"You have to take a look at it, " the three-term governor said with a shrug of resignation.
This week, as if with a shrug of the shoulders, he let his attorney-general abandon the official investigation into the affairs of Mr Suharto without any kind of charge.
This weekend, at a party conference in Verona, Mr Fini will shrug off more of the past.
Those strengths have helped it shrug off fears of a slowdown, triggered by lowered forecasts from chip maker Texas Instruments (nyse: TXN - news - people )--a major supplier--earlier this month.
Frank Morrero knows a lot of people will react to yesterday's hearing with a shrug and an attitude of who cares about a rich and famous athlete fighting for his image, and it bothers him.
The Lebanese shrug off Israeli fears of guerrilla attacks on northern Israel after a withdrawal.
Shrug, this sort of thing happens all the time, people go bankrupt, right?
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Mackay is already without defender Lloyd Doyley, while Andreas Weimann and Danny Drinkwater are both looking to shrug off knocks ahead of Saturday's visit of Millwall.
Such an admission, if it were ever to be made, would usually occur orally as part of the sheepish smile, half-hearted handshake, and shrug that would accompany the handing over of a settlement payment from the offending party to the victim.
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The defense is a shoulder shrug, a vague statement of reassurance and an appeal to popular opinion.
Italians similarly shrug off the personal shenanigans of politicians that would surely precipitate resignations in shame north of the Alps.
Allegri's reaction the following day was a shrug and a wry smile of the "We've got lemons, let's make lemonade" variety.
But it would be hard to shrug off completely the findings of a heavyweight committee which it had itself set up.
That may not make anyone very happy, I agree, but the point to be made is that so, shrug, we run out of something, so what?
But Australia's response was to shrug their shoulders and score one of the tries of the tournament.
It is a disaster that the rest of the world cannot shrug off.
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This made it easy for Mr Brown to shrug off Mr Clinton's endorsement of Mr Newsom this week.
GM, Ford and Toyota can shrug off problems in Asia, because of their huge volumes in America or Japan.
No matter how accurate the zingers of the dearly departed are, a goodly proportion of those who remain will shrug and possibly even feel a little defensive.
It is no longer possible in any big, respectable country to insist with a sophisticated shrug that doing deals in some parts of the world always means paying kickbacks.
But taking advantage of that requires a willingness to shrug off old management habits.
And the big risk, of course, is that people shrug their shoulders when BB10 finally ships.
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This is a precarious position to find oneself in, and I think it can lead a lot of video game writers to just shrug off the problems.
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Jonas Kaufmann made Parsifal complicated and vivid, from the adolescent shrug with which he conveyed his initial lack of understanding to the pure, messianic authority of his final transformation.
"Given the size of the company, most investors just shrug it off, " he said.
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If this was just a more convenient way of paying, the banks would probably shrug.
But despite the company's best efforts, people in Louisiana shrug their shoulders when they talk about the transition of power.
She has repeatedly managed to shrug off scandal and thrive on the lingering memory of her brave defiance of apartheid.
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