Their sometimes naive, sometimes malevolent expectation is that government will redistribute the property it confiscates to the particular causes (special interests) that the cheerleaders favor.
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But they are not paragons of virtue, and even if they were, young people who follow them and organize their own naive ambitions around theirs will eventually run into the rock hard reality that drugs are to sport what Twitter is to celebrities -- not exactly essential, but a valuable resource when used strategically.
The east Europeans may have been naive in their dealings with America in the Bush years.
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By his teens it was clear that Winston had tennis potential he won a slew of regional junior titles, but Li Lin admits the family was "in a way, totally naive" about their Winston's future prospects until colleges came calling.
Take "Two Sisters From Boston" (1946), a charming period comedy starring Kathryn Grayson and June Alyson as a would-be opera singer and her naive sibling stifled by their Brahmin family.
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Inside their online community, investors acknowldege the naive hope that this expectation will be consistently met, but nonetheless insist that this goal is an imperative for any family or investor working with a financial services firm.
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"I talked to one of the parents, who called me and said their son thought it was a prank and naive to the fact of what it meant and he was sorry, " he said.
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Although Russia is capable of behaving cynically over Syria and Iran, analysts and diplomats in Moscow also genuinely believe they have a more nuanced, less naive understanding of regional issues than their American counterparts.
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These grumpy anti-corporates claiming their pay is too high are just envious and naive.
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In other words, Google is going to teach naive people how to put passwords on their Wi-Fi networks.
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The notion that a computer program might get people to rethink some of their core beliefs seems as charming as it does naive.
The this-time-it's-different brigade also points out that the 1990s bubble expanded only after numerous web firms were floated on stockmarkets and naive investors pumped up the price of their shares to insane levels.
Their recommendations range from the blindingly obvious, to the naive and simplistic, to the interesting but underdeveloped.
Previous generations of Americans knew that they were naive about money and so were properly on their guard.
It would be naive to assume that the unions are not getting something for their money.
"I want to reach women who love style, love color, love fashion, and maybe they used to care about where their clothes came from but at some point they told themselves that it was naive to care, " Hilgart said.
Last week Federer told CNN it was "naive" to think tennis is free of players who use drugs to enhance their performance and called on the sport's governing bodies to pour more funding into the fight against it.
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As a consequence, facility financing in pro sports will never again be as favorable towards teams as it has been in the past, though it would be naive to think that teams will not find any success in gaining some concessions from their host communities.
Germans who at first thought she was a bit of a bumpkin naive, guileless and even stupid from the backward east have had to change their minds fast.
Now listen, we're not naive that there are Shia militia leaders who certainly see this as an opportunity to advance their own political position in the country.
On their return they triggered a new wave of film making whose output was fresh and impertinent, if at times naive.
"We can't be naive about what it will take to achieve the most common-sense solutions, " they wrote in their op-ed.
The appreciation that individuals based their wealth and financing needs on was fueled by fraudulent practices involving large financial institutions and embraced by an uneducated and naive public.
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"It would be naive to take at face value comments President Bush and Russia's President Vladimir Putin made yesterday after their meeting in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, " an editorial in the Boston Globe said.
That said, in describing the only real solution available, it also shows why it may be naive to expect a rapid end to the crisis - because the German people are understandably reluctant to mortgage their futures to nations, over whose expenditure and finances they have no direct control.
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