By being unusually patient, he hopes to create businesses that rivals will find harder to assail.

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Yet somehow Davis seemed to have almost unlimited money with which to assail Snow.

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Paul Krugman turns up in one of the UK papers to assail the Republican war on science.

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If it's a foreign policy group, its representatives will assail the foreign policy record of the other side.

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Mr Khatami's own tactful and amiable style has protected him from the fierce assaults that assail his allies.

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At the same time, threats assail viewership in many other media properties.

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The protestors rightfully assail the bailouts of banks and Wall Street executives, but their solution is more of the same including bailouts for student loans and individuals who took out mortgages on houses they could not afford.

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It is difficult to think of anyone better suited for those tasks than Mary Jo White, or anyone better able to then stand up to the critics who inevitably seem to assail the SEC on both sides.

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Their candidates are now able to assail Mr Bush for damaging American diplomacy, and its store of global goodwill, without seeming weak on Saddam Hussein, and without undermining the support they will give to American soldiers if and when fighting starts.

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