This coterie, some ministers complain, has made an otherwise accessible chief minister elusive. |
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Each coterie defends a home territory of about one acre from surrounding coteries. |
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We haven't yet reached the point where the coterie begins to jump ship, but they have enough to worry about already. |
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Nor was it particularly funny when he turned up for their first date accompanied by a coterie of managers, friends and hangers-on. |
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No doubt the winner will be most gratified and a coterie of industry insiders will take great interest in the results. |
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Consequently there are situations where even legitimate facts are negated by the scientific coterie. |
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I put on an afternoon tea for my coterie of new international students, inviting former students to come along and share their wisdom. |
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He has numerous houses in several countries and embraces a coterie of celebrity friends. |
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How, you wonder, could she have ended up surrounding herself with a coterie of astrologers, spiritualists and lifestyle consultants? |
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A coterie of students stood close by the stairs to the beach, kicking sand at each other and taking turns leaping into the ocean. |
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The only connection art now has with creativity is through the imaginative hype which is used to sell it to a wealthy coterie of effete fops. |
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And while an elevated status would benefit practitioners, a coterie of design specialists may not be the best condition for culture or society. |
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The less official picture of Marko is of a gangster with a coterie of gunrunners, tobacco smugglers and drug dealers. |
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As a result, many project their frustration on to his unelected coterie, who they imagine are secretly running the show. |
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In 1875, Dan was one of a coterie of five thieves rustling cattle and horses in southeastern Wyoming. |
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They sum it up as a craze about the middle-aged crisis of meaning for a coterie of Yale Law School graduates and their confused friends. |
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Polo has long been a favourite among the royals and their coterie, but it is increasingly accessible to mere mortals, too. |
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Yet the reality is that the minister's enthusiastic support is narrowing to a coterie of his camp followers. |
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Flanked by a coterie of burly henchmen, the Russian oligarch promptly takes to one of the pitches intent on some shooting practice. |
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The leader and his entire coterie are a study in relaxation and resilience going into what should be a trying week at the seaside. |
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Not a cosy coterie of the chattering classes, but people who represent a broad spectrum of opinion. |
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While Aspinall provided the wealthy clientele, the mobsters provided a coterie of highly skilled cardsharps. |
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And President Bashar al-Assad, no doubt, sees that his coterie of regional despots is thinning out. |
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I would spend hours in a delightful daydream where the school bus bully would be thrown around like a sack of potatoes with his coterie laughing their heads off nearby. |
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He once enchanted a coterie of his admirers, myself among them, by replying to a question about his beloved Cathars with a vivid impromptu on Light Religion and Dark Religion. |
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Here the little coterie of friends is to be found on the evening set apart for it. |
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Yet an early coterie of corporate leaders is showing an appetite to follow their lead. |
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He is surrounded by a coterie of compatriots at Orient, and has family in nearby Tottenham. |
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Someone like Rios Mont with his coterie of relations and contacts definitely belongs to those circles. |
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As it is, he has virtually become a prisoner of the coterie around him! |
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Yet as Emily Bazelon revealed in Slate, a coterie of right-wing organizations has indeed lined up to oppose contraception itself. |
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Barbra Streisand and Denzel Washington, along with a coterie of A-listers, have sent their toddlers there. |
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But that hasn't dissuaded a loose-knit coterie of online conspiracists, antiwar activists and Democratic Party operatives from keeping the draft rumor alive. |
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Quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and flirtatious, Anne drew a coterie of men to her, and each would lose his head for her. |
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Turning our backs on centuries of tradition, knowledge and stewardship of the land, we are entrusting global food security to a coterie of unaccountable global corporations. |
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By fostering coterie of highly skilled health researchers, the project is also striving to create positive momentum that will have a lasting ripple effect. |
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Since then, she has accumulated first prizes in different competitions, and the distinctions with which she has been honoured have for some time now placed her in the select and limited coterie of the divas. |
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During the spectacular ballroom scene, Juliet's downcast eyes were astonished to glimpse conductor George Crum rising with a partial coterie of orchestra players around him, until they were peering down on the dancers aghast. |
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Usually, members of the same coterie travel out to establish a new colony. |
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The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie, and does not extend between coteries. |
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In this case, we have a school, or a mode, so beloved that it becomes a sort of default preserve, a universal method that, having originated with an enviable and emulous coterie, ramifies endlessly. |
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Warsi is known to be keeping a diary and there have been fears she will publish it before the election in an effort to expose the upper-class coterie in Cameron's inner circle. |
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Katherine Philips of Cardigan Priory, although English by birth, lived in Wales for most of her life, and was at the centre of a literary coterie comprising both genders. |
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