Senator Murray denounced the EADS propaganda campaign to make the company look less French and more American.

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Ms Sarney, the governor of Maranhao, in Brazil's poor north-east, has surged in popularity through a propaganda campaign that highlights her charm and glamour more than her policies.

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While Greece has been back in the headlines there has been a much less reported propaganda campaign going on within Germany aimed at winning voters over to the idea that Mrs Merkel is right on Europe.

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Earlier this month, Abe George, one of two candidate running against Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who is seeking re-election, sought a court injunction seeking to stop the airing of the show on the grounds that it was campaign propaganda that violated the state's laws on corporate donation limits.

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Permission denied, he said, by Mexico City, because of Article 41, a provision of the Mexican constitution that forbids the diffusion of government propaganda during an election-campaign period.

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In creating this favourable impression of the campaign, the tsar was helped not only by propaganda but by the remarkably disciplined behaviour of his troops who neither stole nor marauded as they advanced through Europe.

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But that propaganda, managed by the publicist for Mr Zedillo's own presidential campaign, helped to put the cheeky and charismatic Mr Madrazo ahead of the stiff Mr Labastida.

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