In 1918, "after long and irritating delays owing to the military censorship" (according to the English translator Edward Fitzgerald, 1935 U.S. edition), Mehring's Karl Marx: The Story of His Life was published.

And he delicately refers to an "understandable disinclination" by artist members of the party to concede that the issue had any importance; he also empathetically notes the "irritating delays" caused by denazification.

So there are more Israeli roadblocks and irritating delays for Palestinian drivers.

There were irritating delays.

The enterprise had been fraught with irritating delays and mistakes, but after two years Maev's spinners were creating enough good thread to supply the majority of Eldacre's shirt and clothing makers.

He turned ship to circle the planet, an irritating delay for an impatient man.

It took him about ten minutes to make the trip each time, a delay sufficiently irritating that Obama's assistant expended considerable effort to avoid it.

At airports in Chicago, Dallas, Miami and New York, where American has its biggest operations, passengers appeared to be suffering irritating delays but were not stranded in large numbers.

As with other matters, we are experiencing continuous and increasingly irritating delays from the Turkish side in relation to these issues.