But wild animals have been known to turn on their masters and well-intentioned defenders. |
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Outsiders, however well-intentioned, could not substitute for the knowledge and will of the people of the country concerned. |
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To some he was solid, reliable, well-intentioned and a rugby man to the tips of his bootlaces. |
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To his credit, the well-intentioned pup responds to her cries by burying the kid in toys. |
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He has a job at a lumberyard, a sympathetic boss, and a well-intentioned brother-in-law. |
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Although well-intentioned, this procedure was quite general and did not provide comprehensive guidance. |
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Such limitations may be well-intentioned but have restricted access to sterile injection equipment. |
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But it should be noted that often, those who benefit from such well-intentioned subsidies are actually those who are better off. |
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And yet, paradoxically, never on the international scene has so much well-intentioned and practically-minded support been shown for Africa. |
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Audi made the well-intentioned mistake of taking us from and to the airport in flagship A8 limousines, not one of which rode as well as this. |
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In their fuzzyheaded view from foggy bottom, the federal politicians have made well-intentioned efforts to try to help people who were in need. |
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Having said this, we do recognize that by casting a wide safety net, our policies may exclude some well-intentioned individuals donating blood. |
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In particular, there was a well-intentioned but misguided tendency to avoid penal approaches to canonically irregular situations. |
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The miracle is that there were not more children lost in this system run by so many well-intentioned people. |
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I think one of the hardest parts for my mother was fighting off all the well-intentioned people who tried to drug me. |
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Instead we are shown a quiet, enormously fascinating, compassionate, well-intentioned film. |
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There was also the particular problem that, as well as many decent and well-intentioned people, we got mixed up with some thoroughly dodgy ones. |
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Statistically speaking, a decent, well-intentioned man of integrity and honour must be on the cards. |
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However well-intentioned that allusion might have been, it undercut the work's subtle emotional power. |
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Children using the field to play games will find loose dogs trying to join in their game intimidating no matter how well-intentioned the animal. |
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I think his advice is well-intentioned but it leaves me, as the debate as a whole does, feeling rather uncomfortable. |
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At face value, the changes suggested appear to be well-intentioned, but flawed. |
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So much for all those well-intentioned statements in recent weeks about aid to poverty-stricken developing countries. |
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He has shown how much damage well-intentioned but clueless ideologues can do if they are at the wrong place at the right time. |
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Lee radiates well-intentioned niceness, which is no replacement for stage presence or good material. |
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The appeal is similar to that of any religious organization and the members of the church are as well-intentioned as those of any other faith. |
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The proposal for a refuge, while well-intentioned, is not the solution to the problem of unwanted, abandoned pet reptiles. |
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What miseries were endured, and what injustices were done, because well-intentioned leaders lacked the quality of moral quick-wittedness! |
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The well-intentioned results condescend to both artists and businesspeople while shedding no light on either world. |
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Inconsolable, she struggles to find meaning in her work or the well-intentioned sympathy of her mother. |
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I have none of the guilt that seems to plague many well-intentioned, but frustrated anglophones and francophones. |
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He gave a long and well-intentioned but muddleheaded and boring speech about the whole concept he keeps blathering on about. |
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While well-intentioned and endlessly friendly, many of the volunteers boast more enthusiasm than ability. |
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The well-intentioned exhortation to replace anthropocentrism with biocentrism, if pushed very far, becomes a curious contradiction. |
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It's not a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently. |
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First, you make well-intentioned promises to throw a small, intimate gathering, with minimal frills and no bells or whistles. |
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But it's so well-intentioned and clearly presented, that such success can do no possible harm. |
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But the proponents of separate but equal may also have been well-intentioned. |
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The same is true of so many well-intentioned schemes for the socially disadvantaged and the rural poor. |
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It's wrong because people live messy lives, which don't fit neatly into the segmented programs of well-intentioned officials. |
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I hated how it was brainwashing a generation of bright and well-intentioned children, transforming them into a ghettoized and incurious suburban middle-class. |
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Yesterday's marchers were good-hearted and well-intentioned. |
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Yet some complain that despite government funding and a well-intentioned bureaucracy, co-ops are free to exclude any resident they consider undesirable. |
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The hon. member's bill is well-intentioned, but it seems to miss the point. |
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Otherwise, it becomes too easy to sidestep even some of the most well-intentioned privacy technologies. |
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Carolyn's romance with Pumpkin certainly challenges some well-intentioned, patronizing attitudes about disability. |
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Some of these comments may be careless, some in good faith, some even well-intentioned. |
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Because you're vulnerable, you're at risk of getting bad advice from well-intentioned people and may take it to heart. |
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And as with all cheerful, well-intentioned memes, the Challenge has provoked some good old-fashioned political trolling. |
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Though it is usually well-intentioned enough, at least one form of it should be regarded watchfully. |
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Consequently well-intentioned calls for Canada to do 'this' or change 'that' tend to oversimplify issues. |
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The bottom line is you can't have a well-intentioned social agenda without a sound economic agenda. |
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Inspirierender Berater takes even the most well-intentioned criticism personally and can respond by becoming flustered, hurt or angry. |
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In the absence of such research support, anti-poverty programmes tend to end up as charity and fail in their well-intentioned mission. |
