Victims of the whimsical monsoons and fickle market prices, these poor farmers have very little control over their destiny. |
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Rock music is a harsh world, presided over by a fickle, unforgiving public. |
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Now the impression is of a fickle politician who has lots of ideas but no staying power to see them through. |
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What I like here is that people really pay attention and they're not so fickle. |
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I'll tell you why guys are so fickle at times, if you'll tell me why so many cool girls go ga-ga over creeps. |
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Doves are the flightiest and most fickle of game birds, particularly this time of year. |
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The masses were, in brief, shortsighted, selfish and fickle, an easy prey to unscrupulous orators who came to be known as demagogues. |
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They are fickle reflections of a more profound public disengagement from the political process, parties and institutions. |
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When women speak, they frequently challenge the old elegiac poses of the constant lover, a fickle mistress, and his servile devotion. |
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Ah, but voters are fickle and rarely take into consideration the desires of distant princelings. |
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Your accurate prognostication has spanned relationships, business transactions, even the fickle weather. |
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And, with no dragons, monsters or trolls around to hunt, clearly something had to be done before the fickle finger of fate intervened. |
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Critics trounced it, because that's what they do... they're fickle like that. |
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Again it was to prove a fickle promise as Costello negatived it at the other end just five minutes later. |
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The Bretons were reputed to be fickle and changeable, and were often reproached for the death of Arthur. |
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Pop culture trends are notoriously fickle, of course, and tastes can change overnight. |
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Events in Bournemouth last week demonstrated how febrile the political atmosphere is at present, and how fickle the interpretations by the media. |
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Likewise, you really have to rush that stage from the beginning as first impressions count in the fickle minds of rap fans. |
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My superiors however are fickle and dance to a different drum than I do, so it would pay for me not to get my hopes up too high. |
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Unlike Fred who is a creature of habit, I am far more fickle, always in need of new experiences, change and variety. |
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They are, like Lincoln, using fickle political morality as the road to political power. |
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Holidaymakers are a fickle lot, and the next time they might just stay away once and for all. |
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But fashion is very fickle and sometimes the things you hate the most end up inspiring you. |
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They'd allow people to enjoy the nice weather, which can be unmercifully short and fickle. |
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It's important to do that, because human nature is fickle when it comes to responding to surveys. |
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I think another interesting feature of this debate of course, is how fickle public opinion is. |
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This is a fickle business where tastes, music and fashions can change at a whim. |
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Keeping up with the fickle tastes of fashion is not always easy for the Dutch bulb industry. |
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My fickle midwestern mother-in-law broke into loud ululations over the cherry strudel, with its vanilla ice cream and dusting of powdered sugar. |
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Yet he knows such things are fickle and there's a weary guardedness about him. |
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Timon, in the last act, is followed by his fickle mistress, after he was reported to have discovered a hidden treasure by digging the earth. |
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The words, which contain a lover's pathetic expostulation with his fickle mistress, are set for four voices. |
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In a land of palm trees and a time of eternal summer, the destiny of a pluviophile rested in the fickle hands of the clouds. |
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Sure, you can steal the photocopying toner from work and queue-jump at the bakers, but the Dark One is fickle with his acolytes. |
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Fly through passes in mountainous terrain where venturi-fed winds can be fickle and unpredictable, and all bets are off. |
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The city has always been a hot spot for youth culture and dance music, safely tucked away from the fickle world of London tastemakers. |
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The wind blew it from east to west with fickle tempestuousness, and a violent spray of it hit Pieta's cheek. |
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This means you might pay for a survey on a house you don't get, but fickle buyers can't mess you around. |
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Why let fickle rock journalists and tone-deaf music fans control that myth? |
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I'll spare you the individual punches, but it was a very fickle and pointless affair centred topically on the BBC website. |
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The nation as a whole is too varied, fickle, inconsistent and unclassifiable for that to work. |
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However, Saunders' side slumped to a 2-1 defeat in a match that proved just how fickle they were. |
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A fickle, south to south-easterly created problems in setting a common course for the two mass starts for dinghies and keel boats. |
