I know you're bothered.

The others can't be bothered.

He was only bothered about concrete questions.

So, what is this stuff that we're all consumed by, and bothered by?

Well, I'm really bothered by the fact that anybody would think that was hilarious.

And it upset me on a profound level that I wasn't bothered as much the night before.

But sensory is an issue. Some kids are bothered by fluorescent lights others have problems with sound sensitivity.

He conceded that some athletes were bothered by the water, but said that was a result of efforts to clean the pool.

And the one that particularly bothered me in the burn department was the process by which the nurses took the bandage off me.

I was purchasing something I was buying my right to go on with my day and not necessarily be bothered by this bad news.

After that, things kind of got strange, and I got thinking about the computer, because the computer to me always, kind of, bothered me.

I find that 10 minutes into a story, you know, my son will suddenly say, You know, something happened in the playground today that really bothered me.

We've been spending the last few decades accumulating a very powerful backlog of technologies for saving and substituting for oil, and no one had bothered to add them up before.

Nixon himself was probably not bothered by the nature of the Chinese regime four decades ago. The fact that the question must be addressed now attests to China s astonishing progress since then.

I was the youngest by at least a decade, but somehow the poets at the Bowery Poetry Club didn't seem bothered by the 14 year old wandering about if fact, they welcomed me.

Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing. As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.

In all of Warsaw, only a couple government candidates bothered to put up posters. Most counted on the party s media monopoly to carry their message, such as it was Vote Lezek, a good communist.

And you know, not everybody's going to like everything you do, and I've certainly developed a thick skin thanks to Internet comments, but that one's always bothered me, because we don't have too much time on our hands.

A stereo system in the front for mom and dad, and maybe there's a little DVD player in the back for the kids, and the parents don't want to be bothered with that, or their rap music or whatever.

Only 43 of Europeans bothered to vote and many of them deserted establishment parties, often for anti EU extremists. Indeed, the official results understate the extent of popular dissatisfaction many who stuck with traditional parties did so reluctantly, faute de mieux.

After all, managing for the short run encouraged mortgage lenders to offer artificially low teaser interest rates to lure potential homeowners. And then those who bought these mortgages never bothered to investigate their underlying value a spectacular abdication of managerial responsibility.

EUGENE, OREGON The recent news that two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese and the number continues to grow brings to mind a question that has bothered me since the 1970 s Why aren t we all starving?

And I used to be bothered by that, and then I got to thinking, well, wait a minute. I bought my first Apple computer in 1978 and I bought it because I could say, I got a computer at my house and you don't.

And it turned out that Joel and I were both bothered by the same thing, which was how so much of the debate was still focused on the science and how complete it was or wasn't, which, to both of us, seems somewhat intentionally off point.

The agreement gives pharmaceutical firms, tobacco companies, and other corporations substantially less than they had asked for so much so that US Senator Orrin Hatch and some other Republicans now threaten to oppose ratification. Likewise, the deal gives environmentalists more than they had bothered to ask for.

Some e commerce logistics enterprises, including Suning, have introduced plastic express delivery boxes that may be recycled and reused ahead of Singles Day , as well as recyclable packaging such as shopping bags and trash bags that may be used repeatedly. However, acceptance among consumers who could not be bothered was low.

He was famously protectionist during the primaries, declaring he would unilaterally rewrite NAFTA. But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast track trade promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.

And it was that compassion which bothered them, because when he saw in fact, he told me about eight or nine years ago how he was driving his own car he drives his own car by the way and he saw in the rain, a family like the one that I showed to you getting drenched with an infant.

Private electricity producers, for example, will not invest in large scale renewable energy generation if the government does not have long term climate and energy policies or plans for spurring construction of long distance transmission lines to carry new low carbon energy sources to population centers. Such messy policy details have never much bothered free market economists.

NEW YORK Some of the more hysterical German newspapers blamed Germany s defeat against Italy in the semi finals of the European championship on the fact that few players bothered to sing the national anthem. Contrast that with the Italian players, all of whom belted out the words of Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians).

No one can say with certainty that this particular storm was caused by global warming, but almost all experts agree that the effects of polar ice melt and sea level rise will make future storms worse. And yet neither candidate in the United States presidential campaign bothered to mention the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change.

Watanabe, who is now in his eighties and served in the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII, was bothered by the way unfinished business concerning the war continued to hinder Japan s progress. As a remedy, he set up a War Responsibility Re Examination Committee at his newspaper to undertake a 14 month investigation into the causes of Japan s Pacific War.

DNA analysis, one of the hallmarks of the scientific revolution of the last 400 years that he started, was the way we found which set of bones actually belonged to the person who read all those astronomical books which were filled with leftover hair that was Copernicus' hair obviously not many other people bothered to read these books later on.

In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never amounted to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self destruction. For the most part, world leaders preferred not to be bothered with North Korea, and so reacted in an ad hoc way whenever it created a security problem.

So long as the markets were rising, the paradox of vigorous capitalist development overseen by the world s largest and strongest Communist party confounded only academics and old school Marxists. As the Chinese Communist Party elite and their relatives, foreign financial institutions, and some Chinese small investors (enabled by margin lending) made money on stocks, no one bothered to comprehend the mutant creature they were milking.

When the European Union last year considered lifting its symbolic arms embargo against China, none of the governments driving the proposal bothered to consider that this, too, would be symbolic, sending a message all over Asia that Europe was putting its political weight behind Chinese regional policies. Japanese demands to reconsider fell on deaf ears, and the initiative was put on ice only when US congressmen threatened economic repercussions and China increased pressure on Taiwan.