| There's no point to my launching into a spiel about fees, hours of availability, et cetera, if the caller already knows all that. |
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| A candidate in my electoral area, accompanied by his daughter, knocked on my door and gave me the spiel. |
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| As I stopped to check it out I was swooped upon by the salesman and was given the big spiel. |
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| In my volunteering for political campaigns, federal and provincial, I've become fairly ruthless in my spiel. |
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| That is provided no-one had the audacity to doubt the spiel by asking questions, to which the lad had no answers. |
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| This spiel proved the final straw for the judge, who lashed out at the mother like an avenging angel. |
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| And then within minutes, I was actually doing my advocacy spiel on a street corner. |
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| The team got in to a straight line, recognizing the beginning of her spiel. |
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| He got the hard sell from the men, who gave a spiel about the warehouse accidentally giving them twice the number of speakers ordered. |
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| That didn't surprise me, because he definitely hadn't had time to breathe while delivering his spiel. |
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| According to the introductory spiel, this 2002 gig was a private party gatecrashed by a few thousand fans. |
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| Jobs kicked off his spiel with the admission that the last seven months had been pretty ropy for the manufacturer. |
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| Intelligent women know better than to fall for such cleverly camouflaged spiel. |
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| She wasn't finished yet as she continued her spiel without taking a breath. |
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| Had Jefferies described himself in a lonely hearts column, the spiel would have been remarkably similar. |
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| Wood observes that the revised version added a barker's spiel at the beginning and end, which sensationalizes the freaks and their violence. |
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| Like so many people we believed the spiel about Hardy's Bay and were really unimpressed when we arrived! |
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| He was allowed to deliver his well-laundered spiel, unquestioned and unchallenged. |
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| For the course of the game he pretty much serves no purpose greater than giving you a basic spiel on your next mission. |
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| After a bit she told me that the previous time we had met I had launched into an identical spiel. |
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| With the building full to standing room only as he delivers his spiel, there is a definite air of sanctity and reverence. |
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| I bought his spiel, and the pager served me well for many years. |
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| But for a development that must be costing squillions of renminbi, we're wondering why they didn't fork out an extra 100 kuai for a better translation of their PR spiel. |
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| Her husband, also a film star, most laid back, most charming and who I was meeting for the first time, guffawed loudly and candidly acted out an impromptu spiel for me. |
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| I would go into a spiel about comparative government, then lay into Western democracy's shortfalls. |
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| With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers. |
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| He was overweight as well, and as he gave his spiel he sweated and puffed acridity into my smarting eyes. |
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| His closing rant felt true to the night's mood, a characteristically tortured and self-aggrandizing spiel. |
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| This paragraph would be almost good, if it wasn't ruined in its foundations by the whole preceding spiel on values and culture-custom. |
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| The brother met us and gave us the spiel about the dangers of the city. |
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| She was always glad to show potential clients how to apply cream and powders, and did free-of-charge makeovers for anyone with the patience to hear her spiel. |
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| Sorry, I'm making a hash of this, I had this grand eloquent spiel, which has all gone to pot, cos I can't get anything to work to demonstrate what I'm talking about. |
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| My spiel is, if you're fair-skinned, watch for discolorations. |
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| The government can try to get a three minute spiel on the evening news, which it uses to tell Canadians that it will stop all drug production and send all producers to jail for longer terms. |
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| For the Dream and Reality exhibition trigon-film has compiled a cinematic supporting programme featuring works ranging from traditional narrative cinema and desert ballads to genre spiel and modernist reductionism. |
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| Charlie talked such a good spiel with customers that they had lots of advance orders, but now customers were demanding to see results or threatening to cancel. |
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| One company she visited with high hopes is Toyota, where she gave her spiel for the virtues of locating in the Great Lakes State. |
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| A few organizational difficulties marred this spiel and the next, but thereafter most of the wrinkles were ironed out. |
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| When you've heard all the spiel and read all the bumf rammed through the letter box you just want to know what a person is like. |
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| They usually wait patiently for me to finish my spiel about why they and their colleagues should sweat their way through a Saturday morning to save some starving children in Africa. |
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| The gain was primarily due to the introduction of two new on-line games, Wild 5, a new regional draw game, and the addition of a regional TAG or spiel game to the national Super 7 draw ticket. |
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| I won't give you the spiel on what we're doing. |
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| When the crew finally reaches the tribe, they give them their spiel. |
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