But en route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas.

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Mr Balcerowicz has managed to cleave to a tight fiscal policy.

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The British resolved to cleave to America.

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By and large, the children in the movie cleave instinctively to an Old Testament view of wrongs inflicted and answered, whereas most of the adults, who seem at once weaker and more disciplined, subscribe, at least in theory, to Christian forgiveness.

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She said the judges will likely ask highly technical questions on Monday, to determine how much human ingenuity is required to cleave a gene, and whether the protein sequences named in the Myriad patents are truly works of nature.

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Cleave has said he used his novel to expose dark realities, and he did a masterful job without being preachy or sensationalist.

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