Mr Khan seems to belong to the inner circle of the ruling party and like them does not take criticism lightly.
Hence the Democrats' cheers this week when a criminal investigation of Republican fundraising in Texas reached the inner circle of the House majority leader.
With only two fielders outside of the inner circle, the batsman can smash the bowlers past the fielders for those boundaries and sixes in front of the wicket.
Often bragging of his contacts with Mr. Yeltsin's family, he became a key conduit to decision makers in the ailing and absentee president's inner circle in the late 1990s -- a group known as "the family" -- and for a short spell he served as a member of Russia's national security council.
The feeling that, if this group of 100 is the inner circle, imagine the kind of change this Power Matrix can affect.
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Jack Lew also served in the Clinton administration but he has been one of President Obama's inner circle in the White House, in a way that Mr Geithner and others have not been.
Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter are clean and powerful hitters who easily clear the inner fielding circle in the first six overs.
But with multiparty rule key to Lib Dem ambitions, the Clegg inner circle believed that the British public needed convincing, from the start, that coalition government works.
Few people outside of his doctors and inner circle know the details of his treatment.
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Mr Shevardnadze's own inner circle mixes the best and the worst in Georgian politics.
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President Mugabe and his inner circle are the target of international sanctions which involve travel bans and restrict them from doing business in the West as well as curbing non-humanitarian financial aid to Zimbabwe.
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Cuomo and Hauer and top members of the governor's inner circle, including the state operations chief, Howard Glaser, who attended disaster training.
Others fear that Iran is using its influence in the reclusive Mr Sistani's inner circle to show the Americans that it can disrupt Iraq's transition if it is not to the Shias' liking.
Of course, exploiting a hole is also the only way to test that it has been fixed, so those outside the inner circle will be forced to rely on the software vendor's say-so when they get fixes and patches.
"This one wasn't simple like the Orioles bankruptcy because there is so much debt, " said Rob Tillis, principal of Inner Circle Sports, the New York sports consulting firm, who took part in the Orioles auction.
At the firm, he relies on a tight inner circle: Most of the nine partners are veterans of the Giuliani administration.
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What is imperative is that he reaches beyond Congress and his inner circle to get the best and most dispassionate thinking.
She has a cool-kid inner circle, and the people in it get the cush assignments, the high profile projects, and all of the gold stars and accolades, whether they deserve them or not.
Press down on the center, spreading the dough, or roll into a 7- or 8-inch circle -- the outer border a little thicker than the inner circle.
The impulsive and unbalanced Uday is said to have published the list to expose the inner circle and thereby ensure their loyalty by forcing them to stick together as the regime faced imminent American and British attack.
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Mr Wiedeking has gained a seat on the Praesidium, the inner circle of Volkswagen's supervisory board, and his chief financial officer Holger Haerter is set to join the board on 3 May.
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If there was ever a sign that the sort of inner circle surrounding Muammar Qaddafi was crumbling, it was the defection of Moussa Koussa yesterday to the United Kingdom.
But Victor Mpoyo, the minister of the economy and a member of Mr Kabila's inner circle, wanted to reopen the contract, claiming that Mr Boulle had only a letter of intent.
Mr Cameron's friendship with Rebekah Brooks and other members of the Murdoch inner circle - he was at school with her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, and the couple socialise with the Camerons - is well-documented.
The inner circle formulates a plan, and then off they go to sell it to us.
"No, Punxsutawney Phil's forecasts are not made in advance by the Inner Circle, " they write.
After the election, Rubinites like Geithner, Summers, and Peter Orszag were ushered into the inner circle.
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