Word: manner
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...Ogata acknowledges that "China will be a strong competitor," adding that there were "positive results" of the country's larger role in African development. She says she hopes JICA and China can collaborate in the manner that Japan does with other countries. In the meantime, Africa can only hope that both of its suitors follow through on their promises...
...Winger as his ex-wife - she's been away from the movies too long - but she mostly lurks on the fringes of the action and is not permitted to develop an arresting character. But then, no one is. Everyone just behaves in what is meant to be a naturalistic manner, which occasionally worked for Altman but just as often left audiences adrift. The trouble with this kind of filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless...
...didn’t have as many chances as we usually have.” On the back of last night’s disappointing performance, the Crimson looks to rebound in its first Ivy League game against rival Yale. Coach Clark expressed his hope that the manner of the defeat would kick his team into gear heading into Saturday’s matchup. “I don’t think you can have any greater motivation going into our Ivy League season,” Clark said. “We believe we are a team that?...
Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician with an engaging manner, a fine track record as a cabinet minister, a worldly outlook and the sort of fresh approach that Japanese politics so desperately needs. None of that did her much good when she recently ran for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party - she received just 46 ballots out of a possible 527. Why did she do so badly? Not just because of some residual male chauvinism, perhaps, but also because she was too obviously the candidate of reform, of liberalization - in other words, she was the candidate...
...column that Sarah Palin's candidacy would be either dramatically successful or dramatically not. What's your feeling right now? I thought she gave an excellent speech [at the Republican convention] and she is a moving and rousing figure. But I became concerned as the weeks passed at the manner in which the McCain campaign was treating her like she was a Fabergé Easter egg - don't drop it! It might crack! I can tell you that her interviews - to the extent that she has thought aloud - have not been impressive...