This path dependency has created a foreign policy where the U.S. props up unsavoury governments which they destruct only years later. |
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Going public will make it more difficult to pull the scheme off a second time, and may give them an unsavoury reputation in some quarters. |
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Once again we appeal to these unsavoury people to please stop this silly nonsense. |
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The Queens Street car park, near to Tavistock Street, has a bit of an unsavoury reputation locally and many owners are reluctant to park there. |
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Then the damning evidence piled up and his journey from superstar to common cheat proved as swift as it was unsavoury. |
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In literature and drama lessons there is an increasing exposure to unsavoury material and language. |
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The unsavoury reputation of the place as a drug-peddling hub could be one reason. |
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These books keep a moral background while revealing the more unsavoury side of certain characters. |
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They wreak havoc on our nervous systems and, all in all, make for generally unsavoury experiences. |
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Another shop in our village has been the easy target for a robbery by some unsavoury characters. |
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The extra police on duty dealt with the unsavoury incident efficiently and the match proceeded without interruption. |
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Some of his commissions have some pretty unsavoury characters with shady pasts. |
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Since she was a child, Elliott has loved the outdoors, so she's used to braving unsavoury weather conditions. |
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I bet London to a brick there will be something very unsavoury between her and the creepy father. |
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The bizarre thing about the unsavoury incident was that the irate individual was himself, of all things, a referee. |
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Although outsiders view the pairing as sordid and unsavoury, the couple cling together, finding solace in this unlikely romance. |
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And as parents or guardians of young people it's important that we stay aware of what's happening out there, no matter how unsavoury. |
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Millwall were knocked out of the Carling Cup by Liverpool amid unsavoury scenes both on and off the pitch. |
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Most of all, I am concerned about a perpetuation of unsavoury sales practices. |
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Annie is living in an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan, a mean-spirited unsavoury character. |
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What parent can guard against their child bumping into an unsavoury character who can lead them astray? |
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Manufacturers regularly added chalk to bread and more unsavoury unnatural ingredients to other foodstuffs. |
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But even if she was looking up something slightly more unsavoury, again, big deal. |
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The unsavoury football history between the two countries at both club and international level makes crowd trouble extremely likely. |
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Bright fluorescent lighting, self service, general uncleanliness and unsavoury smells are all part of the attraction and charm. |
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The other aspect of her conservatism which seems most unsavoury today is her hostility to feminism. |
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The Swiss system got rich over the years by taking money from drug cartels, arms dealers and all sorts of unsavoury organizations and people. |
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Careful consideration by the police and Crown counsel should extend to unsavoury witnesses generally. |
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Both India and the European Union have witnessed and are witnessing the unsavoury acts of certain misguided sections of society. |
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They'll be cross-examined at length because they tend to have unsavoury backgrounds. |
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We must make every effort to force down the frequency of unsavoury practices, such as cybersquatting and others. |
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The drug market is more than just some unsavoury characters making a lot of money: the same people can actually destroy society. |
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Ms Mansfield's encounter was more convoluted, but just as unsuccessful, and, of this and its unsavoury details, more anon. |
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City's misery was all but sealed on 71 minutes when Edmondson received his marching orders for an unsavoury outburst directed at the referee's assistant. |
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The whole thing is a little bit unsavoury but is the least-worst outcome. |
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In the early hours of each morning you had to tread with caution, because spillage was common and the air was often filled with a rather unsavoury perfume. |
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But there is something unsettling about the menacing threats which have accompanied the protests, a taste of which was unveiled in the unsavoury scenes outside Parliament. |
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And in Shanghai, prostitution, apart from its well-known unsavoury social effects, has also resulted in a rapid increase of AIDS in the past 15 years. |
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As it plays out in the context of the film, this metaphorical scenario leads Alex into troublesome emotional territory with friends, colleagues and more unsavoury characters. |
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But together they present a sordid picture of a man who used his status as a minor celebrity to seduce a bevy of women, often in unsavoury circumstances. |
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Heads turned as I sped headlong towards the front doors, and I attempted not to make eye contact with any of the unsavoury characters who haunted the shopping centre. |
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It was an unsavoury situation for us and I am very disappointed in it. |
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The eye-catching poster, memorable title and unsavoury reputation of this nasty little flick have kept it alive in the minds of movie goers for decades. |
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Objections raised include the cost of the new bins, their unsightliness and the burning issue of how one cleans them out when they become unsavoury. |
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His joy at America's meaner weapons is ejaculatory, and, in the slaughter of thousands of Taliban recruits, unsavoury. |
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Any putative alternative to the present government will need to keep its pedigree pure and free from the taint of unsavoury associations. |
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The children feel trapped but find the strength to ask the help of a trusted friend to escape the unsavoury Mr. George. |
