Nato enlargement tend to follow a sterile pattern of warnings, tantrums, sulks and grudging acceptance.

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Conceding the successes of currency boards, the IMF has come around to a grudging acceptance of them.

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Under Tony Blair it appeared to have moved to a policy of grudging acceptance of private schools.

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Yet France is caught between grudging acceptance of the poll and lingering indignation over how it came about.

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But Mr Harper won the grudging acceptance of battle-weary sawmill managers, and the provincial politicians who administer the forests.

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This won at least grudging acceptance across a broad spectrum of American Anglicanism.

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The move to introduce votes for prisoners is hardly one that is likely to win much popular support and the reaction from politicians has ranged from grudging acceptance to outright hostility.

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