Even the telephone company concedes that picking up the phone in an increasingly intrusive world can be a little like opening the door to just any knock.

In an interview in June, Ms. Dunwoody also criticized what she depicted as increasingly intrusive American demands for personal information about passengers on flight lists.

It is a science fiction novel about UFOs and alien abductions, which shows how the government and military cope with an increasingly intrusive and hostile alien presence.

But the novel's lyrical charm can't conceal its increasingly intrusive framework.

The shy man chosen as foreman (Mr. Maloney) is continually browbeaten by his father-in-law, who takes an increasingly intrusive role in trying to solve the case.

Yet he never establishes a solid relationship between the story and this narrator, who becomes increasingly intrusive.

Thus a prime objective at every stage is to prevent the necessity for increasingly intrusive interventions, thereby maintaining autonomy and family integrity.

Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions (Wharf, 1985).

A second influence was the growing frequency of incursions by coastal raiders Wakou which had become increasingly intrusive on the Korean homeland.

The ads pay for the content and services that many users find essential, but on many sites, advertisements have become increasingly intrusive and processor-intensive.