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...She often pointed out that while her predecessors could deploy suits and power ties – not to mention whiskers and beards – there was no foreign policy manual to guide her on how to use her sense of style...
...With its bulbous nose and long, elegant whiskers, the animal has been read as a self-portrait. Meyer also detects a trace of Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz....
...Houllier took the club into the second division and missed out on promotion to the first by a whisker in 1981....
...The renowned American statesman, Henry Kissinger, had a maxim: “Whatever will be done ultimately, should be done immediately, to prevent needless haemorrhaging.” Ultimately, Britain will leave the EU....
...Its share price has climbed back to within a whisker of the all-time high reached in September. This morning it reported a 15 per cent rise in annual profits, to £340m....
...Foreign currency EM sovereign bonds in JPMorgan’s EMBI-GD index are within a whisker of their value a year ago. “This is a green light for EM risk assets,” said Mr Greer....
...(FT) By a whisker Germany has avoided a technical recession by the narrowest of margins, thanks to strong investment in construction, government spending and personal consumption....
...“The curve steepening and the belief that the Fed is going to continue to hike next year just doesn’t jive,” said Henry Peabody, a bond fund manager at Eaton Vance....
...Perhaps Henry VIII and Neville Chamberlain felt similarly....
...They were thrust into action by a resurgent Freedom party, whose candidate came within a whisker in May’s presidential elections of becoming Europe’s first far-right head-of-state in the postwar era....
...There were families from Salt Lake City and France, and an Austrian couple in a rented RV, the husband sporting splendid whiskers and a huge meerschaum pipe, his wife never emerging from the depths of their...
...The voice came from an elderly gent, salt-and-pepper whiskers, country-pub suit, regimental tie; not the brown rice type at all unless retired brigadiers were going vegetarian in 1965....
...Copper ended a third week of losses to trade within a whisker of its lowest level in four-and-a-half years on the back of weaker manufacturing data from China....
...In summer you can drink on the terrace, behind a glass barrier installed for safety. 20 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 3BY, 0333 772 0020; skygarden.london/sky-pod-bar Satan’s Whiskers This Bethnal Green boîte...
...The stock came within a whisker of his target only six days later, before eventually succumbing to the dotcom rout. “I should have declared victory and gone home,” Mr Garrity said on Tuesday....
...Mike Henry, BHP’s president of marketing, said this week that high-cost Chinese producers were exiting the market....
...This is where author Henry Williamson came while writing his 1927 classic Tarka the Otter....
...Stray whiskers sprout at odd angles, the burn lines at the edge of unburnt paper are sometimes pin-sharp....
...It is extraordinary that Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, the real name of Sax Rohmer, born in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century and who emigrated to New York, should have been the creator of this Chinese...
...Time folds in on itself; Einstein’s whiskers bristle in the wings....
...The play, built around dramatisations of the lurid real-life stories for which the magazine Take A Break is justly notorious, won Fryer and Edmond’s first co-writing commission, for Steve Coogan and Henry...
...As they leaned down to kiss me on both cheeks, I would be scratched by putative beards, fledgling whiskers and a variety of sandpaper textures that were brutal and unforgiving on young skin....
...Credit spreads between junk bonds and US Treasuries are within a whisker of their all-time nadir....
...His mutton chop whiskers do indeed cause him to resemble a disgruntled orang-utan. But wait....
...Nobody embodies the exceptional spirit coursing through the dressing room better than the towering Oram, whose athleticism and batting finesse are astonishing for a man a whisker shy of two metres....
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