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When we reached El Fasher, Hilal was embraced on the tarmac by the Sudanese colonel in charge of border intelligence.

Mr. McCain was embraced on the stage by Vice Adm. James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate in 1992 and a former prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Pitching his plans for the new economy, Senator John Kerry was embraced on Thursday by an icon of the old, Lee A. Iacocca, the former chairman of the Chrysler Corporation.

Everyone was embraced on this retreat.

Doyle called for war dances to be embraced on sporting fields.

Banks and dealerships are important businesses in every Congressional district, and both their concerns and donations have been embraced on Capitol Hill.

Three things that most greens vehemently oppose genetic engineering, urbanisation and nuclear power should, he believes, be embraced on environmental grounds.Start with genetic engineering.

He experienced the sort of alchemy that occurs when O'Neill is embraced on his own terms, the seemingly leaden-sounding dialogue slowly revealing itself to be theatrical gold.

Texas will be embraced on Saturday when it faces second-seeded Duke at Greensboro Coliseum in the second round of the East Region.

All the tropes that conservatives usually deny in public – that Iraq is another Vietnam, that Bush is fighting a class war on behalf of the rich – are embraced on this shining ship in the middle of the ocean.

The plan has been praised by President Bush and the prime ministers of Britain and Canada, but it is unclear how widely it will be embraced on this continent, where reform-minded leaders and autocrats coexist uneasily.