rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned. Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

Then, when it was discovered that certain chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were causing the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere, the same groups launched a nasty campaign to discredit that science, too.

I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, This is too serious and solemn to make fun of. You should be ashamed, please apologize on our website.

But nasty politics is nothing new, and much of the evidence for loss of trust in government comes from polling data, which weighs responses that are sensitive to the way questions are asked.

But this was not because of a revival in business confidence. It was because of a nasty war, plain and simple, with people drafted into fighting, or into industries supplying the war effort.

There have been just two ugly matches so far, full of fouls, nasty attacks, and unnecessary aggression, as well as numerous yellow and red cards Italy vs. the US, and Portugal vs. the Netherlands.

And what I hope to show is that unpicking dodgy claims, unpicking the evidence behind dodgy claims, isn't a kind of nasty carping activity it's socially useful, but it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool.

No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a fraction of Hitler s power.

Indeed, the goal of the commemoration to help the world s citizens rediscover their place in the universe now has the incidental benefit of distracting us from nasty things nearer to home, like swine flu and the global financial crisis.

What happened happens a lot in different forms some are nasty forms that would include cursing, some are pretty innocent coming from kids who would say hello ...I am a 60 year old unveiled woman, who is not immersed in black.

Killing innocent people in order to bring a kind of rough justice to Chemical Ali a particularly nasty member of Saddam s military elite, but one who at the time of the raid was no longer in command of military forces is wrong.

So, I don't really have time to talk about those things, but I did want to put them up there, just to give you a sense that there really are solutions to controlling the evolution of harmfulness of some of the nasty pathogens that we're confronted with.

In a response to a popular uprising in February 2011, the Bahraini regime responded not only with violent force, but also by encouraging a nasty sectarianism in order to divide the popular movement and to build domestic and regional support for a crackdown, wrote Mark Lynch at Foreign Policy.

Blog politique au Senegal writes about the King of Morocco's decision to recall his ambassador from Senegal in a spat over Western Sahara It must have been a nasty blow to ego when a socialist ex minister dared refuse to adopt the Moroccan line on the fate of the sahraouis.

It's a beautiful idea. The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Blogger Undercover Dragon reports wrote a detailed report on the impact of Phet on the country, the deaths, the infrastructure, communications, and even the production of oil and gas In the end, at least as far as Muscat is concerned, Cyclone Phet was nowhere near as nasty as Gonu, neither in duration, wind speed, rain nor impact.