But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.
But the fact remains that Saddam Hussein could not have asked for a more pliable character than Hans Blix.
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Pliable though this sort of history must seem to purists, companies still cannot dodge difficult episodes in their pasts.
Right at the top it gets pliable with the heat - the heat at the top apparently gets hotter.
His journalists fear he will agree to leave the country if freed, leaving his empire to more pliable owners.
The four states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri make up the brass buckle on that tough but pliable leather belt.
Buy a bag that fits these dimensions and is not too heavy (a softer bag will be lighter and more pliable).
And besides, where else is Mr Bush going to find a chief law enforcement officer who is going to be equally pliable?
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And what that does is, it just makes the metal slightly pliable.
Donzelli, who also directs, plunges the couple into the bureaucratic vortex of the French medical establishment and shows it to be remarkably pliable.
Juno Temple, doll-frail, allows Dottie to teeter between the ingenuous and the knowing, while Church shows us a big man rendered pliable and powerless.
Aladeen insists on subservience from everyone, including his uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley), who has Aladeen kidnapped and replaces him with a pliable double (also played by Baron Cohen).
While fine for computers and other products, they are inflexible and cannot be easily wrapped around curved surfaces or pliable ones, making them hard to be used in the body.
According to tectonic theory, the surface of the Earth is made up of a patchwork of massive rigid plates, about 80km (50 miles) thick, which float in slow motion on top of the Earth's hot, pliable interior.
For a second, his expression was soft and pliable, like that of a child waking from a nap, but then his mind took over and something calcified in his features, his muscles hardening against the invasion of thought.
The card's a bit pliable, with rubberized edges -- one gets the feeling you might be able to snap it in half, if you really had your heart set on it, but as it stands, it should hold up to more than a few aggressive sitdowns on your billfold.
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