Which brings me back to the National Rifle Association, and the danger of disarming.
With a disarming twinkle he adds, "It is hard to know how to safeguard against this!"
Mr. Ross, an imposing figure with a disarming smile, was the last to perform.
The simplicity of his language, the disarming lyricism, and acuity of perception define his greatness.
Saying sorry is rare enough in politics for the effect to be extraordinarily disarming.
Does a policy of leaving the criminals armed while disarming their victims make any sense?
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On the whole it was a disarming, intelligent and politically effective performance: one expects no less.
In addition to disarming critics and delighting investors, Apple has been dishing out lawsuits.
Only when the disarming is done will far more generous aid be on offer.
Mr Palocci is big, amiable, whiskered, and like Lula speaks with a disarming lisp.
For Mr. Obama to have directed scaling back these purchase orders would have been quite, well, disarming.
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That would make the peaceable disarming of Iraq an even more remote possibility than it now appears.
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That is why, despite some reservations from Zimbabwe, they have agreed to the disarming of the Interahamwe.
Unlike most polemicists, Lanier has a disarming tendency to conclude forceful assertions with a moment of cheerful self-deprecation.
Disarming them, or integrating them into the national army, is a key task ahead for Libya's new leaders.
It would pay for locating, disarming and removing mines and other unexploded ordnance in the U.S. sector of Kuwait.
But there is still the room to make a real connection through the disarming authenticity of your personal essays.
The U.S. mission will not include disarming militants or forcing entry in Zaire.
But Zimbabwe, whose troops bear the brunt of the fighting, says it will have no part in disarming Rwandans.
He may have no intention of disarming himself, only of provoking division among the other five across the table.
But he indicated the role would be limited to disarming rebels and collecting weapons if a peace deal were reached.
They have achieved the improbable feat of disarming tribesmen in a society where guns are considered indispensable emblems of manhood.
It is a disarming scent, seemingly innocent at first and then blossoming into confident glamour with notes of jasmine and cedar.
With a disarming innocence, he would question apparently obvious assumptions, drawing distinctions so subtle that they escaped more conventionally brilliant minds.
For his one-time ally Antony to have succumbed to something other than a fellow Roman, she had to be a disarming seductress.
On one side, 64-year-old Boies, an Illinois native with disarming manners and a boyish smile--and a talent for neutralizing very powerful adversaries.
Yet he could also be charming and disarming - opening shareholder meetings with a prayer and eating his lunch in the cafeteria.
Whether that can really make the difference in disarming Iraq is something he would evidently prefer council members to decide for themselves.
Citizens of foreign nations which are busily disarming argue much the same.
Victorian that he was, Wagner could not help viewing Shakespeare's rowdy, devious Elizabethans in a moralistic but sentimental light, sometimes with disarming results.
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