Early U2 recordings show earnest young men influenced to varying degrees by Christianity, Irish social unrest and punk music.

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The earnest young man also loved looking under the hood of companies to see how their wiring might be improved.

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Up to 80% of Spaniards say they support the earnest young protesters.

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Then he meets an earnest young fellow from Buffalo (Jonny Orsini) at the Automat, hauls the boy home for a tumble and, very much to his surprise, falls in love.

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While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.

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A. agent (Denzel Washington) and the earnest young operative (Ryan Reynolds) who tries to reel him in run through the streets of Cape Town, across rooftops in a shabby township, down narrow corridors, and through a crowd at a giant stadium.

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By all accounts, the Japanese Kamikaze pilots in WWII were earnest, dedicated young men.

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House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan is an earnest, dedicated young man.

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Methuselah, who at 969 is the oldest man to have ever lived in the Bible, is shown as an earnest, curly-haired young man in these panels.

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It is hard to know whether this ambition was in earnest at the time or simply the fallback position of a hyper-urbane young person with a mild case of disaffection.

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