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172 examples of Unwanted in a sentence

There's a really funny instance in this one where Tom gives Jerry an unwanted bath in the golf ball cleaner, hilarious!
Once again, ITV force upon us another hash and unwanted remake of a perfectly good predecessor.
If most people still work a 40-hour week, a substantial and growing minority have had unwanted leisure thrust upon them in the form of unemployment, under-employment, and forced withdrawal from the labor market.
A better objection to IVF is that in a world with millions of orphaned or unwanted children, adoption is a more ethical way of having a child.
But such services must not shy away from promoting and providing modern contraceptive methods to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
For adolescent girls, early marriage or an unwanted pregnancy typically curtails schooling.
In other words, there can never be involuntary, or unwanted, unemployment.
A single-minded focus on sealing borders – a particularly worrying trend in states’ approach to migration controls today – tends to regard migrants as unwanted trespassers even before their status can be determined, their rights upheld, or their contributions acknowledged.
Though it was Stalin who used the phrase “rootless cosmopolitans" to describe unwanted Jews, anti-Semites believed that Jews were natural Bolsheviks and probably pulled the strings in the Soviet Union, too.
Extreme ideologies influence people when they can’t feed their families, and when lack of access to family planning leads to an unwanted population explosion.
Thus, social scientists made the everyday lives of ordinary people respectable, while refusing to privilege certain animals over certain - typically disabled or unwanted - humans.
Moreover, those variables that could upend Netanyahu’s re-election – the situation in Gaza and Lebanon, for example, or deteriorating conditions in Sinai and Jordan, any of which could drag Israel into unwanted military operations – now appear unlikely to influence the outcome.
The ECB also pays interest on deposits, so it, too, can in principle prevent higher reserves from leading to an unwanted lending explosion.
For example, we do not want to make it too easy for tyrants to drive unwanted minorities out of their country.
Meanwhile, with the EU increasingly viewed as a source of economic crisis, political turmoil, and unwanted migrants, the risk that Britons will vote to leave in a referendum due before the end of 2017 is rising.
To prevent arbitrage tending to undo central bank interventions, countries (in particular small countries) need obstacles to the unwanted movement of funds in and out of their currency.
An extraordinarily high proportion of the labor force - 12% - is officially classified as “sick” or “invalid” because putting a worker on disability is practically the only way Dutch employers have of ridding their firms of unwanted full-time employees.
For no one should be mistaken: there are alternatives to European integration - all of them bad, unwanted, and dangerous.
China’s bigger fear is the collapse of the Kim regime, which would send a wave of unwanted refugees across its border and could create a new and unwanted neighbor: a reunified Korean state allied with the US.
So the European Commission should stop fighting a rearguard battle that merely weakens its credibility, especially in the eyes of small countries, which are the only ones that can be bullied into accepting unwanted fiscal rules.
They fear that honesty about Europe’s economic prospects over the next year or so might cause markets to force it into an unwanted rate cut now.
And what about Trump, of whom at least a dozen women have complained of unwanted sexual advances (if not worse)?
Without family-planning services, including access to contraception, women are worse equipped to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
The plot then takes another turn when Caesar becomes too big and aggressive to live in a human home, and is taken to what is supposed to be a primate sanctuary, but is in fact a dumping ground for unwanted apes, run by humans who display cruelty to the captive animals.
Today, economists are similarly troubled by unwanted ghosts, as they ponder the reappearance of economic ills long thought buried and dead.
Let's hope that today's economists also learn the lessons of their unwanted ghosts.
The successors to those dictators, however, found this turn of events to be an unwanted complication in their political “thaws”; more sophisticated mechanisms to induce fear among their peoples were needed, and there are few deterrents to dissident activity more potent than the threat of removal to an institution for the criminally insane.
France would be off the reform hook, of course, but at the expense of Germany, which would face unwanted inflationary pressures.
Mr. Greenspan’s statement in Frankfurt in November alarmed senior European Central Bank (ECB) officials, who considered it a “provocation” – one that promptly sent the dollar into an unwanted tailspin.
And, rather than trying to force recalcitrant governments to accept unwanted refugees, EU authorities should pursue an orderly and safe resettlement program with willing governments.
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