Throughout their careers, the volatile brothers have courted controversy and rarely been out of the celebrity gossip pages. |
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Recognised by critics as one of the most important talents in Scottish theatre, he has courted controversy with his subject matter and style. |
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They moved with a heedlessness and dreamlike courage towards the doom they had so assiduously courted. |
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Certainly, throughout her years in the public eye Goody has been courted, vilified and yes over-analysed. |
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They have also courted controversy, particularly over the infamous deep-fat fryer scene. |
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The two elder sons of the Guru courted martyrdom fighting in action for us. |
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Nevertheless, Treadwell was aware, at least on an intellectual level, that he courted dismemberment or death. |
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A politician in her own right, she was courted by the Republicans to run for her late husband's senate seat. |
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So he assiduously courted the Sun and wooed its boss, soaping them with exclusives and promises of economic responsibility. |
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Media and creative industries are being courted to move into their own quarter around the border of the two cities. |
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This was partly, he believed, because he had not courted the public or succeeded in fashioning a charismatic image. |
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Now they've got the world's attention and are courted by the media and politicians. |
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It has been decades since other world leaders have courted a pope so assiduously. |
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The irony is that until the book, Keane rarely courted publicity and was famed for valuing his privacy. |
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If you have courted public attention then you have less ground to object to the intrusion which follows. |
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He has waffled on doing away with the Patriot Act, courted the gun lobby and promised vigorous dialogue with the right. |
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Unlike all of the other young women, Anne had never been courted nor betrothed to anyone. |
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We courted big box stores and chain restaurants because we had low self-esteem about what our town had to offer. |
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Local politicians, normally passed over by Washington bigwigs, suddenly find themselves courted by all nine of the runners. |
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They aggressively courted famous personalities, landing on a troika who were almost completely new to electoral politics. |
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Although noted for an ability to work outdoors amid crowds of spectators, he never courted attention. |
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He studied Italian grammar to win the approval of the major in the hospital and courted the favor of Captain Paravicini. |
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The male bowerbirds courted the robotic female much as they would a real bird. |
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When a courted female permits mating, the pair remain coupled, end to end, for many hours, even a day. |
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There was a time when controversy was never far from the all-rounder's door, though it was not courted deliberately. |
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Livingstone courted right wing rags like the Evening Standard, writing a restaurant column for them. |
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She watched her older sisters be courted and then married, and she began emulating them at an early age. |
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Paula and Peter grew inseparable, and courted for years, before Peter finally made an honest woman of her. |
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He had a vision, and he courted peril in his attempt to take his dreams to market. |
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When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages. |
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Her studies of pubescent girls and her pictures of her own children in provocative poses have courted controversy wherever they have been shown. |
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So he courted his own fate, he was tricked by an extremely sophisticated ruse and met his death. |
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Smaller groups usually consist of an unmated female courted by unmated males. |
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This wasn't a family that showed what it felt, or courted demonstrative friends. |
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A tsunami of publicity has swept him off his feet and now he has become fleetingly notorious, courted until the interest fades. |
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Morrissey has once again courted controversy by wading into the US presidential election battle. |
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We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach. |
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Males of both species readily courted females of both species. |
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No wonder then that Bollywood personalities are courted by tourism agencies worldwide. |
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Thiam has been courted by politicians and has extensive contacts outside business. |
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For many months, we have courted the KLA, without any decommissioning of arms taking place. |
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Montreal did not simply let itself be guided by an administrative agreement or courted by certain markets. |
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British influence declined among the Amerindians in the region, who now understood the fate that awaited them if they courted American traders. |
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Todays viewers increasingly find themselves courted by a plethora of television channels and have ever more selective viewing habits. |
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African votes in international bodies have probably never been so courted before. |
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The drug helps narcoleptics stay awake, but has courted controversy as the remedy of choice for jetsetters whose multi-timezone lifestyles get them down. |
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In so doing, OSPAR has courted controversy, has at times been provocative and has caused some unease amongst its community. |
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They knew we had courted arrest and had no intentions of escaping. |
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Anne, whom he had courted in 1682, made him lord privy seal and promoted him in 1703 to the dukedom made available by the death of the second Villiers duke. |
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Roeder's attempt to ignite his team's season with a player who has courted controversy at almost every turn was described by critics as playing with fire. |
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Reports leaked that Armie Hammer, Taylor Kitsch, and garret Hedlund were being seriously courted for the part. |
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It courted a substantial reputation as a gaming machine and today continues to enjoy newly crafted titles. |
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It always seemed to me that half the teenage young woman of the community deemed themselves of marriageable age and were out looking to be courted. |
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She was flattered and courted, till the simple, but keen-witted and ambitious peasant girl had her head turned by the brilliancy of this new world. |
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As their creation expands beyond their wildest dreams, they are courted by silver-tongued venture capitalists. |
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Memories flood her mind bringing back images of the man who had once besotted her, courted her and married her, of the man who became her heart and soul. |
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Famously, he successfully courted his future wife, Michelle, by taking her to an organizing training session in a church basement. |
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In the early 1900s political parties courted the new immigrants, he said. |
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Central governments have courted them for support or tried to crush them. |
