Further, the relationship between the residents and state and city officials verged on hostility.
Riot police faced off not with looters but with local residents whose anger verged on mob violence.
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Yet, there were instances where the handling felt a little soft, and verged on the appliance-like feel of the Prius.
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Rather, a concurrent rebellion against industrial production meant that designers were able to envision one-offs that verged on fine art.
The almost magical esteem in which he was held by the acting community fed the rage, which verged on the Oedipal.
Her admiration for Mr Clinton seems to have verged on hero worship.
Early reactions to Kraftwerk were often hostile, and sometimes verged on xenophobic.
But if some looks verged on the ridiculous, that was the point.
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Italian collaboratives, like Archizoom and Superstudio, made witty one-liners that verged on pranks (the palm-tree-shaped floor lamp) alongside more refined riffs on modernism.
After the constitutional court did just that, the PAD ended its six months of street protest which had verged, at times, on armed revolt.
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Ironically, once Egyptian demonstrators verged on toppling Mubarak, the Obama Administration suddenly found virtue in demonstrations in Iran, with ringing statements by Vice-President Biden and others.
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His optimism about the future often verged on the Panglossian.
She uses the wealth of new evidence to examine her subject's extraordinary range of interests, a mercurial side that sometimes verged on unpleasantness, and his ever urgent desire to earn money.
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Letting him do exactly as he wanted, she wore a look in her eyes that he mistook for surprise and shyness, and later identified with moods that verged on madness sequences of perplexity and focus, expressing a hooded rage.
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