Officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees also say quietly that the returns from Egypt, insofar as they were prompted by near-destitution, risk violating one of the key principles of refugee law: the idea that people should not be sent back to their home country against their will.
It is better, they say, quietly to lobby for preferential carve-outs, an approach that may serve their own interests but only adds to the sense of systemic unfairness.
Legal sources say the White House has quietly set up an informal "war room" of sorts, ready to respond when the rulings are handed down.
On the ground, though, Chechens say that the Georgians have quietly given them the nod, and a Georgian construction company is working on the road.
Indeed it's been whispered, only quietly I have to say, about the relationship between Carwyn Jones and Dame Gillian herself.
Easier too, you'd have to say, if you're working quietly in your back room and no-one knows what you're up to.
But the Chinese energy revolution has been quietly gaining strength, observers say.
Say, Gig, said Sy Young quietly, if steroids had been there, and Ruth held up his hand and said, There's no one left to care.
The Berlusconi government had already quietly made a string of changes that critics say will make tax evasion harder to detect among the self-employed, professionals and small-business owners.
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They would rather observe the drama from a distance (a distance that may not hold, for the drama may come to them) and, if it ends happily, come forth to say this is indeed what they hoped for, what they quietly helped.
He could come over, and I will sit down quietly, calmly listen to what he's got to say, but I don't feel he could change my mind.
Near his boyhood home in San Diego, where his parents still live, residents say the Holmes family, which includes Mr. Holmes's younger sister, lived quietly and fit into a neighborhood filled with involved parents and active kids, where houses were always decorated for Halloween and Christmas, and neighbors hosted pool parties.
Families across the country quietly and privately make decisions to withdraw care from beloved relatives every day, they say.
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