Despite being inwardly aghast at such a large sum, Basil obsequiously asks if that would be enough; he is even more aghast when Melbury takes him up on this and revises his request to two hundred.
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Instead, the dinner's organizers cozied up to power and obsequiously apologized to the White House for Imus's behavior, as if it had caught the association, which commissioned his behavior in the first place, completely by surprise.
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The emperor further wanted back his written profession of faith, which Euphemius refused to give up, so Anastasius assembled the bishops who were in the capital and preferred charges against their patriarch, whom they obsequiously excommunicated and deposed ( 496 ).
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She found Sang, once " a fit, alert child, with a ruddy complexion ", who had vowed to take revenge on the French for killing his father, turned into a pale, listless man obsequiously painting women's toe nails.
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When the guest opens the door, he finds himself in the presidential suite, complete with floor-to-ceiling windows, a piano, ice sculpture and hors d'oeuvres, the last two obsequiously delivered by the clerk who checked him in.
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We are not sure exactly who the new chief is, but we are sure that he / she is a fine, honorable human being with such a keen sense of humor that whatever he / she says, I can't help but laughing obsequiously.
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It is chilling to see Armand and Albert debase themselves before this stand-in for Pat Buchanan, to see Armand sweating bullets in terror of blowing his cover, and to see Albert, finally unmasked as a man, obsequiously offering reassurances that he believes in family values.
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Valentine said obsequiously before the Mets prepared for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series Saturday, leading St . Louis, 2-0, and seemingly working more with wands than with bats, starting with their Dominican speedster by way of Japan at the top of the order.
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Instead, the GOP this year presided over a budget process that favored the International Monetary Fund over America's taxpayers, deferred obsequiously to the spending wishes of an administration weakened by scandal, and turned on the spending spigots in the best tax-and-spend tradition of the opposition.
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Mahler was, Carr writes, a man of " voracious ambition and unshakable will, " but he was also endowed with " a sense of diplomacy, an ability to pull strings behind the scenes and a readiness to flatter obsequiously when he felt this would serve his cause ."
