Yet the pliable president's departure is unlikely to do serious damage to the government.
Right at the top it gets pliable with the heat - the heat at the top apparently gets hotter.
Pakistan suspects that Mr Vajpayee's offer is nothing more than a ploy to divide Kashmiris and co-opt the more pliable ones.
The Netanyahu government reportedly fears that Obama and his advisers have made such an issue of settlements because they seek to overthrow Israel's government and replace it with the more pliable Kadima party.
Politicians of all parties have been given notice that they cannot count on the police being as pliable as in the past.
But through British patronage it grew, creating for the colonialists a pliable tribal elite.
And what that does is, it just makes the metal slightly pliable.
In recent months, however, the Kremlin has found the Bush Administration extremely pliable on a variety of arms control issues especially where the Kremlin has made acceptance of its positions a prerequisite for progress.
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The United States is certainly said to have wanted someone weak and pliable to replace the troublesome Mr Annan, and Mr Ban was its choice (and China's).
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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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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.
The principle is that children should be reached while they are still fairly pliable and before they begin to take drugs not just the hard stuff but alcohol, marijuana and tobacco.
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The four states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri make up the brass buckle on that tough but pliable leather belt.
"The Muslim Brotherhood's judicial reform is not so much about reform any more but about creating a pliable system, " said Michael Hanna, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation.
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His journalists fear he will agree to leave the country if freed, leaving his empire to more pliable owners.
Donzelli, who also directs, plunges the couple into the bureaucratic vortex of the French medical establishment and shows it to be remarkably pliable.
If so, we will have to force public dollars to follow students down to any course or module level and figure out a way to make these different providers accountable, as it probably would be easier to put a true outcomes-based framework on these emergent and still-pliable disruptive innovations than to impose them on the rigid old system.
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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.
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.
But the fact remains that Saddam Hussein could not have asked for a more pliable character than Hans Blix.
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