In person Sir Ranulph comes across as a strikingly modest, canny and straightforward man - reluctant to dwell on his own frustrations - 50% of all his past expeditions had failed, he pointed out.

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He's a very straightforward man.

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The sheer intricacy of the Virgin empire sits oddly beside Mr Branson's image as a straightforward, open sort of man.

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The straightforward chance was spilled and the Middlesex man recovered from the two escapes to hit 14 fours and a six before top-edging a sweep.

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White gained slight turn from a ball that was pitched on a length outside off stump and Tendulkar, attempting to run it down to third man, handed Hayden a straightforward catch at slip.

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Thus, the choice Americans will have to make this Fall is pretty straightforward: Accept the claimed "strength" of a man who has spent his entire public life seeking higher office on a platform of accommodation of our adversaries and opposition to the policies and programs aimed at defeating and destroying them.

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" Ms. Brown formed her Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, the same year she created the straightforward but eerie event for a solo male dancer, matter-of-factly called "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.

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The climb itself was straightforward and on May 25, 2008, at the age of 76 years and 340 days Sherchan became the oldest man to climb Everest.

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