It's appalling that any president would have the effrontery to lecture the Supreme Court about a pending case.

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Health Minister Simon Burns said he was "speechless" by Ms Kendall's "sheer effrontery" given that the process had been started by Labour.

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Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.

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Despite all the violence, the movie is aesthetically shaped and slightly distanced by the pictorial verve of gangland effrontery the public aggression that Mann makes inseparable from high style.

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Antonio Piazza, a regional PdL leader, is accused of slashing the tyres of a disabled driver who had the effrontery to use a parking bay, reserved for the disabled, in which the PdL dignitary liked to leave his Jaguar.

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