And Michael, is the feeling that al-Maliki isn't the right man for the job or might it just be the case that the job is all but impossible for any man?

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This is an amazing honour for any English man or woman.

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Now I had never in my pitiful life knowingly exchanged pleasantries over lunch, or any other meal for that matter, with a man who was regularly trying to kill me.

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For a man who has yet to make his case with any conviction or force, Mr Bush is not in a bad position.

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Of course, it is a likely truism that a woman never leaves the kitchen or the nursery is indeed unlikely to come in contact with any man who would present competition for her spouse.

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Pollard is a deviant man who sold his country out for money, and no sort of pressure from Israel or any other country should cause a single American official to relent.

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It has an office in Brussels and shares a man in Mumbai, but has no presence in, for example, China or Brazil, nor any landmark trade fair, unlike several big German cities.

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Any speaker, any authority, any journalist or bureaucrat asserting the catastrophic danger of supposed man-caused global warming needs to be asked for their response to Climate Change Reconsidered.

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"There is no evidence that greed or a desire for a more luxurious lifestyle played any role in the conduct at issue, " the lawyers wrote of a man who was born in Minneapolis and raised in Wilton, Conn.

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