He, however, is not entitled to pretend that he is anything less than aggressively, negatively, nastily, partisan.

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Now it's a tough thing but the Republicans are fighting each other pretty nastily - nasty primary that's unusual Thursday primary.

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The country is also drifting into a resurgent form of virulent nationalism, with a nastily racist edge to it (see article).

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Instead, in the years since, corruption scandals such as the one that blew up this week over coal allocations and a nastily divisive political climate have distracted everyone.

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To some, it carries nastily tribal, exclusive overtones.

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Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).

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Mr Mordechai, a relative moderate in Israel's hardline government, bears the brunt of settler anger: the tone of a week-long vigil by radicals outside his suburban Jerusalem home was nastily reminiscent of the anti-Rabin demonstrations in the weeks before the late prime minister was killed.

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