• So far, Pakistan should consider itself fortunate to have received such gentle handling after Mumbai.

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  • Thousands of bank employees across the industry can only hope for such a gentle goodbye this year.

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  • The first match of the tour will be nerve-wracking for all involved, and there is no such thing as a gentle warm-up match in South Africa.

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  • They will also be encouraged to prescribe more gentle forms of exercise such as yoga for less active pensioners.

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  • Both the defender of the island, General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), and his friend and fellow-officer Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic equestrian before the war, are such idealized figures modest, gentle, and gallant that they lose any serious interest as characters.

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  • Such a measure is more accurately described as a gentle tap on the body, but never on the face, making it more of a symbolic measure than a punitive one.

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  • And as such, it is an election from which we can draw a few gentle conclusions.

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  • For someone with such a pugilistic public stance, Malaysia's fourth prime minister has an almost gentle private mien.

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  • He had been planning to write a Style article poking gentle fun at the CPAC conference and never imagined he would be handed such rich material.

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  • Moon lives on the fringes of gang life, collecting debts for triad member Big Brother Wing, but steering clear of the killing and crime he feels is reserved for dumber folk -- such as his sidekick Sylvester (Wenbers Li Tung-chuen), a retarded and impressionable gentle giant whom Moon protects from himself as much as from the schoolchildren who habitually pick on him.

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  • Another expert in such cruelty is the film's central character, 12-year-old Alex, a gentle middle-school student in Sioux City, Iowa.

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  • And they hardly needed to chew such tiny pieces, which in most cases were already softened by pounding, overcooking, or long, gentle braisings.

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  • We dream of a city that has a combination of history, vital cultural life, is prosperous, endowed with exciting physical features, such as great rivers, bays and harbours, mountain ranges, with at least one season with a gentle and comfortable climate.

    BBC: Viewpoint: What makes an ideal city?

  • Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.

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  • Members of other faiths will, perhaps, always think of him in contradictory terms - immensely charming and gentle in his personal dealings with Muslim and Jewish leaders and yet capable of huge PR gaffes, such as the now infamous Regensburg speech of 2006 in which he was accused of describing the prophet Muhammed in less than flattering terms.

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