It portrays Mr Ivanishvili as a saintly figure with the work ethic of Bill Gates and the moral fibre of Gandhi.

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Even Mr Singh, who is generally seen as a saintly technocrat floating above the fray, has been dragged down into the muck.

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It was a saintly ideal, honored chiefly in lip service.

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And while open access supporters should certainly object to the harshness of the penalties being contemplated here, it would be a mistake to transform him into a saintly folk hero of open access.

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In the distant future, he is a space traveller and she is his saintly muse, floating together through the void in a lovely bubble.

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Given these figures, today's saintly rhetoric needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

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Mahatma Gandhi, his saintly fellow-worker for independence, was a devout Hindu, but challenged the orthodox with his campaign against untouchability.

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After a going-over, "Saintly Hypocrites and Honest Sinners" by Charles Harrison became "Giggling Gossip" by Neil Schaffer.

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