Those who are radical about the constitution will be impatient with the trimming of a speech such as Mr Hague's.

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He had said he wanted to die and be buried there but he was impatient of what he considered the slow transformation of the new South Africa.

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For example, I used to be one of the most stubborn and impatient individuals on the planet.

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These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.

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These alternatives can have lower trading costs, avoiding the expenses mutual funds incur by having to be constantly ready to sell investments and provide a lot of liquidity to nervous, impatient retail investors.

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You know, like identifying passengers that may be wincing or frowning or aggravated or impatient or irritated at having to stand in line because of the lack of proper focus on real security threats.

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But this might not be fast enough for the impatient Mr Peltz, who is likely to demand a seat for one of his allies on Cadbury's board, as he has done at Heinz, another of his targets.

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Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.

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But if anything good has come out of all this, it might just be that the old Sudanese government ways of secrecy and stifling bureaucracy have relaxed a little under the pressure of an impatient, watching world.

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