All his experiences disarming and disposing of bombs made him an adrenaline junkie. |
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They paint the approach as a disarming subterfuge designed to undermine solid evidence that all living things share a common ancestry. |
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There is something disarming, even charming about him, an unaffected, innocent air. |
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Over time, Kang learns new fighting techniques, including grapples and disarming, as well as stunt-driving maneuvers. |
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Above all, it is his honesty, his willingness to draw on biographical detail that infuses this novel with sad, disarming charm. |
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Devon was nowhere in sight, but Dori knew that he was somewhere around the truck that held Linden and Ryan, working on disarming the bomb. |
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We do everything from respond to emergencies involving unsafe munitions on the flightline to disarming improvised explosive devices. |
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There are another 6,200 UN peacekeepers on the way, who will supervise disarming of the rebels and pro-government militias. |
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One false move would activate the bomb and Jason didn't like the idea of disarming a bomb that could easily eliminate life miles away. |
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Koku had turned on the charm, disarming them with the thoroughness of a mono-molecular knife. |
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He sweeps through the Debussy pieces with a nonchalance that is almost disarming but his keyboard touch is indeed lithe and very beautiful. |
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Her character's skill at disarming those around her is uncanny and belies her years. |
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant. |
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Through it all, Dodd remained an avid lover of music and an astute businessman, with a wry and disarming sense of humour. |
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Chatting over Indian samosas and chicken tikka, she seems candid, confident, light-hearted and completely disarming. |
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It's an idea relegated to some throwaway dialogue and one disarming scene in which a girl is confronted by a nutcase. |
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It is astonishing what you can get away with when you deliver it in a cocktail dress with disarming charm. |
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He's irreverent to an extreme, glib, folksy, with a disarming arrogance that drives his non-supporters nuts. |
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Then, with a single disarming chop to the back of his neck, Alex's eyes rolled back into his head, he swayed once, and then fell on the floor. |
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Calmly, and with a disarming friendly manner, he engaged her in conversation. |
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Ambivalent about the generational identity problem slot he's been in, Turpin talks about the future with disarming frankness. |
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And with disarming honesty he replied that most critics would say he wasn't as good as he could have been. |
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But 30 minutes in the company of this disarming and baby-faced individual reveals a tough operator. |
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With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it. |
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The guitarist's disarming sense of humour suggests that his band, in fact, isn't out to destroy rock music as we know it. |
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There's nothing cheap about the disarming effect of good dream-pop, or whatever you want to call it. |
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Counterproliferation includes a spectrum of military capabilities, from missile defense to disarming attacks. |
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I was under the strong impression that no one could withstand her disarming brand of charm. |
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There are a few grumbles but his disarming smile mollifies the majority of the group. |
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Trains lines were dynamited, and civilians were attacking police stations and disarming police officers and taking them prisoner. |
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His wasp-waisted, long-limbed figures express the era's aspirations and opulence with disarming force. |
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The first few minutes of the film are a paean to romantic love, recreating that intensity and joy with disarming simplicity. |
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That conference called for the disarming of both the Arab Janjawiid and the Fur militia. |
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But analysts and residents have complained this does not include disarming the tribal fighters and demilitarising the town. |
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Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming. |
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He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming. |
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A lot of his article is commonsense, but written in a disarming and captivating manner. |
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Not just cute and beguiling, Pilkington's sculptures are slightly off-centre being both disarming and disconcerting. |
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What is so effective about the film is the disarming jollity with which it knocks over the genre. |
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There was a disarming contrast between his imposing appearance in three piece suit and starched collar and his complete lack of pomposity and his sense of humour. |
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David Frost was a man of boundless energy, fierce loyalty, disarming charm, and keen intelligence. |
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It is a tall cuboid volume wrapped in slate which actually sits in the pool, its dark, enigmatic mass giving the disarming impression of floating on water. |
