Which is why pretty much everyone believed it would be France - with its statist and interventionist penchant - which would blow up the transaction.
Winfrey, known for a feel-good message and penchant for self-improvement, used the final hour to teach one last lesson.
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But he was also a superb rider, winning a remarkable 191 races, including a record 42 stages in the Giro d'Italia, and he has lost nothing of his natural self-confidence and penchant for the sound-bite.
Those on a tight budget -- or with a penchant for roughing it -- can pitch a tent outside and use the facilities.
Yale psychology professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, an expert on depression, has studied our penchant for self-punishing rumination when we face a problem -- a tendency that many of us have indulged during the past eight months.
When you land in Beirut, rent a car - however you will need to be a competent, confident driver to handle the Lebanese penchant for white-knuckle driving without breaking a sweat.
He also seems to be developing other Jobs-like traits, including a penchant for pithy put-downs.
Former coach and general manager Isiah Thomas did more than cost the Knicks on-the-court with his penchant for doling out multi-million contracts to under-performers.
The release fittingly begins with "Just Impolite, " showcasing Plushgun's penchant for electro-pop and introspective narratives.
One question now may be whether Mr Lafleur and his followers develop a penchant for self-government.
Winn, whose penchant for self-promotion is detailed in another book, Dot Bomb, by company p.r. head J.
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Wiseman, the University of Toronto professor, said suburban homeowners relate to Ford's blunt style and penchant for penny-pinching.
Historically, South Korea is a conservative society, with a penchant for frontier-type justice.
The National Hockey League has a unique penchant for self-destructiveness in the way it conducts negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Instead of reining in his penchant for exaggeration--high even by the loose standards of our times--he indulged it, thereby raising questions about his character.
The penchant for military-style responses is stronger in those continental European countries (and their colonies) where a paramilitary gendarmerie backs up a civic constabulary.
The plate was a gag gift from some of Kadyrbayev's friends, meant to invoke his penchant for late-night partying rather than his political sentiments, Kadyrbayev's lawyer said last week.
Now with his third wife, he is a fitness fanatic, with a penchant for cross-country skiing and also pilots gliders, helicopters, light aircraft and larger jets, including the Boeing 747.
The report places the blame on "patchy network coverage, limited channel lineup, poor video quality, excessive prices and a penchant among high-end phone users for business handsets rather than video phones, " and we'd certainly have a tough time disagreeing.
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Mr Koizumi has a penchant for appointing private-sector folk to head up public institutions.
Unfortunately, their penchant for accumulating rainy-day funds was only reinforced by the tumult of the recession.
Mrs Gregoire's self-proclaimed penchant for bipartisanship faltered this spring when the legislature passed its budget.
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The appeal of the Duchess of Cambridge, a photogenic pin-up with a well-judged penchant for British designers.
He blamed the anti-incumbency factor, or the well-known penchant of voters to throw out governments every five years.
He shares the Labor Party's penchant for a government-dominated or "guided" economy.
Yet others come from the chancellor's penchant for changing recently-introduced measures.
The latter is caused by HTC's penchant for applying noise-reducing blur -- essentially melting neighboring areas of like color into one so as to reduce graininess.
When Dylan popped up in a bizarre lingerie ad, it seemed to be in large part just an impish provocation in tune with Dylan's well-known penchant for mischief.
You might think that a guy with a well-established penchant for blurting out things that brought the world down on his head would want to maintain minimum safe distance from a medium that at times seems to exist primarily to lull smart people into committing public acts of stupidity.
It also noticed that middle-class Africans had a penchant for products that project pride in African traditions.
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