Turkey's pious producers like the bits in the Koran that favour honest trading.

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Meanwhile, the only overtly Islamist party, Saadet, which had previously been nibbling away at AK's pious base, is riven by internal squabbles.

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William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).

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The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.

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Janeway's tales of the brave and pious deaths of thirteen Christian boys and girls were nothing if not heartrending.

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The pious hope of this newspaper that America's president might fill the gap was confounded too (see article).

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So in the infamous words of the GOP's beloved Newt Gingrich: Spare me the pious baloney.

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Most of his roles embody pious self-righteousness, and that made watching Washington's searing portrayal of evil incarnate particularly satisfying.

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That package, which among other things makes it possible to prosecute Turkey's meddlesome generals in civilian courts, was approved by 58% of Turks, many of them pious MHP voters.

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The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.

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