• Until recently, the education ministry was among the most zealous proselytisers for this system.

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  • Despite complaints by some observers, election officials said the delay was caused by a zealous effort to carefully cross check each result.

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  • Black students in other Southern towns began to do the same, and lunch counter by lunch counter, drugstore by drugstore, department store by department store, Jim Crow was assaulted by the zealous actions of just a handful of students.

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  • As an editor at Wine Spectator magazine at the time of the Salahis' party, I was contacted by a zealous publicist for the couple, desperate to have me write about it--particularly the grand denouement, in which several UPS deliverymen took the stage to deliver Mr. Salahi some wine.

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  • Katerina Vasilievna would meet him, filled with anguish and zealous fury: it was clear that her husband loved another woman, a better woman, a beautiful stranger of a wicked woman.

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  • Australia's Shane Watson was also fined after his over-zealous celebration after taking the wicket of Chris Gayle.

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  • That was great before the recession, and her zealous discovery of sandwich makers, cooks and the perfect bra made a lot of people happy and rich.

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  • In other words, if storms caused by careerism in the curia threatened to sink the papal ship, it was partly because Benedict himself had been too zealous in stilling the nurturing waters of theological debate.

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  • To win, he would have to capture at least three-quarters of the support for Tom Long, the third candidate, an adviser to Ontario's premier, Mike Harris, whose campaign was tainted by his backers' over-zealous efforts to sign up new party members in unlikely corners of Quebec.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Adil's camera was nearly snatched out of his hands by another zealous and eagle-eyed security official who had spotted us filming from his third floor watch-station.

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  • At an EU summit in 2008, when the financial crisis was raging, Nicolas Sarkozy chastised the commission for being too zealous in upholding competition.

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  • But refraining from bombing Moscow does not oblige you to pretend, as Mr Blair seems to, that Russia's razing of Grozny by bomb and shell was nothing worse than a disproportionate reaction to provocation: a bit of over-zealous policing, as it were.

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  • Though he has been depicted as a less than zealous defender of privacy rights, he had no doubt that the Hewlett-Packard leak investigation was a serious invasion of privacy and quite possibly criminal.

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