For the most part, though, it follows orthodox, sound-money policies that would have made previous Fund missionaries faint with surprise and admiration.
But coming off the bottom of the table now looks a faint hope with the Dons seven points adrift of Killie with three games remaining.
Over them he buttoned a cuff-frayed and graying black cassock with its faint stink of him, waisted it with a hand-wide black cincture, snapped on a starched white Roman collar, and laced on his ankle-high black walking shoes.
The process often leaves tasters with faint smudges of brown coffee at the tips of their noses.
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Usually, the most the opposition can do is praise with faint damns.
The other objects were either too faint or blended with their neighbours or affected by other artefacts, so that accurate measurements were not possible.
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Equipped with a flat underside and cupped upper shell that resembles a skewed dome, they are etched with faint concentric lines that recall growth spurts.
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"I take some satisfaction in being right, " he says, with a faint chuckle.
Dad was in his regular clothes, with the faint greasy streaks of black on his neck and behind his ears.
Exactly two hours later, the chairman, a short, bald, stocky man of about 50, greeted me with a faint smile when we shook hands.
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Greenwich Village has delightful, leafy streets filled with townhouses and the extremely faint whiff of the neighborhood's bohemian past mingles with the well-heeled queuing in front of Magnolia Bakery.
Many others, however, dismiss the compact with so much faint praise.
Northern Ireland's faint hopes of qualifying were extinguished with a 1-0 defeat to Spain.
Second-place Borussia Dortmund kept up their faint hopes of retaining their title with a 3-0 win at home to fourth-place Frankfurt.
Then I was staring at my hand again, the fingers slightly parted, the skin of the knuckles like small walnuts, the nails with vertical lines of faint shine.
But in the repeated curve of her thigh and calf he saw shapes like sea shells, with the luminescence and faint muscular rays of the great chambered nautilus.
It is a result that may not suit either side with Villa's faint hopes of Champions League qualification all but extinguished and Everton's drive toward the Europa League spots losing momentum.
One faint hope for the protestors lies with a local historian whose book claims that the Battle of Hastings was actually held on the route of the road near Crowhurst - a possibility dismissed as "ridiculous" by the council.
As Old Trafford celebrated at the final whistle, Ancelotti cut a predictably disconsolate figure with only the very faint prospect of challenging United for the title left in his attempts to follow up the Premier League and FA Cup Double he claimed in his first season.
Scientists have used chromophores for decades to detect chemicals, but, until Fido, they weren't sensitive enough to detect trace explosives because each molecule of TNT vapor would switch off just a single chromophore, with the result that faint wisps of evil chemicals caused no visible change in luminosity.
"Don't try to be like them, " said the 26-year-old with a round face and a faint mustache.
On a recent Sunday morning, after services at the tiny Lebanon Lutheran Church in Amidon, local farmers talked about their plight with a mixture of exasperation and faint hope.
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"Stuck in a Moment" is an inspirational number that combines a modern-day gospel feel with an ascending horn line and a slightly faint, yet powerfully flavorful organ.
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The 36-year-old reached 46 before he got a faint edge to a lifting ball from Broad, leaving him with only one half century in his last 10 ODI matches.
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The sky beyond is washed with strokes of cobalt and cerulean blue, and a faint but perceptible smell of aniseed and wild garlic hangs in the air.
Subsequent observations with an infra-red telescope, which can see things that are too cool to shine with visible light, showed that it was a very faint star so faint that it is off the bottom of astronomers' scale of stellar classification.
The book is rife with stoically related medical detail so vivid as to make the faint-hearted squirm.
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