1.   The world, however, was not moving in the desired direction and the Left often annoyed Labour leaders by pointing this out in public.

2.   Such statements annoyed Protestant leaders like Trimble and the Rev. Ian Paisley, the hard-line leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

3.   The statement annoyed Russian leaders, who oppose NATO membership for any republics of the former Soviet Union.

4.   The decision annoyed Vietnamese leaders, who said the U.S. offer to resettle the asylum seekers was politically motivated.

5.   A US plan to upgrade relations with Taiwan has also annoyed Chinese leaders.

6.   The year before, Murdoch annoyed Chinese leaders by saying satellite TV was a threat to totalitarian regimes.