"We're friendly enough to squeeze," Mr. Bilbao said.
Senegal, for example, is friendly enough to foreign investors, agricultural and otherwise.
They're friendly enough to talk, but concerned enough not to request their names are withdrawn.
He is friendly enough to reporters he knows personally, but does little more than shake hands and say hello.
The guide said they were friendly enough to stroke, but those ice-blue eyes and enormous teeth said something else.
The troops and the settlers were friendly enough to become Jean Louise Finch's ancestors, and Colonel Maycomb pressed on to what is now Mobile to make sure his exploits were given due credit.
And while they were not using terms like "oasis of justice," Republicans in Trenton were friendly enough to the domestic partnership bill, which extended some rights and benefits to same-sex couples.
It's friendly enough to tourists but as the Hull-born author and poet Russ Litten writes in My People Come From The Sea, there's a tendency to "ignore the rest of the country, face away/lips pursed, arms crossed".
How is it that the Bush administration can so loudly vilify Syria and its president, Bashar al-Assad, while behind our backs be friendly enough to entrust them with our terrorist suspects, guilty or otherwise?
"We don't yet know whether Iraq's new government will be friendly enough to want a strategic partnership, or stable and effective enough to make one work," Anthony Cordesman, a security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, wrote in a recent report.
