She repaired relations with Germany's eastern neighbours, reassured the United States and pandered less to Russia.

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The French politicians who vilified Arnault and American politicians who slandered Saverin pandered to the emotion of the masses.

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Almost all of them, civilian and military, have pandered to the mullahs.

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Instead, they have pandered to their base by supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage (Mr Bush), or railing against firms that outsource jobs (Mr Kerry).

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Some critics say Mr. Yudhoyono has pandered to Muslim hard-liners.

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From the outset and for fully two minutes, Mr. Obama did what he does best: He pandered to a special interest of political value to him and his agenda.

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Mr Hagen, meanwhile, has both pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment and cast himself as the defender of the creaking but familiar welfare, education and health systems: in sum, here is the defender of the Norwegian way of life.

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But long before Weegee (whose real name was Arthur Fellig) pandered to popular prejudices about the differentness of criminals, photography was used by criminologists influenced by crude Darwinian ideas about race, heredity and criminality to try to confirm their assumption that villains were somehow physically distinguishable from law-abiding citizens.

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