Expect Obama to move quicker than this, in part through his keenness to build on campaign momentum.

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Others sense some slackening in the government's keenness to consult, as ministers grow more accustomed to office.

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Hence its keenness to steer investors towards a measure that excludes marketing costs.

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Back in 2000, his keenness to stamp American democracy on the world made him the neoconservative pick ahead of the milder Mr Bush.

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But Mr Bauer's keenness to change the subject suggests that the religious right is not the source of intellectual and emotional energy that it used to be.

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Hamburg enjoyed a lively start after the break but their increasing keenness to force the breakthrough left plenty of space for the visitors to exploit on the counter-attack.

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His newly appointed (and fourth) defence minister, Gilberto Echeverri, is considered better placed than most men in power to initiate a peace process, and has expressed his keenness to get talks going again.

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In part, this reflects the fact that some of the first rich people to back Labour came from the arts men like David Puttnam, a film maker, and Melvyn Bragg, a television presenter. (Both men are now peers.) But it also illustrates a keenness to cultivate opinion makers.

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This week Amado Boudou, the economy minister, signalled the government's keenness by asking Congress to repeal a law that bans negotiations with those who rejected the 2005 deal.

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Despite being miles from any wrestling club he shows his keenness and commitment by travelling widely to events during the summer season and in winter turns up at both Rothbury and Carlisle for training.

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