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"Miserable" Moscow might have served it better — though, admittedly, would have presented further provocation to the censors.
Yet the Administration's policies — a more apt description, admittedly, would have been "leading from behind the scenes" — were tailored to limiting circumstances.
As in the current batch of local elections, the Kremlin also used the courts, the tax police, and blackmail against its opponents: many of whom, admittedly, would have done just the same given the chance.The Chechen war helped too.
That is not simply the narrow view of a male grandparent who, admittedly, would have little to offer by way of home-cooked meals once he'd served the second dinner of meat loaf, accompanied by a salad of prewashed mesclun and a reminder of his mother's belief that meat loaf is one of the many dishes that always taste better the next day.
Instead of legislating through some semblance of compromise, which admittedly would have riled his base beyond imagination, he opted to reign over a do-nothing congress and bent to the reckless tactics of brinkmanship.
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Admittedly, it would have been hard to top 2009, when Kanye West snatched a microphone from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech, creating a viral video "Kanye moment".
Admittedly mine would have been there at the behest of my employers but, had Pietersen come out to bat, I would have closed my laptop's lid before looking on intently.
Admittedly, he would have been affected by the death of Jorge Lopez, a journalist killed in a car crash on the eve of the semi-final and, briefly, the young Messi's flatmate in Barcelona.
Admittedly, Germany would have to pay more on its own debt than it does today but the exceptionally low yields on Bunds is a symptom of the disease plaguing the periphery.
In the end Pellegrini was given a generous three years to make a case for his retention at the club – admittedly he would have had to achieve something astounding to deflect City from their pursuit of Guardiola – and most people apart from a Ukrainian agent with an axe to grind recognise he fell somewhat short of the mark.
Let's imagine if Deep Throat had had a Twitter account – admittedly it would have a been anonymous or private if Twitter had been invented in the early 1970s.
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