The standoffishness clearly began in October when the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, asked television news executives to consider limiting their use of Al Jazeera's videos from al-Qaida.
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Kat ( Ms . Williams ), known as Black Ice because of her standoffishness, is wooed by Dr . Mallory ( Chris Noth ), who makes a quick retreat when Kat becomes pregnant.
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Still, the reaction has not been altogether uniform, and some Arab intellectuals who have in the past been outspoken critics of the West have begun to speak out against fellow Arabs for their standoffishness.
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In 1990, Dobereiner described Faldo as " a loner to the point of standoffishness, consumed by ambition, arrogant, self-centred and obsessively driven by the impossible dream of technical perfection ."
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If unwilling yet to make any major changes in our own standoffishness, Washington at least could stop blocking the efforts of our own allies to knit both nations up into working networks of trade and diplomatic relations.
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Smith's standoffishness toward boosters, including those who can be found in 50-yard line seats on Saturdays during the fall, was a fatal character flaw for someone who had no previous ties to the university.
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Because of her standoffishness, I wrote to her parents and said that she really was not adapting well and either that the school had to place her elsewhere in the USA or in Milwaukee OR she had to go home.
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But Hu's visit also touched a chord in Australia that illustrates a standoffishness that lurks beneath that country's increasing involvement with its neighbors-- a let's-have-Asia-on-our-own-terms attitude.
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In sum, after more than a year of standoffishness and fitful involvement, the Bush administration finds itself back where it was last February, when Powell made his first trip abroad to the Middle East and quickly found discussions on broader issues like economic sanctions against Iraq subsumed by the violence.
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-- Washington ( U . S . Senate )-- After a bit of standoffishness over the religious right's run against gay rights and similar issues in the Pacific Northwest over recent years, incumbent Republican Slade Gorton has again turned his attention to conservative Christians, who have become an influential block in generally liberal Washington state.
