Remember, the government is a large and powerful force and a robust economy may not be to their liking, at least not quite yet.

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Whether the person who succeeds me will be more to their liking remains to be seen.

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With the Lisbon Treaty, those same national leaders have also ceded far more power than they realised to pan-European political parties, who imposed on them the deal dividing up the two posts, backed by the threat that nominees not to their liking would not be approved by the European Parliament in a vote early next year.

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And when we looked at some of the "likers" - for my virtual bagels and for some other pages - quite a few of them seemed to be engaged in "liking" everything they saw, with thousands of businesses benefitting from their admiration.

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