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The sharp-chinned, goateed 55-year-old is too impatient with black stagnation to mince words, though he softens his more provocative statements with a disarming chuckle. |
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What works is charm, the kind of healthy, honest, disarming charm that makes the woman at the accounts office feel like another woman, not a welfare worker. |
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Although to say the man was a big influence on me musically would be a gross understatement, I will personally remember Piggy best for his disarming demeanour. |
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His disarming amiability and jocular charm were irresistible, but his art was immediately compelling on its own terms, and largely responsible for fueling all the interest. |
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This volume covers disarming attackers, counterstrikes, using weapons to disarm an assailant, proper knife techniques and more. |
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Afghan authorities have attempted such efforts-not least with programs aimed at disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating former insurgents. |
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Of special importance is the disarming, demobilizing and integrating back into society of combatants. |
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During the process of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating ex-combatants, the issue of child ex-combatants was given top-most priority. |
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The proud mother of two children, Johnson consistently charms fans and press with her quick wit and disarming honesty. |
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The reasons for arming, and consequently what will enable disarming, vary across the subregion irrespective of political boundaries. |
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He drank his bottles without fuss and seemed always happy, charming us all with that wondrously disarming smile exclusive to infants. |
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Disbanding and disarming militias is of vital importance to strengthen Lebanon's democracy and sovereignty. |
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Over the years, though, she has shown a steely pugnacity, mixed with disarming charm. |
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Mr Palocci is big, amiable, whiskered, and like Lula speaks with a disarming lisp. |
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Another interesting version of the legend saves the honour of the vestal: she makes a pact with the Sabins with the aim of disarming them. |
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The UN puts more emphasis on Canadian duck hunters being disarmed than disarming a mass murdering maniac. |
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Even more compelling was the disarming lyricism of his style, a kind of sweet simplicity which seemed a natural extension of his appearance. |
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The English approach is to swaddle any attacks with disarming self-deprecation. |
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To the right and behind, an 11-year-old Virginia is watching them intently, her chin cupped in her hand, those round, disarming eyes staring out. |
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Sharkee training knives have become popular because they are durable and rigid enough for disarming practice. |
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One of the major assets of this spectacle rests on Brigitte Lafon, sulky and disarming scoundrel, truer than natural, with the ideal voice. |
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One child who couldn't have been any more than eight years old approached me and extended his hand with a disarming smile. |
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Let us not, tomorrow, drop humanitarian bombs on Iraq, on an Iraq which we shall have succeeded in disarming, but not succeeded in protecting. |
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Together we are learning mutual trust, disarming stubborn prejudices on both sides, preparing the day when things might go further. |
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Strengthening the security services and disarming the civilian population remain a priority. |
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This biblical approach to old age is striking for its disarming objectivity. |
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. |
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His disarming professorial habit of asking hard-boiled members of the press to repeat his words of wisdom after him somehow never seems offensive. |
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The commodore was most interested in disarming him, obviously thinking that if he took the captain alive, he'd have an easier time taking the crew. |
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Though he has a high school education, he has been trained to be a specialist here, and he considers his job as delicate as disarming a live bomb. |
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And hopefully, also share the victory here, not just with Iraqis, but with the people of the world who all supported regime change and disarming this country. |
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When they arrived, the soldiers began disarming the guards and giving aid to the prisoners, whose backs, arms and legs were marked with welts and bruises. |
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The idea of a dictatorial American state disarming its citizens is a paranoid delusion. |
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The gun control lobby engages in emotional brainwashing to further its attempts at disarming the American people. |
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Moscow is conveniently two-faced when it comes to disarming pro-Russian separatists. |
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In a few words, Letterman brought the Beatles and what they represented into disarming focus. |
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But he said the process of disarming a chemical warhead or artillery shell is more complicated. |
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He'd recognise, too, the look that crosses Moyes's face more and more often, a disarming thousand-yard stare last seen on Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. |
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For several minutes he ducked and dived under knife thrusts, but he was tiring fast and couldn't see how he could seriously retaliate, short of disarming the man. |
