Yet clearly, events have only strengthened your natural instinct for tolerance and mutual respect.
Mr O'Meally's sense of category is as finely tuned as his instinct for good singing.
But I am very wary of my own instinct for retribution, and of yours.
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And Mr Djukanovic is a phenomenally clever politician, with an unerring instinct for survival.
In "the East" there is that age-old instinct for reading the wind and riding with the victor.
He relishes crunching numbers, and has an instinct for plain talk as well as for broad comedy.
Then, in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, and Mr Kohl displayed a sure-footed instinct for the big moment.
The cool Mr Aznar has a canny instinct for what it takes to keep a country on course.
Since then, Mr. Cue has displayed an instinct for doing what the customer wants, not what's technically possible.
Inevitably, the present crisis has encouraged the prime minister's instinct for detaching himself from the fray of party politics.
Having spent most of our adult life in the opinion journalism business, we are no stranger to the instinct for provocation.
Clients were impressed by him because he had a sure instinct for what would sell and who could best realise it.
But instead of exploring that instinct for the benefit of their readers, they glossed over it and deceived them as a result.
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Basically every entrepreneur has an excellent instinct for the next (big) opportunity.
The instinct for imitation is still strong: houses can be bought in one of six styles, including Mediterranean, New England and Old South.
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After all, until this week Mr Jospin, with his Protestant instinct for cleaner politics, had studiously ostracised politicians from the manipulative Mitterrand era.
Bagehot had expected the Conservatives' instinct for self-preservation to silence this internal conversation for at least the final few weeks before polling day.
Instinctively cautious, she frets over lyrics and arrangements, her instinct for simplicity a counterbalance to the kitchen sink approach of her producer (and brother), Rollo.
Few are likely to accept that they are duty-bound to follow opinion polls, even if their instinct for self-preservation may drive them in that direction.
Yet the Austrian bank seems to have an instinct for survival.
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Veeck is the son of the late Bill L. Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner, and he inherited more than a little of his father's instinct for confrontation.
At the highest levels in Germany they want Britain to remain at the heart of Europe. (The two countries share an instinct for free trade and an open economy).
When the Germans occupied the city in 1939, Nazi officers, with their unerring instinct for such things, seized the huge home, and made baleful use of it until the end of the war.
So whatever the motive for Ms Shepherdson's departure, there are likely to be some people within Topshop who are worried that her instinct for fashion will be missed, even if others are betting her legacy will endure.
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The usual British position about the way to handle disagreements with the Americans, exaggerated by Mr Blair's instinct for getting on with people, is that real influence depends on saying what has to be said behind closed doors.
Jonathan Knee, a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley who has negotiated with Mr. Sillerman, says the investor has an "incredible instinct for good business" and always was careful not to let star power influence entertainment-business decisions.
He has an instinct for weaving sturdy narrative fabric out of intersecting plot lines: While Nick keeps the city gawking, his brother, Joey (Jamie Bell), and Joey's girlfriend, Angie (Genesis Rodriguez), are busy breaking into the building across the street, owned by evil real-estate titan David Englander (Ed Harris).
Their instinct is for the state, not the preferences of consumers, to shape public services.
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