Wright was too polite to tell Horwitz, so he became a sort of liaison between Horwitz and the woman.

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Its major retailers, including Sears, Federated and Kohls, are too polite to say whether they find this unfair or unwise.

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They were probably too polite (or just too pleased) to say anything.

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The association is far too polite to speak so frankly.

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Samsung knows you're too polite to hold the stranger up while you convey your vision, so it has come up with a camera feature that does the explaining for you.

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Anthony and Stoudemire, who hyped their partnership as vital to the franchise, too often look like one of those melancholy couples you see pushing though dinner, engaging little, too polite to confront what's wrong.

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Last summer, when I first met Prof Siegert, I was too polite to remind him of what had happened to another British science project, the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, the spacecraft named after the ship that had carried Charles Darwin.

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Listening to the radio interview now, Jimi Hendrix sounds the gentle, polite man recalled too by Mr Mayer and Mr Mankowitz.

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In fact, you might argue that, in his polite way, Obama gave too much power to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the outset -- allowing eight years of pent-up Democratic demand for spending to show up (in one way or another) in this stimulus bill.

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But Brendan is sitting here on this panel (Doughan did not show up), so, to be polite, I will try to make my points today without picking on PwC too much.

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