But a system that propels nonentities to the front does not lend itself to dictatorship either.

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Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever.

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"That does not lend itself to long-term monitoring, which is what you need if you want to study things like climate change, " he told BBC News.

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The issue of moral hazard is one that does not lend itself to being satisfied by these actions now that the compacts and budgets are in place, this risk is measurably less so.

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Whether policy experts believe that Mauricio Funes and the FMLN will do their best to follow the Chavez model or they accept Funes as a moderate, the political climate in El Salvador does not lend itself to a strong leftward shift.

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Glinka had the virtue of being an ideologically neutral choice, but the lack of any words to his song meant it did not exactly lend itself to a morale-boosting singalong - hence the footballers' frustration.

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But their advantage does not lend itself well to being directly wielded.

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Sociology was not yet a discipline, but before the century was out, mass idealisation of this sort would lend itself to the scientific study of charisma and group psychology.

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