But at least the president can try to improve the presentational aspects of his defence.

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The Conference was a concluding presentational event of the first stage of the Pilot Project.

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His strong presentational style and his ability to laugh at his own mistakes helped endure him to the British public.

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The email on which that allegation was based was not - as the Health Minister suggested last week - "presentational" advice.

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The lobby for crafting separate environmental measures that avoid monetary valuations has been bolstered by Eurostat's copious research money, and by Mr Keuning's impressive presentational skills.

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"The main character is introducing the people in his life in songs that have a presentational feel to them, " the show's composer and co-lyricist, Marc Shaiman, said.

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If Gen Petraeus wants major changes in this area as well, he will have to deploy his presentational skills on Capitol Hill once more, getting the United States to foot the bill.

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Mr Miliband's intellectual ability is widely admired but his presentational skills were questioned when he allowed himself to be photographed - at the height of the speculation over a potential coup - grinning and holding a banana.

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New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.

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