"If that had occurred to me I wouldn't have dared to do it, " he said.

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MPs have been emboldened to go after its members as they would never have dared to do in the days of Jacques Delors.

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Mr Khatami, trying to avoid open conflict with his political opponents, has not dared to do much, except call gently for an end to violence.

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Vee-Jay was in the big league and decided to do what no other black-owned label had dared to do: It began signing white acts, among them Hoyt Axton and, under license, The Four Seasons.

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It was rather the unknown airmail pilot who'd dared to do what had never been done by any aviator before him, the adored Lone Eagle, boyish and unspoiled still, despite the years of phenomenal fame.

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Nobody present dared to say or do anything that might have upset Mr Chirac.

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But he can also do what few have dared to copy.

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