Rather, he says that introducing a ban without a political consensus is likely "to antagonise voters".
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Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
Al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya are careful not to antagonise their respective Qatari and Saudi sponsors.
Is that because you don't want to antagonise a large part of your wealthy readership?
They have little desire to antagonise the people who run an increasingly powerful China.
Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents.
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As often happens with compromises, it is liable to antagonise true believers at both ends of the spectrum.
They dare not antagonise their supporters in the bazaars with a programme of privatisation, deregulation and freer trade.
"I would not be going out there to antagonise the Australians in any way, shape or form, " he said.
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Even some Polish fund managers say that the proposed codes must not antagonise big investors on the Warsaw bourse.
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But if it is dangerous for Republicans to antagonise the tea-partiers, is it also dangerous to flirt with them?
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The snag is that an overt blocking move would antagonise Germany's elite, which sees enlargement as a strategic and moral imperative.
England fans flying the cross of St George on their cars could antagonise Welsh fans, according to the deputy chief constable of North Wales Police.
Defending barrister Sion ap Mihangel said it was clear that the neighbours had fallen out and his client felt they were continuing to antagonise him.
Perhaps Oracle has managed to antagonise Ms Kroes by not taking her seriously and accusing the commission of destroying jobs by holding up the merger.
Japan has been loth to antagonise America by formalising the caucus.
"It's very important to keep your head down, not to antagonise them (the kidnappers) in any way, not to get agitated or indeed violent, " he said.
But Victoria Nuland, the state department spokeswoman, added that it was a separate issue "whether it's politically smart or helpful to be taking steps that antagonise countries".
Mrs Gandhi's Congress party, headed by her daughter-in-law Sonia Gandhi, is in power in India at the moment and the paper suggests distributors may not be willing to antagonise it.
Shy of confrontation at the best of times, Mr Abbas does not want to antagonise Fatah people by weakening their influence on the security forces, and Mr Fayyad cannot push reforms through without his backing.
But he refuses to equate the interests of the welfare state's consumers with the interests of its workers, whom he has already begun to antagonise by creating a regime of inspectors to weed out bad teachers, social workers and doctors.
With his jut-jawed defiance and on-going dialogue with referees, he could antagonise opposition fans as much as he was adored by England and Wasps supporters, but his assessment of himself is as up front as the way he plays the game.
President Obama has raised it once or twice, but knows it is not a vote winner and is keen not to antagonise coal miners further - especially in Ohio - with talk of carbon taxes or cap and trade and the like.
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