The Bush administration considers Iran to be a dangerous influence on its neighbors.

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It has a big role to play in a dangerous region, as well as considerable influence among developing nations.

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Germany dominated the play, recording more shots, completing more passes and possessing the ball for roughly 60% of the game but couldn't create a breakthrough and struggled to make the space for its dangerous attacking players, Mesut Ozil and Thomas Muller, to influence the game.

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Where thinking becomes dangerous is when flawed thought is dispensed as advice from a respected person of influence.

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Mr Sharif's overthrow by Gen Musharraf showed how dangerous it was for any politician to attempt to curtail the military's influence.

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Diplomacy, economic influence, and other means of persuasion are always to be preferred in our dealings with dangerous regimes and rival states.

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The community influence his lawyer credits Mr Coke with means that the police might find it difficult and dangerous to find and arrest him.

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