Mobile Karaoke and virtual friends may be peculiar to Japan, but the love affair with mobile phones is worldwide.
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Part of the explanation may be the peculiar Swiss attitude to bank secrecy.
Most of the establishment Republicans it helped to upset in primaries in 2010 were the victims of low turnouts and peculiar circumstances unlikely to be repeated in the presidential campaign.
This was an unusual circumstance -- warfare has traditionally been against nation states -- and we understood that it presents a number of peculiar conceptual challenges to be at war with a network, or as I've described it as a network of networks of terrorist organizations.
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In the business of trading risks around, insurers use a peculiar kind of bookkeeping that will be familiar to anyone who has played the lottery.
Under this peculiar arrangement, the chief agent to be monitored also serves as the most influential person in the body designed to monitor that agent.
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The announcement comes on an important day for The Times--and no, it's not because of the peculiar date, if you happen to be of a superstitious inclination.
But the role Mr Johnson would have to fill would be shaped by the peculiar circumstances that elevated him, and by the ebbing dynamics of the last months of Labour's long imperium.
They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
It is quite peculiar to come back from an illness like that and be so good.
It must be conveyed to future generations....It is a peculiar phenomenon that the Cold War may be the first war in history whose story is being written by the losers -- the intellectual elite that embraced moral equivalence if not the Soviet cause, itself -- and that is clearly an unacceptable situation.
It seems peculiar, conceptually, that Facebook would allow works of art to be acceptable under the nudity policy, but not (computer-generated) images of science.
Regular visitors to Europe, the Middle East and Asia may be familiar with that peculiar jolt of recognition that comes with standing kneedeep in history, but North American travel destinations rarely offer such moments.
Peculiar to Shia Islam, the sigeh is a contract between a man (who can be married) and a woman (who cannot she is usually divorced) for a union with a defined time limit, perhaps 99 years, perhaps 30 minutes.
The current law, displaying a peculiar lack of hindsight, virtually guarantees that the FDA will clear new products proven to be sufficiently similar to ones already approved, even in cases when they contain the same design flaws that have prompted recalls of the latter.
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