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Venues rotated so as to avoid the suspicions of prying neighbours.
On 56 occasions, traps were damaged, mostly by armadillos, which escaped out of the traps by prying the door open.
With their asymmetry, peering heads and prying beaks, the birds have an amusing and sometimes ironic anthropomorphism.
And the creation of a full factual record on any social problem typically involves prying out information that other people are zealously committed to keeping private.
However, we are perplexed by the suggestion that metaphysicians may have distinctive tools over and above those available to scientists for "prying" such gaps in any direction at all.
Secondly, it might be objectionable by prying into family arrangements under which the dwellinghouse is being constructed.
We on this side would like nothing better than to avoid prying.
During recent years there has been a great increase in the amount of spying and prying into our personal secrets.
She bought another property backing on to hers so as to protect her son from the prying eyes of neighbours.
No one is exempt from this sort of policy of prying into his own individual affairs.
My prying eyes were not able to find them out.
It occasionally results in social workers being accused of prying into issues that they should not investigate.
Talk about investigation—it is not investigation: it is prying.
This is a very fine principle in all educational establishments, and keeps a lot of prying eyes out of the way.
I wonder whether this will mean that we can expect some protection of privacy from excessive media prying—eventually through case law.
