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Bill Carden as Gardner, on the other hand, is terrifically evocative of a wise New England poet-artist (he strikingly resembles the late composer John Cage), and pulls off the demanding task of being in and out of awareness--one minute able to recite Yeats, the next unable to recognize his own manuscript.

Beerbohm himself shrugged off the demands that he try something big.

But the mass media also feed off the demands of their audiences.

By cutting off the demand for private money, we will cut off the special interest influence that comes with it".

The Qataris rejected those allegations and brushed off the demands presented to them last year through Kuwaiti intermediaries.

Although Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, is likely to shrug off the demands and give final approval to the deal tomorrow, the takeover may not go ahead.

The only way we are going to stop this immense flow of illegal narcotics into this country is to shut off the demand for it".

And while employers can often fend off the demands of twentysomethings, when the taxman demands his cut, the tide may be turning.

Thomas argues that the government is resorting to a number of tactics to choke off "the demand for redress", which go beyond cuts in legal aid.

While it may seem counterintuitive, what's needed is a legal ivory trade structured to choke off the demand for illegal ivory that currently is underwriting criminal networks from the killing fields to retail shops.

The emails show the doubts in the Blair camp over how to fend off the demands for a resignation, as well as their anger at what they saw as a coup.