The U.S. can afford to do without those unwelcome gifts and the Soviet state no doubt has some use for such well-wired offices and apartments.

All neatly wrapped up, tied with a red ribbon and dropped on her plate like an unwelcome gift.

For this unwelcome gift, they can thank a voters-be-damned attitude rampant within their City Council, plus some cynical gamesmanship on the part of their mayor.

For an unwelcome gift?

That's why she'd recorded the entire incident-his unwelcome gift, her weariness of playthings, her anger at her limitations, and then his carefully chosen verse.

He said nothing of the unwelcome gift of the sigil Subtle Gateway, but he did tell of his amazing encounter with the One Denied the Sky.

What was it that the monk had told him - that Kalidasa's unwelcome gift had been silent for centuries, and was allowed to speak only in time of disaster?

Their skills differed from Aes Sedai's - less in some places, more in a few, but generally just different - yet they should be able to sniff out any unwelcome gifts.

Yesterday saw about two inches of snow fall across the region just after dawn, the unwelcome gift of a fast-moving storm system that meteorologists call an Alberta Clipper.

Refugees and a sprawling culture of Kalashnikovs, narcotics, sectarian terrorism: all these were the unwelcome gifts of the last Pakistani-American effort in Afghanistan.