Then there's our gadget fanboyism, where nerds take sides on symbolic home teams, if you will.
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In the end, Citigroup evidently decided not to take sides and not to vote their shares.
It is hard not to take sides, and the director himself is unambiguous in his sympathies.
If this survey had to take sides in the argument, it would support the optimists.
There are also two contestants from war-torn Syria, though both have been careful not to take sides.
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Twice before in recent history the door had been open for the Senegalese army to take sides.
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"We are not in the West seeking to take sides in this internal dispute, " he told CNN.
Rather than do this, guided by its appeasement ideology, the Obama administration has refused to take sides.
The US has no territorial claims in the region and will not ''take sides'' in disputes, she stressed.
The TV and movie piracy issue seems to be causing many to take sides, but according to Jonathan D.
But he also said that it was not the role of television to take sides in a political conflict.
"Lawmakers don't want to take sides, " said Walid Tabtabai, from the Islamist faction.
The issue has divided Catholic groups, and priests across the country have used Sunday homilies to take sides on it.
Some in Russia want the Armenians to take sides against the Georgians, perhaps by stirring up the Armenian minority there.
The US ambassador to Britain has told the BBC that his country would not take sides in the Scottish independence referendum debate.
He added that he could not take sides in the election dispute.
It presents stories in ways that encourage people to take sides.
Consumers are being asked to take sides when all we really want to do is pay for a couple of Snickers bars and a Red Bull.
This was welcomed by MPs, who said they did not want to take sides in what is a dispute between difference branches of the Sabah family.
While politicians and experts take sides on the issue, some drivers are just looking for reassurance that ethanol is not a bad idea in their vehicles.
Brazil recently turned down a request from Colombia's armed forces to use an airstrip in the Amazon, saying that it did not want to take sides in an internal matter.
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Satellite Sentinel does not take sides between the various warring parties in Sudan, but is focused on stopping violence that may occur, including violations of the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement.
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Bumi shareholders will have their first chance on Thursday to take sides in a battle between the founders of the mining company, as a vote will consider whether to revamp its board.
This is not to take sides in what is an important debate, with passions that run high on both sides, merely to point out that their huge presence in the UK can't be assumed to be a net good thing.
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Squeezed between these two great powers, southeast Asian nations will come under growing pressure to take sides unless they can stay united, said Mr Pitsuwan, a Thai diplomat who will step down next month after five years as the head of Asean.
Sabatini says countries in the region are cautious about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's influence, but they aren't ready to take sides with the U.S. Larry Burns, of the Washington based Council on Hemispheric Affairs, says this is becoming an issue of regional solidarity.
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