Last week Goldstein told me about her plans to enter the worlds of television and publishing, and about her goal to revolutionize the fashion world with a very democratic approach to style.

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In his own writings, especially his essays, his style was quirky, democratic and off the cuff in a way that foreshadowed Dickens or Browning.

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If the American people want a European-style social democracy, the Democratic Party will give it to them.

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Republican Allen has a folksier-style compared to the stiffer, drier Democratic Robb.

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Undoubtedly, the Obama Administration is too fastidious for such Cold War-style behaviour, but perhaps overt, democratic institution-building assistance is not too much to ask.

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Yarmuth was the captain of the Democratic team that each year takes on a Republican team in a Ryder Cup-style charity event called the Roll Call Cup.

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Research undertaken in 2005 shows that the democratic mandate provided by directly elected mayors has 'provided a basis for a stronger, more proactive style of leadership than other models.

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His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.

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