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...Benjamin Netanyahu has been feted abroad for Israel’s economic performance....
...And there was something about our prime minister standing with Benjamin Netanyahu and Netanyahu was using the phrase “axis of evil”, which of course, brings back memories of that period 20 years ago....
...Ayoade Alakija Co-chair of the African Union Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for Covid-19 Emily Bancroft President, VillageReach Georges Benjamin Executive director, American Public Health Association...
...It’s too bland!’” said Afshin, Kohinoor’s 58-year-old son, who now runs the restaurant. “[Bacha] said, ‘I’ll invent a masala for the berry pulao.’...
...Mr Duckenfield, 74, had faced 95 charges but under the law at the time. he was not charged over the death of the 96th victim, Tony Bland, who died more than a year and a day after the disaster....
...Benjamin Franklin, only half joking (but then it was hard to tell with him), proposed it as a much more suitable national bird than the glaring, predatory bald eagle....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao and Benjamin Bland China: peak ecommerce?...
...At the other end of the scale, anti-gospel track “Hallelujah Money” has Benjamin Clementine singing dramatically about a world out of kilter as a discordant soundtrack labours the point with heavy-handed...
...The president’s overseas tweets so far have been limited to the type of bland, diplomatic messages that any of Mr Trump’s predecessors might have sent out....
...The songs are pleasant, but undistinguished, and the lyrics are bland. Meanwhile you scarcely need military radar to see the plot twists coming. Will the group fall out?...
...The planned guidelines have angered and alarmed Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing government, which worries they could presage a blanket boycott of all Israeli goods....
...The latter seems too bland, too slippery and unsatisfying a category: too likely to lend itself to the kind of canon formation that flattens out cultural specificity....
...Of course, the mall itself is a development of the arcade, the Parisian glass-roofed archetype cited by Walter Benjamin as the model for 20th-century dreams and desires of consumption....
...Overall it managed to be both classy and bland, particularly sandwiched as it was between the rhythmic heft of Marcus Miller and Robert Glasper....
...But the selection of hymns and readings was bland, consensual – and very unThatcherite. There was no eulogy as such....
...While Brussels is cloaking the labelling measures in bland language about consumer protection and the need to uphold its own laws, the push reflects hardening political and public attitudes on the continent...
...Benjamin Britten : A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, £30, 688 pages Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Six, 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed...
...Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Kildea has done everyone a service by refusing to allow moral judgments to cloud his biographical brief....
...It was the title of Benjamin Britten’s opera to celebrate the Queen’s 1953 coronation, in which Elizabeth I was characterised as a ruler steered by vanity: a questionable tribute by association....
...In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin implored citizens of the new nation to be frugal, industrious and modest....
...Ironically, Autograph is all about independent hotels with distinct personality and character; it was launched last year in the US as a way of reaching customers put off by big, bland, chains....
...The lead is a bland composite of Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock and Tom Courtenay’s Billy Fisher. The whole thing culminates in a slew of speeches and epiphanies....
...The reasons for the quietly compelling attraction of an utterly bland object are, of course, manifold” – oh, that sneering “of course”!...
...A bland statement that culture bridges national divides sounds little better than a cliché. You could maintain the same about beach football or mobile phone technology....
...office blocks and little bland houses....
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