• It was much bound up with the clean-living Rastafarianism he had plucked out of the encyclopedia, but it was also drawn from his own South African experience.

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  • He is known occasionally to swear, but otherwise he is a clean-living sportsman who works out with weights when he is not perfecting his craft on the golf course.

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  • The consensus among Nigerians at the time was that the country, under tyrannical military rule, was so corrupt that no Nigerian could, on the surface, be trusted to be earning a clean living - we must all, therefore, be rigorously screened for narcotics and fraudulent intentions when we went abroad.

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  • But the image that strikes me, and the one I remember, is that of an aging, lonely, unkempt, drug-addicted recluse, ensconced at a terribly high expense in a Las Vegas suite, obsessively trying to keep things operating-room clean, living in fear that a germ would infect and kill him.

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  • Despite a clean image -- partly reinforced by his modest living style -- Chuan was labeled slow and indecisive during his first stint in office, which ended in July 1995 after a key coalition partner pulled out during a parliamentary confidence debate.

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  • The President described a strategy that will make the United States a magnet for jobs and manufacturing, equip every American with the skills they need to do those jobs, and ensuring that hard work leads to a decent living -- through investments manufacturing, clean energy, infrastructure, and education.

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  • State insurance programs, such as Citizens in Florida, should indicate to all residents in the state that property insurance on homes near the ocean (including second homes) is likely to be highly subsidized, and those living elsewhere may bear the expenses of the clean-up following the next severe hurricane.

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  • Concerning the living space of this new divine being: it is a very clean-cut, simple and middle-sized, six-story in height, which is built with silver metal and crystal in large quantities and that is not very far away from where he used to work in his human form.

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  • The one big and highly publicised success of the clean-up campaign was the arrest in April of a 36-year-old Swiss national, accused of living with a nine-year-old girl.

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