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In this new memoir, she chronicles the reaction, while also dishing the dirt on a life spent in the midst of a rather unsavoury rock scene. |
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I think there is still time for this unsavoury deal between the British and the IRA to be stopped in its tracks. |
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Does it become even dirtier when politicians have to deal with such unsavoury matters as pigswill and abattoir waste? |
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Ahead of Eurovision, Amnesty is urging Azerbaijan to address its unsavoury record on human rights. |
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The campaign conducted by opponents of abortion against the report is therefore absurd and, in certain cases, downright unsavoury. |
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What we do know is that the current regime is linked to and connected to some very unsavoury activities. |
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Hussein is an unsavoury dictator whose military position has now been clearly undermined. |
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Where the prosecution will depend on witnesses of an unsavoury background, such as police agents and jailhouse informers. |
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The independent confirmation relates to other evidence that would support the credibility of the unsavoury witness. |
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Many houses were infested with mice, flies, and other unsavoury creatures. |
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The other puts up with neighbours whose unsavoury reputations are undeserved and is beginning to be accepted everywhere. |
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We have also encountered some very unsavoury examples of where there has been reluctance by carriers not to provide information for whatever reason, such as privacy, cost, et cetera. |
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This policy extends, but is not limited to, unsavoury, highly suggestible or impressionable witnesses whose anticipated evidence may be shaped, advertently or inadvertently, by the interview process. |
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As to how politicians are supposed to handle that interaction given the more unsavoury aspects of Mr Arafat's history, not to mention the way a photo might play to pro-Israeli constituencies at home, well, it's a toughie. |
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The investigations tend to have lots of voluminous and complex evidence derived from wiretaps and unsavoury witnesses such as civilian agents or turncoats inside a gang. |
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Over ham sarnies I learned there is now enough unsavoury muck seeping into the Thames to fill the Albert Hall 450 times. |
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That puts everything back to front, and seems to suggest that we are doing something unsavoury when we ask an accession country to meet our fundamental values first. |
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As such, it had had some unsavoury aspects, which was why his Government had repealed it. The new Minor Offences Act covered offences such as disorderly conduct, harassment and indecent exposure. |
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Some members of this family, I agree, are unsavoury but to blame immigrants for all this country's ills is buck-passing. |
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It has become an unfortunate, unsavoury practice in Canadian politics to malign the reputations of individuals who have been elected to serve the people of Canada. |
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The distortion inherent in this contrasting silence about one of the most unsavoury features of the Pétain regime is capable of being understood as amounting to implicit support for what was done. |
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Bullfighting and cockfighting are unsavoury spectacles but the EU recognises that they should be allowed to continue within the EU in regions where an unbroken tradition exists. |
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But, apart from that one time he did it to slow Kramer down, the usually fastidious Jerry has an unlocked door policy which should lead to all sorts of unsavoury intrusions that not even a slappy bass could jollify. |
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Of all the unsavoury details rolling out of investigations into the silicosis and asbestos scams, some of the ugliest, concern doctors, who abandoned their ethics to cash in. |
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It should refinance banks at very different interest rates depending on whether the loans benefit the sound economy I have just described or, on the contrary, are to be used as the basis of unsavoury financial operations. |
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When Barclays was slapped with a £290m fine for rigging Libor, the lid was raised on the unsavoury culture inside the high-street bank's investment banking arm. |
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Orbán's long-term policy of nationalising energy, however, depends on a rather unsavoury partner: Budapest recently signed a loan agreement with Russia to upgrade a nuclear power plant. |
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The advantage being you can grab a snack there too, everything is under one roof so you are spared the danger of wandering into an unsavoury area and they are usually open later. |
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This despite the deeply unsavoury legacy of the Al-Yamamah bribery scandal, which revealed corruption on a scale previously unheard of in Britain. |
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My hon. colleague from Dartmouth indicated earlier how we need to get above and beyond allowing the mob, the underworld or unsavoury elements from taking control of the growing area of gambling. |
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Then there were the allegations that exploded on the front pages of newspapers, starting first with the Toronto Star, about very unsavoury dealings with her husband trying to lobby the government as an unregistered lobbyist. |
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The reason it is the largest is that we believe that bills in larger denominations are especially attractive to people engaged in unsavoury activities. |
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A military coup is the wrong way to get rid of even such an unsavoury character as Prime Minister Thaksin: it is not the way to go about it, and this Parliament cannot remain silent. |
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I cannot accept an agreement that is strictly for trade reasons, for investment reasons and for protecting Canadian investors, particularly a few unsavoury Canadian mining companies. |
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There seems to be a general sense among citizens that intelligence work in places like Afghanistan is unsavoury, and that such work may not meet Canadian standards of fairness and integrity. |
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To single out this group as some sort of an unsavoury way of helping the government and the Liberal Party is totally unacceptable and a total fabrication. |
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Today be assured it would be full of winos, drug users and other unsavoury characters. |
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Chudalup, where we were disturbed in the night by two unsavoury gents, who seemed to have plans for us, and it wasn't a game of Parcheesi. |
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Ice queen Chrissie flips when she overhears her odious toerag of a husband Robert talking to Aaron and learns yet more unsavoury facts about her lying spouse. |
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