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There is another aspect of Arcady that is more difficult to describe, but which owes primarily to the disarming simplicity of the book's lexicon and spareness of its phrasing. |
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He is disarming, humble, genuinely and immediately friendly and has a way of carrying himself, in front of a camera or in the flesh, which immediately puts you at ease. |
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He also criticized the move of disarming the UCPN-M's People Liberation Army, terming the move as going against the party line. |
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Changes should be made as soon as possible to ensure that, while remaining demonstrably survivable to a disarming first strike, nuclear forces are not instantly useable. |
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And this was only enhanced by her embarrassed apology for the shortness of her show, a touchingly sincere apology delivered with a disarming smile. |
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This was followed by an appeal made by TNG in July for the deployment of foreign troops to assist in the disarming and demobilization of armed militias. |
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Security sector reform cannot be completed merely by strengthening the institutional capacity of the national police or by downsizing, disarming and demobilizing the military. |
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He was renowned for his wit, disarming his critics with unfailing humor. |
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The Liberian Government is aware that although we have been assisted in disarming and demobilizing our combatant children, the transitional safety net provided to them is inadequate. |
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Thus, special attention should be given to reintegration assistance programmes as part of the process of disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating child soldiers. |
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And L'Engle invests the science-fiction novel's witch-angels, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which, with a disarming battiness that metamorphoses into Miltonian grandeur when the story calls for it. |
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We've spent the week trawling YouTube for some of Letterman's more memorable interviews of sportspeople, a subset of celebrity who proved a fascinating fit for his disarming style. |
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Powerful and disarming, her introspective neo-folk took the redhead to stardom in the '80s, notably with Luka, the hit that made her a global name. |
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Germany responded by disarming Italian forces, seizing military control of Italian areas, and creating a series of defensive lines. |
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I do not know if we can call it cagey or crafty that a government would try to introduce a bill that has to do with cruelty to animals and throw the disarming of peace officers into the same piece of legislation. |
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Being here tonight we contribute to disarming them. |
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This intervention with a view to disarming the ethnic-Albanian rebels is, however, subject to specific security conditions which the parties concerned have not yet fulfilled. |
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Canada has noted as well the progress made in disarming paramilitary groups and reducing violence in general and violence against unionists in particular. |
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The king continued his campaign in the south, encircling and disarming the parliamentary army of the Earl of Essex. |
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Disarm our hearts that we might be instruments of your disarming love. |
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They are desperately keen to unseat the local member, the Coalition's Sophie Mirabella, but they are going about it with disarming charm, rather than fire and brimstone. |
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An alarm may occur when disarming the system. |
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After all, denuclearization means getting rid of all nukes, not just one side's. Otherwise, denuclearizing means nothing more than one side disarming. |
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No significant disarming of armed gangs has been effected until now. |
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Infused with an almost disarming naturalness on stage, Clarika appears to draw few boundaries between her artistic and her private life and the two often end up merging at the seams. |
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She spends far more time disarming her reader than Nabokov or Forster. |
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It is their job to take their country in the direction of peace by accepting the restoration of Ivorian government control throughout the country, disarming of all the combatants and establishment of a full electoral process. |
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It is to be noted that after the expansion and extension of the mandate of UNOSOM II, the task of disarming the Somali factions and armed groups who obstructed humanitarian activities fell to them. |
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 obliges Syria to withdraw its military and security forces from Lebanon and calls for the disarming and disbanding of all armed groups in Lebanon, including Hezbollah. |
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Of particular concern for the near future are the situation with regard to the disarming of former participants in the recent crisis and the still unresolved problem of the tens of thousands of internally displaced persons. |
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With his disarming, tongue-in-cheek salutations, he got on the phone. |
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A ghost writer no more, Cagan recounts her own life stories with disarming honesty and authenticity as she steps out of the shadows and onto center stage. |
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A date of May 2000 was set for total disarming of all paramilitary groups. |
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The government has been unsuccessful at disarming the rebels. |
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