Not for him, the Olympian posture of disdaining ones rivals as not worth the breath required to trash them.

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Once these heedful communities are downwind of a flock of rotting seagulls they might equitably enjoy the self-righteousness of disdaining nuclear power.

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There are other reasons why disdaining Irish voters is a terrible idea.

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With the Islamists disdaining the secular opposition and the secular parties afraid of the Islamists, the opposition in many Arab countries has checkmated itself.

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Penney, was disdaining the way Middle America likes to shop.

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But governments drove them out over time, disdaining the competition.

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Buddy was the working-writer Salinger, the man who had laboured in 1939-43 to get stuff into Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, while all the time disdaining those slicks and lusting after the New Yorker which, in 1948, took him into its embrace.

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And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.

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