Her professionalism seems to be rubbing off more than her own idealism.

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Some people's good habits seem to be rubbing off on others.

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This is partly because Ms Dunwoody's huge popularity is rubbing off on her daughter, Tamsin, airlifted in from Wales to fight the seat for Labour.

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But the Street administration has been beset by corruption scandals and by its inability to curb a skyrocketing homicide rate, and some of that could be rubbing off on Brady.

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Obuchi's stroke in April and death on May 14 caused an outpouring of sympathy for him (more than he enjoyed while alive), but none of it is rubbing off on his successor.

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Uncle thought he was simply rubbing some grease off his fingers, but in reality he was soiling himself in the squalor and degradation of our captivity without him knowing it, or us intending it.

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Lady Antebellum debuted new song "Downtown" and Charles Kelley finished off the song by rubbing pregnant trio-mate Hillary Scott's belly.

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'Oh, well if that's your wish, ' the voice said, and the sand stirred and spun and scattered, and something brown and furry and fat came rolling out into the hole and the sand fell off it, and it sat there yawning and rubbing the ends of its eyes with its hands.

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