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But even this was something that should never have happened but for the fickle hand of fate. |
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The sky cleared, the sun came out and the race started on schedule, albeit in a very light, fickle north-westerly. |
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The true gods are fickle and capricious and care little for the affairs of men, but the piper was different. |
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However, the Big Easy is fickle, and if it doesn't take to you right away, you will receive your eviction notice without ceremony. |
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A generation will grow up even more fickle than before, hyper consumers, hedonists. |
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Notwithstanding those difficulties the biggest problem facing any publisher is chance and fickle fortune. |
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Then they quickly realised that markets are fickle and that column inches in newspapers are no guarantee of share price performance. |
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I also know that we fickle, inconsistent humans come equipped with varying abilities to perceive flavors. |
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Thus the fickle finger of fate swings again, with Piers as a Time Lord of Liberty. |
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The past winter seasons were not optimum for main of the French winter sport resorts because of a fickle snow coverage. |
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Furthermore, love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. |
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Modest-sized places like Keswick and Sutton are firmly linked to the culture of farms, small businesses and the fickle whims of seasonal tourism. |
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These forgotten artists in particular are telling and powerful fame is a fickle mistress, and the ever-changing hip-hop culture leaves many behind. |
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Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along. |
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His piece highlights the fickle nature of Australian politics. |
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To record the woes of authors and to discourse de libris fatalibus seems deliberately to court the displeasure of that fickle mistress who presides over the destinies of writers and their works. |
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Are we really expected to be these over-educated, fickle job hoppers? |
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The fickle old tentacles of fame have already had far-reaching effects. |
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Jenkins then goes on to discredit younger consumers as fecklessly fickle. |
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Forever fickle, he has now become interested in old wooden carvings. |
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The public is not only fickle, but has a extremely short attention span. |
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Let us say that on a rare, windy day in Waterloo, someone leaves a copy of our beloved Imprint on a bench outside, completely at the mercy of the fickle, capricious wind. |
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The rule of thumb is that if a store has lasted over 30 years in this fickle climate then, clearly, the owners are experts deserving of your custom. |
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He went out on a day in which he had to share equal billing with that fickle lady, Mother Nature, and finally got his score under par and his name on the leader board. |
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Those of us who live here are a fickle bunch with fleeting attention spans. |
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However hard the science there's always scope for things as fickle as fashions in funding to affect how different future histories envision our development. |
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And sales, those tricky little figures so dependent on the wants and whims of a fickle public, were impeded for that very reason. |
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Perhaps his story is a reminder that life is fickle, and what we have today, can be slowly, or suddenly, eroded away, depending upon our choices, and the events of life. |
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However, we consumers are a fickle lot when it comes to dining out. |
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Although all turns out fine in the end, the ending is not typical and it even finds time for self-reflective comment on the fickle nature of the movie industry. |
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The Rwandans interviewed thought that Burundians were not intelligent, that they were fickle and nasty. |
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It's just your brain's been addled by too much contact with us fickle continentals. |
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At a fashionable evening party irresolute women and fickle men wander about like so many ships lost at sea. |
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But Lady Luck is a fickle mistress and I certainly wouldn't bet the farm on her. |
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They can be fickle, not very reliable, boastful, loud, quick-tempered and chatterboxes. |
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By the time Kent died in April 1748 the fickle eye of fashion had moved on to the neoclassicism of the Adam brothers and the Gothic revival. |
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Scales can seem extraordinary fickle at times, with weight fluctuating by nearly 1kg from day to day. |
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But the Tea Party's fickle and hive-like nature virtually demands that Cruz cycle out of the spotlight eventually. |
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Politicians often claim to be upholding high values when they are really just reacting to fickle public opinion. |
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The tourism industry is competitive and fickle, which means that only the best products in the correct locations will succeed. |
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And though critics warned of a short-lived memory on the part of a fickle public, Gould put himself before the world on his own terms. |
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From mid summer, prices, volumes and volatilities all improved, however sentiment proved fickle and trading conditions remained problematic. |
