• "There are people who are waiting with an answer and it's a political answer and it's a nasty one, " he added.

    BBC: Trevor Phillips

  • Nick Carle demonstrated his side's determination with two tough challenges in quick succession, but he was lucky to get away his first, a nasty one on Ben Watson.

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  • "Steven Naismith looked to get a nasty one right at the end of the game to his shoulder but we'll just need to wait and see how they are, " added Smith.

    BBC: Morale-boosting win for Rangers manager Walter Smith

  • In light of this, the fate awaiting those astronomically paid bankers could be a particularly nasty one.

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  • With the economy in recession, quite possibly a long, nasty one, perhaps the last places many investors want to be is in stocks that depend on free-spending consumers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It also means that whereas population growth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.

    ECONOMIST: A Survey of the 20th Century

  • Women, it seems, choose not the kind of smell they would like on a partner, or even one that might mask a nasty odour of their own, but rather something that matches their MHC.

    ECONOMIST: Perfume science

  • We need to protect young people and make sure they have a full and productive life, not a nasty, brutal and short one.

    BBC: Nottingham gang culture poses 'significant challenge'

  • The realpolitik view: if it is right for a rich, powerful, democratic nation to conquer a poor, weak, nasty one and force it to become democratic, why start with Iraq?

    ECONOMIST: Was war warranted?

  • Israel now is fighting for its future in a nasty two-front war: One against Hamas in Gaza and the other against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

    FORBES: Iran Is Winning The Chess Match

  • No 17th-century subjugation by a nasty Dutch colonizer of Javanese (let alone one by a brutish Chinese emperor of "barbarians" ) can be compared with the conquest - with its associated rapes, bayonetings and beheadings - by the Japanese.

    CNN: The Drugs Tide

  • So how can you overcome this nasty little devil of a roadblock and avoid becoming one of those depressing statistics on failure rates of startup businesses?

    FORBES: 7 Deadly Roadblocks for Startup Entrepreneurs

  • Despite all the usual guff about the USA being "a grand experiment in compromise", this is now a rather nasty game of chicken, and no-one wants to look yellow to their own political base.

    BBC: Low viciousness and high drama

  • In an unremarkable office building one floor above, Edward Anderson ignores a nasty head cold and scrutinizes the expense budgets of a handful of private companies.

    FORBES: Cool Heads

  • In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.

    CNN: Mark Milian,

  • To bend a term that comes to us courtesy of Iraq's Saddam Hussein (surely a candidate for the top 10 of any world list of the powerful and nasty), 1975 was the mother of all years -- the one that in a sense gave birth to modern Asia.

    CNN: Power Plays, '75

  • Despite one heated exchange with Tom Elliott, the programme will be remembered as one in which Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness played a "nice man, not at all nasty man" double act.

    BBC: NI election Leaders Debate: last word from party heads

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