My suspicion is that most people attribute that kind of intrusiveness and presumption as intrinsic to AOL's corporate culture. From Wordnik.com. [Antisocial Behavior - Anil Dash] Reference
In making the "intrusiveness" argument, Cameron is probably drawing on a dimly remembered era in Tory folk memory when feminists bestrode the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Child benefit and binocular man] Reference
He bluntly declared NATO must cut back the "intrusiveness". From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
He bluntly declared NATO must cut back the "intrusiveness" of its forces. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
He also made it clear that Pakistan's solutions for guarding its nuclear assets were home-grown and did not allow "intrusiveness" by any state. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference
This kind of intrusiveness is not merely becoming more common, it’s becoming impossible to resist. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Creepy-Tech] Reference
As I noted, the problem is that this kind of intrusiveness is not merely becoming more common, it’s becoming impossible to resist. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Creepy-Tech] Reference
The trend from non-intrusiveness to wholesale invasiveness is clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Encroachment of the Public] Reference
Mark Zuckerberg ate crow for Project Beacon's intrusiveness last week. From Wordnik.com. [Media Bizz Buzz.com for December 10, 2007] Reference
There's too much intrusiveness of a moderator saying, OK, that's enough, hush up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008] Reference
I want the thrusting intrusiveness, the interjection, of another's serious speech. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Libertarian conservatives seek to reduce the size, cost, and intrusiveness of government. From Wordnik.com. [The Conservative Takeover of the Libertarian Party] Reference
When government bashers yell about "bigness," they may mean intrusiveness rather than size. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: Fable Vs. Fact] Reference
Perhaps more important, we are streamlining the government, reducing its size and intrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [President Et Al On Middle Class Bill Of Rights] Reference
HEWITT: I do regret that the amount of intrusiveness into private life and lives by the -- by the media. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2003] Reference
Were legal discourse more accessible to the lay public, the country would not stand for such intrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Shahid Buttar: Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)] Reference
Microsoft learned from that and they dialed back the intrusiveness of the user account control in Windows 7. From Wordnik.com. [Get The Most From Windows 7] Reference
The internet has been powerful - but is still dwarfed by televisions intrusiveness and ability to sway the masses. From Wordnik.com. [Are Mainstream Media Covering 21st Century Freedom Riders Fighting For Health Care Civil Rights & Ending Wars] Reference
In the 1970s and '80s, the federal speed limit was a daily reminder of the intrusiveness of nanny-state regulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Insanity of Drive-55 Laws] Reference
But isn't golf, with its slo-mo rhythms and sylvan seclusion, supposed to be a refuge from such modern intrusiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [Nowhere to Hide -- for Now] Reference
These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
And I think there's kind of an intrusiveness in journalism, particularly in Washington, you know, around the Beltway stuff. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2001] Reference
Rather, it is the weight and intrusiveness of H.R. 3200 that reveals just how deeply into our lives government would meddle. From Wordnik.com. [Why Are the Democrats Losing on Health Care?] Reference
South Africa was in danger of sliding back into apartheid-style state intrusiveness, the SA Institute of Race Relations said in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Frankly, I would take the union and skip the ceremony, but for all the intrusiveness of government when relationship dissolves. From Wordnik.com. [Christians Aren't Going Away and Neither Are Gays] Reference
The court then balanced the need to search against the intrusiveness of the search, and ruled that what Savoy did was permissible. From Wordnik.com. [Appeals Court Misfired in Hack-Counterhack Dispute] Reference
Meanwhile, some early tactics used to gain wide reach are being eliminated by Facebook because their intrusiveness drew complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Some Facebook Applications Thrive,] Reference
Nothing in the declaration itself requires the level of intrusiveness and trampling on rights that the implementation is insisting on. From Wordnik.com. [David Michaelson and Joy Romanski: My Wife Faces Homeland Security Part I] Reference
Indeed, the Green Dam plan appears to have widened public interest in China in questions about government intrusiveness and censorship. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Delay Plan for Censor Software] Reference
I am glad for my kids, but feeling increasingly uncomfortable at what seems to me to be some intrusiveness on her part, or stepping over boundaries. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Amy] Reference
Even in chaos and near collapse, the Republicans still had a message that was coherent and popular: reduce the size and intrusiveness of government. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemplative Bomb-Thrower] Reference
In the real world, however, they are a vehicle for more and more government intrusiveness and, ultimately, for a de facto takeover of private insurers. From Wordnik.com. [Starting to Heal This Sick Bill] Reference
But those so inclined could view the fly that penetrated the air-conditioned sanctuary as a metaphor for nature and the intrusiveness of the environment. From Wordnik.com. [Water, War and Politics] Reference
His presumptive intrusiveness made her angry, but mixed with the anger was the tempering loneliness and the offer of the confidant she had needed for so long. From Wordnik.com. [Eve's Rib]
Many forces -- from the money chase, to the party realignments, to the intrusiveness of 24-hour media -- have weakened the institutional bonds of that Senate. From Wordnik.com. [A question for David Broder: Who's to blame?] Reference
Or is it just that people are more worried about what goes in their bodies than they are about getting the government back to Gilded Age levels of intrusiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Ozersky Takes Issue With Restaurant Letter Grading] Reference
The president is in the midst of a radical re-alignment of the powers of the government and its intrusiveness, it's intrusiveness, into the private lives of Americans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2006] Reference
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