One wonders about the Board of Directors, that, until recently was a paragon of inaction.
That Saudi Arabia's royal family is a paragon of this style goes without saying.
We must always be careful when holding up what once was as a paragon of virtue.
Mr Museveni's is nowhere near as bad as its predecessors, but neither is it a paragon.
Mario Balotelli is young (22), volatile and not exactly a paragon of consistency and discipline.
Being a paragon of free-market economics and fiscal and monetary prudence has had its rewards.
At that time, Accenture was still part of Andersen, which was still a paragon of rectitude.
Its subscriber-management operation is a paragon of customer service that shames the cable companies.
Enter Coriolanus (Mr. Page), a paragon of the military virtues who more or less single-handedly defeats the enemy.
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Jim was working with a world-famous investor, a paragon of the investment world with whom he had instantly clicked.
Myanmar's leaders, for example, have seen Mr Suharto as something of a paragon.
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Erekat of course, has not distinguished himself as a paragon of truthfulness.
Goldman Sachs has long been a paragon of ethics on Wall Street.
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In 16 years of selling millions of network routers to businesses and buying dozens of rivals, it was a paragon of high-tech growth.
Many Democrats continue to pretend that Jack Kennedy was a paragon of family values and Harvard-Yard liberalism rather than a womanising cold warrior.
While a doner kebab is not exactly a paragon of transparency, it is very clearly a giant rotating pile of glistening, squelchy, compressed, mixed "something".
Outsiders tend to regard China as a paragon of export-led efficiency.
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Now while the Russian government still heavily intervenes in currency markets and is far from a paragon of laisez faire, th e ruble is fully convertible.
The light, speedy MacBook Air is a paragon of what a capable laptop should be and I expect Macs to adopt the same new Intel processor coming soon for PCs.
Quite the opposite: The technology used to produce these seeds is a paragon of agricultural progress and benefits the environment, so those who oppose it must face some inconvenient truths.
But one Senate subcommittee chairman with subpoena powers could cast much needed light on an industry whose record makes the tobacco industry look a paragon of transparency and accountability in comparison.
Mr Raby said "what's extraordinary about Cyrus, is that he appears as a paragon of princely statesmanship in the two pillars of Western cultures, that is the Greco-Roman tradition and the Bible".
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In the late 1990s, BP was held up as a paragon of management gone good, having evolved from a rule-bound, quasigovernmental entity to a slimmer, more efficient company that empowered managers to earn profits for shareholders.
Tirelessly stumping from mountain meadow to beer hall, Mr Stoiber fired off figures aiming to show Bavaria is a paragon of low crime, low debt and low unemployment (6.5%, against a national rate of 10.6%), attractive to investors and holiday-makers alike.
Yet transforming DuPont into a green paragon will not be easy.
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