Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling. |
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Thus, well-meant initiatives may occasionally turn out to be confusing and counter-productive. |
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He was always ready to take a joke, with his cheeky but well-meant comments. |
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These predictions may have been spectacularly wrong, but they were well-meant. |
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I trust that this entire exposition will be accepted as a well-meant guidance of God, speaking to everyone through His Word. |
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I like Jack Murtha's comments because I thought they were serious and well-meant and thought through. |
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These well-meant but counterproductive measures served mainly to misallocate the available stock of grain. |
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As such, the industry needs to lobby more effectively to ensure that well-meant legislation may in fact be detrimental to the society. |
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Back at the Central Academy, the path of international understanding is paved with well-meant misunderstandings. |
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I know it's well-meant, but when you've received so much of it over the years it does become rather tiresome. |
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So encourage meaningful or well-meant links, but don't accept presence on link farms as these will probably be penalised. |
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Unfortunately, the type of neighbour who keeps a large, angry Alsatian in a minuscule 11th-floor flat is unlikely to look kindly on your well-meant tips about animal welfare. |
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At first I thought the gift was very thoughtful and well-meant. |
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Why do people react to well-meant attention in such an ungrateful manner? |
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He will be keeping things simple, playing to his strengths and implementing well-meant advice sparingly. |
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Mr DeGrandpre's advice is well-meant but hardly realistic. |
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It was a well-meant, if total, fabrication. |
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I believe horsemen and horsewomen are well-meant. |
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However, some examples taken from other fields of international law, such as disputes concerning the protection of international investments, show that even a well-meant regulation can turn against the State that adopted it. |
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These policies build on the understanding that even well-meant external measures of support can, especially in crisis and war regions, have unintentional negative consequences. |
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In any local situation, there are cultural values and institutions that can support, constrain or even completely frustrate well-meant development programmes and projects. |
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I nearly spontaneously combusted on Thursday after hearing of their latest, well-meant, but totally unachievable proposal. |
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In delivering the responsibilities, companies get lost in well-meant initiatives, which swallows the resources and gives little in return. |
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Despite many well-meant initiatives, everyone is currently still waging their own war against it. |
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In a world so frenetic we often barely have time to even acknowledge each other's existence, let alone be kind, surely a cheerful well-meant word can't go amiss? |
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To those well-meant but worn-out bromides I say, first, what wild? |
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