This would involve no concessions by the authorities but, as an official put it, "in true Churchillian style we can afford to be magnanimous in victory".

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Mr. Obama gets to put her in a subordinate position while appearing to be magnanimous, and her seat in the U.S. Senate will likely be filled by a more malleable Democrat who won't be plotting from day one to get to the White House.

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He included whites and opposition figures in his Cabinet and he appeared to be a magnanimous leader who was going to really be very wise in his leadership of Zimbabwe.

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The only smile belongs to Anglo, which has made a handsome profit on a sale it had originally declared would be a magnanimous gesture towards wealth-sharing.

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Wiggins was magnanimous "He will win this race one day and I will be there to support him, " he said of Froome but on Saturday, as if fed up by the second-guessing, he went out and scorched the Tour's last time trial, beating his teammate by more than one minute.

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