And the fact that many self-styled refugees are plainly not afflicted makes for harder hearts.
Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus - the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - is recognised only by Ankara.
But Hollande, the self-styled President Normal, is doing everything he can not to draw attention to himself.
Despite his self-styled affinity with Tony Blair, Mr Cameron has none of the former prime minister's messianic zeal.
Mourners, many clad in the red color of Mr. Chavez's self-styled "Bolivarian Revolution, " waved flags and sang chants.
Its new bugbear is the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), a self-styled civil-defence group.
Well they haven't gone public (yet), but I recall self-styled Bond girl Janes was driving a smart German marque.
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The firm is the brainchild of Cody Wilson, law student and self-styled crypto-anarchist.
Lee and much more filled the apartment of self-styled presidential historian Barry Landau.
Skeptics and self-styled consumer advocates seemed determined to find storm clouds hanging around in front of these silver linings.
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Elissa Fink, formerly the self-styled queen of Excel pivot tables, remembers the day she hit the wall with the spreadsheet.
Her 725, 000 Facebook followers are clamoring for more, more, more, begging recipes, childcare advice and workout tips from the self-styled guru.
Three men who helped self-styled "Lord" Edward Davenport mastermind a multi-million-pound fraud have been jailed for their part in the scam.
This was Britain's self-styled Camelot, an administration of politicians who really were convinced that they were the brightest and the best.
But as some self-styled martyrs are fanatics, still others are just crooks.
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Quiet-car "vigilantes, " as some railroad workers call the self-styled enforcers, step in.
FIFA's solution, implemented over the last two years, is to rely on four committees chaired by soccer outsiders making up a self-styled independent judiciary.
But Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Alliance's leader and self-styled president of Afghanistan, was sidelined, apparently under pressure from the American and German governments, among others.
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Lord Glasman - self-styled creator of the "Blue Labour" philosophy - made the claim at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool.
His self-styled journey of discovery included stories on endangered lemurs of Madagascar, dying Arabic-Swahili music styles in Tanzania and bungee jumping over the Zambezi River in Zambia.
Against that backdrop, most self-styled conservatives probably would be surprised to learn that in his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman opposed right-to-work laws.
Just last month, Calzaghe joined the elite list of great warriors from yesteryear to have fought at the iconic Madison Square Garden, boxing's self-styled mecca.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
Those attending the congress include prominent gypsy activists, singers and actors as well as the self-styled King of the Romanies, Florian Cioba, who is from Romania.
The self-styled Emerald City, which sits on a skinny isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington full of terrain obstructions, is normally a traffic sinkhole, anyway.
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Rolland's influence is denounced as pernicious by self-styled champions of wine's eccentricity, who think Rolland and Parker are engaged in what amounts to a campaign to homogenize flavor.
Jeff Jerome has been the self-styled keeper of the tradition.
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Extradited to Germany in late 1956, he served his jail term, and then faded into obscurity, eking out a living as a self-styled expressionist for his remaining thirty-two years.
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The previous FDA head, Andrew von Eschenbach, permitted self-styled whistleblowers to flout the agency's ethics rules by publicly contradicting agency policy and disparaging drugs and drug companies that they disliked.
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