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Again the Australian referee courted controversy when he seemed to indicate a Scottish penalty advantage but gave none when Blair was duly scragged by the green jerseys. |
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Take oil, Saudi Arabia's economic lifeline, and the main reason it has been so assiduously courted in the past. |
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Mr Thompson has assiduously courted social conservatives, who are discontented with the existing field. |
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He was charismatic and courted publicity, but he had difficulty socializing and neglected his family. |
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Death is courted by fundamentalists and megalomaniacs, radicals and populists, who sustain their power with gunpowder. |
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He has never courted approval, least of all affection, but has continued to stare straight ahead with his own goals always in view, to be attained in his way. |
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In the spring of 1935 she was summoned home because of her father's failing health and, back in England, she was courted by Prince Henry, then a career army officer. |
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Nick De Luca, who because of his Italian ancestry was once courted by Treviso and Viadana, may be one of the few Scotland players who feel at home in Romeon Saturday. |
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While developing the basic infrastructure, various business partners were courted and business models were considered. |
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He's never courted fame, and as a result he's never had his private life impeached upon by the press. |
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It has also had a history of media controversy, which it has actively courted, and has earned extremes of critical reaction. |
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Camp Hill courted controversy again weeks later, when it emerged an arsonist had been mistakenly released 29 months too early from the prison. |
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Besides serving as a foil to the network's conservative mainstays Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, Beckel occasionally courted controversy in his own right, getting into hot water for comments about Muslims. |
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She becomes stepmother to the teen-age Pansy, who is later courted by a young American named Rosier and, for good measure, by Warburton, who will lose no opportunity to draw near to Isabel once more. |
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But, above all, there were a number of us delighted by the sallies of one of the last 'womenloving men of easy virtue' of the century, courted for his shrewdness, his jokes and his address book. |
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Waratah Coal has already courted controversy over the project by failing to properly decommission and rehabilitate 300 exploration drill holes at the site of the proposed mine. |
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The 'black sheep' has been transformed into a skillful and wily politician who reins without sharing power over a petroleum and gas Eldorado that is as much courted by Russia as by the Western powers. |
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Indeed, Africa's leaders still like to think of their continent as a gorgeous bride, with a glittering dowry of oil and minerals, to be courted by a swooning world. |
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Mansell was courted back, apparently, for £7m by sponsors desperate to give the sport the sense of character and oomph suddenly perceived to be lacking. |
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Identity management is being courted aggressively by most major software vendors and numerous smaller firms SLich as Oblix and Netegrity. |
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He believed that he had lost his preferential position with John Major's government – so assiduously courted with Margaret Thatcher – that he was condescended to, and wasn't taken seriously. |
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More than one people, drawn into civil war, has courted collective suicide unawares, and there is no guarantee that humanity as such will not one day succumb to such a risk. |
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She has been in constant transformation, calm and golden, proud and solitary, seventeen times raped, twenty times ravaged, then rebuilt, dressed anew, ever more imposing, more beautiful, more courted. |
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He has aggressively courted African Americans concerned about the racially biased criminal justice system and schmoozed with Silicon Valley donors rarely courted by Republicans. |
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He then courted black votes, partly on practical issues, such as school choice, but also by suggesting that if blacks continue to support the Democrats so monolithically, they risked being taken for granted. |
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In the South he has courted evangelicals and gun-rights absolutists. |
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Actually the Prime Minister courted Mr. Murray to break his on record, oft stated commitment to the people of Winnipeg not to leave his mayoralty to run in the federal election. |
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As the number three political force in the country, it is now the party that will be most courted by those seeking to form the future government. |
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The former defender, who played for Tottenham and Arsenal in the capital, has been courted by the party and recently had lunch with the party chairman, Grant Shapps, amid suggestions he could run for mayor. |
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To acquire their support, Yeltsin initially courted the federal ethnic republics rather than the regions and offered economic and decision concessions to local leaders. |
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It should be noted that these companies are regularly courted by various economic development agencies around the world, which further increases the probability of their projects being implemented outside Québec. |
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In addition, these companies can be courted by a multitude of economic development agencies around the world, which further increases the probability of them carrying out their projects outside Québec. |
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The bank had courted him ceaselessly for years, to no avail. |
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In particular, there is a strong need to develop better lines of communication with consumer groups, many of which are courted by major corporate players that are trying to reduce levels of rights protection. |
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However, Henry successfully courted Rhys, offering the lieutenancy of all Wales in exchange for his fealty. |
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Mary was courted by Duke Philip of Bavaria from late 1539, but Philip was Lutheran and his suit for her hand was unsuccessful. |
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John Lockwood and Alice had met in 1863 and courted at Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire, England. |
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He has often courted controversy and publicity through his vocal views on speeding motorists and the legalisation of drugs. |
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Though Breton admired Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp and courted them to join the movement, they remained peripheral. |
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In 1825 his promotion of the new Zoological Society courted the landed gentry and alienated expert zoologists. |
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Edgar Allan Poe met and courted a love interest here named Sarah Helen Whitman on one of his many visits to Providence. |
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So, cline officials courted state legislators and hired lobbyists. |
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Hirst and Perry too have courted their fair share of controversy. |
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Some erstwhile Bermuda cruisers have courted controversy by misplaying their move. |
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Again, this courted no capital with the state's Dixiecrats, not to mention the Cubans. |
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The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
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They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom. |
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On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying John Cross, a man twenty years her junior, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross. |
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By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted. |
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