He was an unassuming man, steady, phlegmatic, with a thick brush of white hair and a craggy outdoorsman's face.

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This seemingly quiet, unassuming man has made just about every mistake possible in both creating and dealing with the crisis.

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"He wouldn't have wanted a fuss", said Mr Fielding's great-grandson Bob Couzens who said his ancestor was a "quiet and unassuming man" who "didn't seek attention".

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"He seemed like a very quiet, unassuming young man, " he said.

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He was a soft-spoken man with an unassuming manner, says BBC Urdu's Dilawar Wazir Khan.

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Hirshberg , Nissan's unassuming chief designer, was the best man to pitch the product.

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He described the man who opened fire as quiet and unassuming.

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And when he left, going back to unassuming Bongha, he enhanced his reputation as a man of the people who, though he governed in turmoil and controversy, was at least clean.

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The long-running TV series has been narrated by the likes of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan -- not bad for an unassuming kid's show whose setting is based on the windy and remote Isle of Man, which floats between Scotland and Northern Ireland in the middle of the Irish Sea.

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