On some occasions, he came perilously close to this extremity, shunning his female groupies in truly humiliating ways. |
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Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions. |
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He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight. |
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An increasing number of wise consumers are shunning the shop-rage experience for a simpler, calmer and efficient alternative. |
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To many folk it sounds as if I'm being lazy, or being a backslider, or shunning the group. |
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Zellweger again ballooned to a size 14 for the plump part by bingeing on pizza and shunning all exercise. |
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Meanwhile, seniors are shunning the new prescription coverage ballyhooed by the White House. |
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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity. |
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Shaken by the first case of mad cow disease in Japan, consumers have been shunning traditional beef dishes such as shabu-shabu. |
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The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children. |
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In the worst cases, sufferers can shut themselves away indoors, shunning all social contact. |
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Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it. |
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Unlike the blackbird, the ring ouzel is usually wary and wild, shunning the neighbourhood of human habitation. |
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While Wilkinson has been shunning the limelight, Dawson is relishing the attention that has been lavished on him. |
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Humans generally held him in high contempt, showing disdain for him in some places, utterly shunning him in others. |
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The country people were shunning the fruit because flies, which settled on dead rabbits with myxomatosis, also alighted on brambles. |
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To eat alone by choice, shunning friends at mealtimes, would be another loss. |
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By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning. |
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The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress. |
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An orderly life includes mental as well as physical equilibrium, and shunning all evil thoughts. |
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There were allegations of exclusivism, hurtful practices like shunning, as well as an overbearing doctrine of personal sin. |
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Operators are shunning Playboy's Spice Platinum, a new group of channels with graphic hard-core fare. |
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Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples. |
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She still spent most of her time shunning female attire and dressing mainly in male military clothes. |
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The first step was shunning sugar and weaning herself from wheat, an experience Beals reckons is similar to the experience of withdrawing from drugs. |
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He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails. |
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Avoid holiday debt by shunning that temptress of a shopping companion who can charm you into a pile of debt-your credit card. |
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They used what savings they had to buy western goods, like tableware, effecting a change of status, and shunning local goods. |
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So, who has kept to the letter and spirit of the accord more and who has been more egregious in shunning it? |
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Americans are shunning soda and claim they want healthier fast-food options. |
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From there, he spent a few years shunning various film and television offers. |
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By resolutely shunning money, his campaign forged alternative tactics, all of which were explained in detail on healey's blog. |
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A firming dollar and falling stock prices are typically signs of investors shunning riskier assets, including commodities. |
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The slaps in the face, shunning and hateful responses came from the most unsuspecting places. |
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Not surprisingly, the initial aims of the association mainly concerned matters of mutual accord in the areas of trade and economy, shunning politics and the military. |
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Like other religious conservatives, they tend to be adamant in their strict interpretations, shunning those who disagree. |
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These Elves consider themselves the upholders of pure elvish tradition, shunning their High Elf and Shadow Elf cousins. |
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Consumers are shunning big-ticket items such as motor vehicles, signalling that confidence is no longer sky-high. |
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In his third production of the play, Hall draws out that dreamlike quality with mesmerising force, shunning stunt casting or tricks for a beautifully clear production. |
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As we've seen in cases prominently described by the media, men have acted, or shall we say, overreacted to shunning, alienation and accusation. |
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Our contacts with SLI colleagues testify to the way in which AIIC is reaching out to ever more groups and shunning isolation. |
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White captures how lonely people get trapped in a vicious circle, shunning social events because being alone is more comfortable. |
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These range from stigmatization to shunning and discrimination against them and their families. |
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At my school where we are encouraged to work in groups, I have experienced rejection and shunning from people in my faculty who are by the way, training to become teachers. |
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Progress on human rights will not happen by shunning Colombia. |
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The only other country to get similar treatment is Mexico. A more flattering comparator is South Korea which, like Poland, has let its currency slide, while shunning the deficit-swelling policies of Britain and America. |
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He also finds it tragic how western governments have escalated the crisis with their support of NATO while shunning the United Nations, having multiplied the number of refugees and produced civilian casualties of their own. |
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The central figure, the poet Lenz is a compulsive walker, incapable of staying still: he walks in the snow, shunning the world and its machinations, numbed by fatigue. |
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Some famous people make the mistake of shunning social media or using false names, leaving the field open for imposters who can do serious damage. |
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We and our families will pay the price in terms of disability and death for the coalition government pursuing the responsibility deal and shunning more effective policies. |
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Several other European countries, such as Italy and Spain, are going through their own banking consolidation, and are shunning cross-border mergers, preferring to find economies at home. |
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They are not shunning the political party system. |
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Wilde was freed from Holloway and, shunning attention, went into hiding at the house of Ernest and Ada Leverson, two of his firm friends. |
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At the household level, disabled children and their families often develop low self-esteem, hiding away and shunning social interaction, which can lead directly to their exclusion from education. |
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They are not shunning the party system in favour of extra parliamentary political activism, such as anti-globalization or environmental group activism. |
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The Assembly debate carefully avoided any mention of fighting terrorism, thus shunning warlike language in order to show that it was more concerned to analyse the causes of this phenomenon and find ways of preventing it. |
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Some New Agers advocate living a simple life, trying to reduce your impact on the world by embracing environmentalism and shunning consumerism. |
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The phenomena of community action, shunning, scapegoating, generosity, shared risk, and reward are common to many forms of society. |
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They preferred careers in the government bureaucracy, the military, or the church, shunning economic activities. |
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Communal punishment for wrongdoing generally included compensation by the wrongdoer, corporal punishment, shunning, banishment and execution. |
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It emphasised contractual freedom and alienability of property, while shunning legal technicalities and deciding cases ex aequo et bono. |
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He took up residence in the ribat of Abu Sa'd facing the Nizamiyya College, shunning the world and turning toward God most high. |
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Usually, compensation and shunning were enough as a form of justice. |
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They do this by advertising exclusive parties and benefits for members, as well as physically shunning and pushing you away if you try to include yourself. |
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Its intellectual, fantastic and apolitical lyrics and its shunning of rock's blues roots were abandonments of the very things that many critics valued in rock music. |
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