If you are really gentle with the accelerator, you can reach highway speeds without ever switching on the gas engine.

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"A polar bear was on his way home from the Alps after doing some shooting for some advertising and was really gentle actually, " Heitman said.

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If you are really gentle with the accelerator, you can supposedly get up to highway speed (62 miles per hour) on pure electricity, without the gas engine ever kicking on.

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I've been wearing the war bonnet and I've been really displeasing these gentle ladies behind me, but this is yours.

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He said people had been able to see Pope Benedict as he really was - "gentle, sensitive and eloquent".

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Do we really expect Asma to be kinder, more gentle of a figure just because she is a woman?

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"I think it caused a certain level of isolation and distrust on the part of someone who really just wanted to be a very very gentle, nice, kindhearted soul and have similar people around him, " he says.

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