In turn, the armed forces have haughtily declared they will no longer take cash from the United States (on whom they have long depended for handouts).

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And unlike Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who haughtily declined to meet a delegation of Muslim ambassadors, Mr Reinfeldt took the initiative to invite them in for a chat.

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The smaller children, smelling the ghee cooking on the griddle, crowded around, watching the brown sugar melt, and finally even the older girls came in, though they stood haughtily to one side.

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When I acted in my first professional play at fifteen, people said, "Oh, you take after your grandmother, " and I haughtily replied that I took after my father, a renowned trial lawyer who had great stage presence.

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