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Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them.
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Fabrizio Gagliardi, the project manager for DataGrid, despairs at the many Grid initiatives already underway.
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It would help if the government made up its mind but he despairs of its ever doing so.
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Even as it wants a revamped presence in Asia, it despairs that its chief regional allies cannot get on.
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The government despairs of Macau's image of drive-by shootings and car-bombings.
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What is more, many of the people he despairs of tend to vote Republican, including the older ones and those for whom social issues are paramount.
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Prof Perotti despairs, comparing it to the time of Nero, when the notoriously mad Roman Emperor decreed that no citizen could ever leave his family's allotted profession.
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As the pickpocket defies a law-and-order campaign to ply his trade, he despairs of his solitude and takes up with a call girl (Hao Hongjian), whose own deceptions are a sign of the times.
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"My people are rotting, " despairs one refugee.
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