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Even the frighteningly well-intentioned Quiet American of Graham Greene's novel of Indo-China in the 1950s appears to be breathing his last. |
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This may bring a seemingly well-intentioned and effective CCM initiative into disrepute. |
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Another well-intentioned but awful moment. |
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His well-intentioned advice could be formidable. |
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This solution is doubtless well-intentioned, but would be ineffectual. |
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Even the most intelligent and well-intentioned judge can create a mess by indulging in hair-splitting that, at least on its own narrow terms, may seem reasonable. |
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But there have been too many examples in the past of well-intentioned aid being left to rot because it was not suited to local conditions, or because there was not the wherewithal or the expertise to make use of it. |
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All too often, well-intentioned diversity programs do not address the systemic barriers to full participation, nor do they establish specific targets and accountabilities. |
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We hope to educate well-intentioned people to stop feeding the ducks during the fall season at the very least so that we can try and mimic more 'natural' food conditions. |
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This may be upsetting for well-intentioned friends, but it is quite common and should not be taken as a comment on the closeness of the relationship. |
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Perhaps Putin will continue where the hapless but well-intentioned medvedev left off. |
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Unfortunately, this can result in sending a well-intentioned but perilous message. |
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Despite the unresolved allegations of sleaze and corruption, it is a matter of conviction to this writer that the bulk of our politicians are decent and well-intentioned. |
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It reminds me a little of Raising Hope in that it centers on well-intentioned but aimless people who love each other a lot. |
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I countered my friend's well-intentioned censure with an anecdote. |
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The rest of the time he looked less like a hero with mystical powers and more like a well-intentioned English teacher with a penchant for fell-walking. |
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He is a smart, well-intentioned man with a long and distinguished career. |
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It is doubtless possible, from a feminist perspective, to view raksha bandhan as another expression of patriarchal culture, however well-intentioned. |
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In schools, where parents put their trust in teachers and dinner ladies, even the most well-intentioned child can be led astray by vending machines. |
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He's affable but obnoxious, well-intentioned but downright dorky. |
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Furthermore, economic methodologists have created an in-house adaptation of terminology and a way of arguing which makes even the well-intentioned philosopher-listener lost. |
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The booklet is a response to the ongoing denial and minimization that many well-intentioned white people display when they are challenged about racism. |
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However well-intentioned, we are not sure that this bill would be the most effective means of recourse. |
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We want to believe in the rightness of our own conduct, to see our lives as a series of mostly well-intentioned decisions. |
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All Pollack can come up with is desperately well-intentioned hooey, made even more bizarre by the pop-eyed solemnity of the acting and its sheer, baffling unexcitingness. |
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What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile. |
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Hers is the face that launched a thousand well-intentioned blogs and think-pieces on how positive it is to see a woman who isn't white, blonde and Hollywood-thin so confidently hogging the attention. |
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In 1907 a spelunker named Aurel Stein discovered the frayed book and sent it to London, where well-intentioned conservators kept relining it with stiff modern papers. |
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I begin with the presumption that this bill is well-intentioned, intended to be for the advantage of Canada and on the surface it is unobjectionable and even marginally helpful. |
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I do not seek to second-guess the doubtless well-intentioned interpretations of others or to undermine efforts to make the most of the present, exceptionally difficult, situation. |
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The suggestion will come under heavy fire, especially from doctors who argue that the most well-intentioned recommendation to drink alcohol may be the first step on the slippery slope that leads to excessive drink abuse. |
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Although they are well-intentioned, such referrals mean that clients are spun like tops between the staff of a number of agencies when what they need is a constant, reassuring, friendly, and practical person in their lives. |
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If the kids find their grandparents' language uncool, all of the well-intentioned outside help by linguists is usually in vain, except for preserving the language as a museum-piece. |
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This biographical history of the second Seminole Indian War is well-intentioned and usually historically accurate. |
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The debacle that followed America's well-intentioned joining of a UN intervention in Somalia in 1993 had a baneful effect on foreign policy for the rest of the decade. |
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What it does, as is so common with the response from the Conservative Party and the government, is introduce a simplistic analysis, although I know well-intentioned, to a reasonably complex problem. |
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The local community can misconstrue statements by well-intentioned visitors, consultants or other company-affiliated persons as commitments by the company. |
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Perhaps she was well-intentioned but loose-lipped? |
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David Blunkett's promise, doubtless well-intentioned, was ill-thought-out. |
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Instead of becoming spiritually empowered, well-intentioned people continue to submit to externalistic religion. |
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The melodrama is offset by refreshing insight and you have to credit Mr Hosseini with dealing untheatrically with well-intentioned human failing. |
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Recourse to this procedure can protect the coach from the whims, personalities, and oddities of disgruntled parents and well-intentioned, but inexperienced, administrators. |
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It is easy in such conditions to be moralistic, Kantian, well-intentioned. |
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Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled. |
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Although there is no doubt that some agisms are intended as hostile intergroup moves and divergences, there is a great deal of well-intentioned agism. |
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A purely secular morality is based upon meta-ethical, ethical, and moral principles that are subject to some disagreement among well-intentioned and reasonable people. |
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However, by the time of World War II, politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers. |
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