| Second, Gates struck a scrupulously non-confrontational soft line towards China. |
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| I think the format of the debate is very non-confrontational, you know, five minutes. |
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| In any case, a loving, non-confrontational talk about your entire relationship is way overdue. |
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| The letters require tactful, delicate, inoffensive, non-confrontational responses. |
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| Seriously, I think services like this are great for dealing with awkward situations in a harmless, non-confrontational way. |
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| Despite the non-confrontational theme, police violently broke up the demonstration, brutally beating the students. |
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| Contentious issues were dealt with in a non-confrontational manner at a pastoral leaseholders forum held in Carnarvon at the weekend. |
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| We help people explore the prospect of treating their addiction in a non-confrontational style that they won't resent. |
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| I long ago decided not to debate such comments or only fleetingly make a passing remark in a non-confrontational manner. |
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| The Lib Dems have a reputation for promoting a consensual, non-confrontational approach to politics. |
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| His liking for non-confrontational politics looks like a clever sham, a neat way to duck under our perceptions. |
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| The text explicates Cohen's work in a thoughtful and non-confrontational manner. |
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| He is particularly scathing about one member whom he characterises as callous, spineless and non-confrontational to the point of duplicity. |
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| By this time farmers had devised a plan to be non-confrontational. |
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| The secret of their survival has been to keep things genially non-confrontational, and never to allow any member to lose face. |
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| George hopes to achieve social equality by being non-confrontational. |
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| Depending upon its position in the horoscope, Mercury is lies or truth, open or secretive, provocative or non-confrontational. |
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| When it came time to sit in our circle and take turns airing our parenting gripes in a non-confrontational, non-judgmental manner, I quietly took my place on the floor. |
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| Also, he could have backed up his rhetoric with non-confrontational acts such as asking people to hold candlelight vigils in the doorsteps of their houses. |
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