For a singer-songwriter who plays such gently inoffensive music, Yusuf Islam has made a lot of news.

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When Mr Josipovic was elected in January he was seen as a nice, inoffensive lawyer.

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The design is inoffensive enough, but it doesn't look like a Lumia to us.

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By far Mr. Jago's biggest sellers are generic Australian red and white wines, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio, an inoffensive white that Tesco sells more than 27 million bottles of a year.

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With the new emphasis on more casual games, some of the most popular titles involve inoffensive pastimes such as constructing electronic cities, completing abstract logic puzzles or managing a virtual football team.

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But it was the intent of "purposely violating" the dignity of an individual by acting in a "hostile and intimidating manner towards them" that set racism apart from inoffensive banter.

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Because they aim for a global audience, Hollywood theme parks tend to be spectacular but self-consciously inoffensive to all nationalities.

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Yet he has parlayed the art of being inoffensive--as well as considerable business smarts and superhuman drive--into 35 hours of weekly airtime and a Rolodex the envy of TMZ.

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