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Mr President, Parliament, I am afraid, is proving itself again to be rather fickle on the issue of Turkey. |
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The other elephants in the zoo have long been annoyed by fickle Francois and his French accent. |
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The faith of the fickle minded, the friendship of the serpent, the sweetness of the cane and the reliability of the kings are mythical! |
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The Team took advantage of fickle market conditions to add to holdings at advantageous prices. |
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It forces Quebec to make do on a case-by-case basis, and its effectiveness is subordinate to the political will to negotiate on the part of the federal government, which has so far proved rather fickle. |
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Funding contingency plans: While successful tourism will be a good source of funding, it may not be reliable, given the fickle nature of the industry and that trends are difficult to predict. |
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We are not so fickle as to behave any differently this year. |
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Make your fortune part in an exciting world where the customers are fickle and the bounty in your cash register changes as quickly as their tastes. |
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Changing tastes and fickle buyers are a consistent problem for flea market wheeler-dealers. |
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But Comte aspired to free himself of a tutelage that weighed ever heavier on him, as he found the unmethodical and fickle mind of the self-taught, philanthropic aristocrat barely tolerable. |
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But such fickle behaviour has nothing to do with emotional flakiness. |
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How can the fickle, rootless and irresponsible Bruno, a thief and a liar drifting in a world of unreality and fecklessness and totally addicted to all forms of instant gratification, become the father of this child? |
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However, since investor sentiments are fickle, it is not possible to predict when or how turmoil in the financial sector might take hold in markets in the region. |
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And the rag trade is as footloose as its customers are fickle. |
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In recent years they have embraced it with varying degrees of enthusiasm, but suspicion of inconstant foreigners remains. Are multinational corporations really any more fickle than purely local employers? |
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Children who may need supplements include vegetarians, vegans, those with ailments like cystic fibrosis and those with poor appetites or fickle eating habits. |
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It has authorized him to confidently pursue his own fickle and wayward inclinations, permitting him to indulge his habitual tendency to a passionate spontaneity of taste without worrying about tensions or lack of unity. |
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Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity. |
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In much of the region rutted roads and fickle seas are a far bigger worry. |
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Pop is a fickle business, its stars wax and wane. |
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Without the fickle whims of a cameraman it would have taken no more than a minute for Francois Bon and Mathias Roten to scream down them, overloading themselves on the raw adrenalin of this exciting new sport. |
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We must avoid the illusion of thinking we should produce for avant-garde audiences, the intelligentsia, because they are the most fickle, the most volatile, the most ungrateful of audiences. |
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Dave was as steady and solid as she was fickle and fly-away, and in some way Dave, who never doubted anybody, doubted her. |
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He discovered that water molecules are fickle neighbors. |
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As someone who has experienced the music industry first hand, the points O'Connor made about its fickle nature and how hyper-sexualisation of women roars throughout, to some extent, are correct. |
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This points the fickle finger of guilt at the White House itself. |
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Courting a fickle public had been a core part of war strategy. |
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Plus, social media users are also notoriously trendy and fickle. |
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Trying to be down with the kids has often left film-makers lost, desperately appealing to a fickle audience who are busy moving on to the next craze. |
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Analysts consistently warn that while Sisi currently has the backing of many sections of society, the electorate has proved fickle in the recent past. |
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Just as a decoy car prompts a buyer to reconsider, a decoy mating call can make a female tungara frog fickle. |
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Much lighter and half as costly, single-speed bikes like the Sass by Bianchi offer a fun ride free from fickle, tough-to-tune high-tech bikes and their touchy derailleurs. |
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The allegiance of Burgundy remained fickle, but the English focus on expanding their domains in the Low Countries left them little energy to intervene in the rest of France. |
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The new world order has given way to an orderless world, in which reliability and predictability have given way to rapid shifts in focus and fickle commitments. |
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So by wildsome ways in strange countries and through many waters and valleys rode Martimor forty days, but adventure met him none, blow the wind never so fierce or fickle. |
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The sale was one of the largest privatization deals made in Turkey, though past rounds of bidding for the gas giant were scrapped over payment disputes and fickle bidders. |
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