Second, there is the nagging feeling that, far from being helpful, such a proliferation of 'oughts' would succeed only in further confounding decision-making.
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The oldnagis the voice of women and the downtrodden whose struggles will not dramatically change, regardless of political slogans.
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In family interaction, for example, the case study is about nagging; in the workplace domain, about male banter and boasting in a stockbroker's office.
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Upon servants devolves the responsibility for speaking what must be spoken - illicit desires, nagging suspicions, scandalous behavior - if the community is to function healthily because openly and honestly.
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It tends, however, to leave room for nagging doubts about whether some less common but nonetheless crucial usage is still lurking tantalizingly in the unseen data.
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Some even condemn the practice of voting, because, they say, if one's own candidate loses, the defeat will continue tonagoneself even against one's best intentions.
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On the whole, the oldnagtends to hobble along rather than gallop.
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They nagged for a pedestrian crossing and were turned down.
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The old broken-windednagof illegal betting has been trotted out again this evening.
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By the end of 1975 concern about where they stood in relation to the law began tonagat many people using minibuses.
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They have nagged and nagged, and they have smelt of appeasement.
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Even now they are nagged by uncertainty, and their future is none too bright.
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The issue under discussion has nagged away for a long time.
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I reckon it a good citizen which ought to have a certain amount of support and not to be nagged at.
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I have nagged for its reduction ever since.
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