The region will not turn away from Islam but remain piously conservative, probably misogynistic too.

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And yet agnosticism is the policy which Mr Kennedy seems almost piously to have embraced.

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Years ago, the government piously promised that federal aid to education would entail no regulations or intrusions.

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Mr Yilmaz's cabinet, it is true, does not contain, as its piously Islamist-led predecessor did, a bigamist minister.

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Despite their success, opposition parties then piously declared that it would be wrong to draw broader conclusions from the vote.

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But in the end, we all rather piously agreed that we should recommend not what was most expedient but what was right.

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But after his blazing start, he flailed, in the spell of sterile theories about color and composition, and of traditions too piously revered.

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Granted, back in the days when he did not realise what a cash-magnet he is, Mr Obama piously vowed to accept public funds if his opponent did.

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Many of the politicians in Washington, including President Obama during his State-of-the-Union address, piously tell us that there is no way to balance the budget without tax increases.

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The cruel reality is that the middle class goes to mass piously on Sundays and then does what middle classes do everywhere, namely ignore the teachings of the church and use the means of contraception that are available to them.

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