"You have to take a look at it, " the three-term governor said with a shrug of resignation.
This week, as if with a shrug of the shoulders, he let his attorney-general abandon the official investigation into the affairs of Mr Suharto without any kind of charge.
Frank Morrero knows a lot of people will react to yesterday's hearing with a shrug and an attitude of who cares about a rich and famous athlete fighting for his image, and it bothers him.
The defense is a shoulder shrug, a vague statement of reassurance and an appeal to popular opinion.
No matter how accurate the zingers of the dearly departed are, a goodly proportion of those who remain will shrug and possibly even feel a little defensive.
Allegri's reaction the following day was a shrug and a wry smile of the "We've got lemons, let's make lemonade" variety.
Those strengths have helped it shrug off fears of a slowdown, triggered by lowered forecasts from chip maker Texas Instruments (nyse: TXN - news - people )--a major supplier--earlier this month.
But taking advantage of that requires a willingness to shrug off old management habits.
But it would be hard to shrug off completely the findings of a heavyweight committee which it had itself set up.
This is a precarious position to find oneself in, and I think it can lead a lot of video game writers to just shrug off the problems.
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It is no longer possible in any big, respectable country to insist with a sophisticated shrug that doing deals in some parts of the world always means paying kickbacks.
It is a disaster that the rest of the world cannot shrug off.
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At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.
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Such an admission, if it were ever to be made, would usually occur orally as part of the sheepish smile, half-hearted handshake, and shrug that would accompany the handing over of a settlement payment from the offending party to the victim.
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Since that day, Jonny Wilkinson has returned to the side at fly-half and formed an effective combination with Mike Catt -- he is expected to shrug off a groin problem -- while the likes of Simon Shaw and Andrew Sheridan have been inspirational up front.
If this was just a more convenient way of paying, the banks would probably shrug.
"Insurance people are naturally conservative in the bad sense of the word, " Goodman says with a shrug.
This weekend, at a party conference in Verona, Mr Fini will shrug off more of the past.
Talking to Canadians, they seem to shrug off those arguments, happy with the results of a more prudent and, some argue, less greedy economic philosophy.
The Lebanese shrug off Israeli fears of guerrilla attacks on northern Israel after a withdrawal.
Analysts at ICAP Shipping Research in London shrug off the idea that there will be a glut, since shipments of cheap Australian coal and iron ore to China have for years been constrained by a lack of big ships.
Others, such as the sale of naming rights for sports stadiums, may yield only a resigned shrug.
The moral universe may be getting smaller but, despite the shifting of a few high-profile figures, it seems that India is ready to do little more than shrug.
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