Partly it is a question of style: most congressmen tolerate, rather than warm to, Mr Zoellick's self-confident intellectualism and highfalutin ideas.

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Relations between Mr Sarkozy and Mr Brown are businesslike rather than warm.

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"Rather than more warm words, what people want is for the government to trust the professionals and put people back at the heart of the NHS, " he said.

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Famine and plague, which had largely disappeared during the Medieval Warm Period, became the norm rather than the exception.

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Throughout the day, your home should remain sufficiently warm for your heating to operate on a timer rather than being left on constantly.

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