"There is an affection for a guy who admits he's a sinner and asks for forgiveness, especially down here, " Avlon said.

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Yet many frontier cities in the United States still hold an affection for the wooden sanctuary, paying it a special kind of homage each year.

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The directors seem keen for him to do well as he has been there for more than 10 years and has an insight into the club's workings and an affection for it.

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From her first incarnation as head of statistics (she had read maths at the University of London) through her time as finance editor and then mastermind of the newsletter Financial Report, she showed grit, feistiness, a disarming sense of humour and an affection for bone-dry La Ina sherry.

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Any sort of pricing strategy is unlikely to go through without the consent of Time Warner and Viacom, so I feel myself feeling an unlikely affection for the media giants at this moment.

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He combined this with disciplined enthusiasm, a taste for the arcane and arresting, a deep and deeply informed love of literature, felicity of quotation and allusion, and most of all an apparently genuine affection for his readers.

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Clearly EU leaders have not yet found a way to reverse what seems like an inexorable decline in affection for the European project.

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