Mycroft regarded his younger brother's liking to paw at grass blades for clues as low-class, and vaguely amusing.
In that regard, Mr Fischer's proposals would push France to go too far, too fast for Mr Chirac's liking.
Mrs Alliot-Marie may be more independent-minded too much so, perhaps, for Mr Chirac's liking.
But there are suspicions that Mr Kabariti may have become too truculent for the king's liking in his comments about the Israeli government.
More to Merrill Lynch's liking than Mr Spitzer's, some may claim.
At the end of the month, moreover, the commission will issue recommendations for reforms to redress France's declining competitiveness that are unlikely to be much to Mr Hollande's liking.
In the divorce negotiations, the wife's attorney raises these issues to the husband's attorney, implying or actually threatening disclosure to the IRS if the divorce settlement is not to the wife's liking.
The outcome may not be to everyone's liking.
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Not much of it is to Mr Sharon's liking, although he speaks of a Palestinian state arising at the vague and distant end of a phased peace process that could start only when the present violence ends.
Last week, Steven Erlanger of The New York Times reported from Jerusalem that the United States and Israel have been quietly discussing ways to undermine the new Hamas-led Palestinian government and hopefully cause new elections, potentially with the result more to Washington's liking.
If Mr Koizumi is able to name a new team more to his and the public's liking, and at the same time demonstrates that he can compromise with the Democrats on issues that voters care about, he could still do a lot to restore his popularity.
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It could take millions to fix up the structure to your and the government's liking. (Watch for asbestos and lead-based paint.) You'll also need money for insurance, and that includes liability insurance for the rabid lighthouse fans that will show up wanting to climb the lighthouse tower.
This was why, by 1996, this newspaper's growing liking for Mr Clinton's policies was outweighed by our growing distrust of his character, and we endorsed his rival.
"It's not liking the answer and hoping that if you do it again you'll get a better answer, " says Taylor.
The Controller settings menu, on the other hand, is new, allowing users to remap the game's controls to their liking.
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Simply put, it's a big step from "liking" a Facebook page to joining a get-out-the-vote operation or distributing campaign literature in your neighborhood.
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And we were able to fine tune the sound to our liking using the app's bass and treble controls.
It's really a myth about me not liking clay.
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It led to much criticism of the coach, who reiterated on Tuesday that Lopez's style of goalkeeping was more to his liking.
For the first time in the 15 years it had been surveying the public, McDonald's had more people disliking the brand than liking it.
In turn, Mr Icahn will join the board, as will two new directors to his liking, raising the board's membership from nine to 11.
While Bill Gates and Warren Buffett--numbers one and two on last year's Forbes Billionaires list-- engage in a genteel game of bridge, Lakshmi Mittal is ripping apart the world's steel industry and reshaping it to his liking.
Britain's Hamilton was claiming the eighth pole position of his remarkable career and again showed his liking for the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit where he put on a peerless performance to win last year's race.
Others fear that Iran is using its influence in the reclusive Mr Sistani's inner circle to show the Americans that it can disrupt Iraq's transition if it is not to the Shias' liking.
If you can't find yourself an '07 HTC to your liking now, well... that's just crazy talk, but we know a Finnish outfit that might like your business.
That's how he learned to sew, by altering clothes to his liking, in a fitted, tailored style inspired by his uncles, businessmen in Ghana, even if his first creation was a pair of pants made from a bedsheet.
Judges in the U.S. will reject a foreign judgment achieved through a process not to their liking.
Not liking his odds, Reiner drove upstate to see the Cleveland Clinic's Allan Siperstein, who ablated the tumors with two radio-frequency procedures that required only overnight stays.
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