Amid the drums of war Iran, too, has been sounding a quieter leitmotif of compromise.

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The giant sucking sound emanating from the South and West, another leitmotif of American demographics, continues unmuffled.

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Which, of course, is another battle entirely - and one which is the leitmotif of this parliament.

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Gone, for the moment at least, is "surrender" - the leitmotif, if not the stated purpose, of Jim Baker's Iraq Study Group.

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As befits a project overseen by bureaucrats in Brussels, the search for an overarching Grid standard for many different science projects has become a leitmotif.

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The call for new humanism was a leitmotif throughout the discussion.

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It certainly was the leitmotif of his first week in office.

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Carrying on the Zen leitmotif, the organic cocktail list includes a Detox Margarita mixed with agave nectar and a Desert Rose Cosmopolitan, enhanced with prickly pear.

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UN, is the leitmotif of the book.

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Such is the leitmotif that courses through the tale, echoing worries from earlier Anderson films: a sharp sense of orphanhood, affecting young and old alike, and redeemed only by the chance to belong to a choir, to a clan, or to the heart of a fellow-loner.

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