Critics say she is not an inspirational figure, she shows indecision, she is not media-friendly and she is only standing for want of a stronger candidate such as Mr Strauss-Kahn.
She is not vain about it, but she is not apologetic about it, either.
"We know you want to talk to her, but she is young, she is inexperienced and she is not able to reply properly to all your questions, " he said.
Germans find it easier to say what she is not than what she is.
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She is not telling anyone else what to do, and she is certainly not trying to establish some kind of standard for the workplace.
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But now that the show, and her marriage, are over, Simpson is best known as a tabloid star--better known for who she is, not what she does.
She is not sure how she will vote in next year's midterm elections, as she looks for the candidates who will deal best with pocketbook issues.
Groups who encourage change, Plan says, should be supported, "to ensure that when a child is born she is not discriminated against simply because she is a girl".
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That race is still unresolved, but if she is re-elected, she is not expected to return to the leadership.
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"There is a part of the Danish population who are irritated by her and think that she is not very Danish, she's very Polish in her ways because of her father, " he said.
Livni insists that Kadima is not a leftist party and that she is not a leftist even as her positions are identical to those of the post-Zionist Meretz party.
We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.
Keeping a close eye on what is going on around her, she tells me that this is not just a job - she feels it is part of a change that India has to go through.
Such a sharp contraction in the investment rate is not, she says, consistent with a soft landing.
It prevents the patient from having a clear perception of what is real and what is not, she says.
Gandhi is not that she's too foreign, but that she's too familiar.
The big surprise here is not that she was a woman proposing to her boyfriend, but that it was a warm, sunny day in London.
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But re-establishing Palin's credibility is not all she has to accomplish.
It is understood the girl, who was found unharmed, was cared for and fed throughout last week and it is not thought she was locked inside the boat.
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"My concern for her is not that she would be an ambassador, which she would be, and I'm sure she would do a wonderful job, " Galica said of De Villota.
She is unquestionably accomplished, but she is not a repressed intellectual, in the mode of Teresa Heinz Kerry.
She is not just honing her fencing skills, she is also working on her general fitness by running and playing football.
Yes, I know she is close with Murtha, and she is not exactly pals with Hoyer, her No. 2 in the Democratic House hierarchy.
She says her neighborhood, Adhamiya, is no longer permissive if she is not clad so modestly.
Daisy is desperate but she is not any more desperate than her husband who is totally utterly desperate.
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Given this scenario, every single one of us -- except the poor young woman herself -- would recognize that she is not herself, that something is very wrong, that she has an illness.
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