Indeed, one of the reasons for the energetic trade policy push in 2011 is that the political environment next year is expected to be less hospitable to trade initiatives.

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But the detail about Captain Jones giving all the credit to the Lord, while a small thing, suggests a writer interested in human stories, watching, remembering, and sticking around long enough to be generally hospitable to otherness.

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You also lobby the university -- as Sotomayor did at Princeton -- to be more accessible and hospitable to people like you by hiring Latino professors, reflecting the Latino experience in the curriculum and providing a support system for Latino students as opposed to admitting them and forgetting them.

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Government's task should be to create a stable, hospitable environment for economic activities--allowing businesses to be businesses and entrepreneurs to take risks and invest in job creation.

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When replacement is cost-prohibitive or impractical, the culvert might be made more hospitable to fish and the streambed more resistant to flood damage by installing large boulders to create a step-like structure in the stream at the downstream end of the culvert, said Michelle Brown, an Adirondack Nature Conservancy biologist.

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Let's pray to God that will change and I can be hospitable.

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"Many areas that used to be considered 'fringe' have become hot and hospitable for retail and restaurants, " said restaurant consultant Michael Whiteman.

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Subtlety seems to be lost on Madison Avenue, where advertisers have no compunction telling customers to Just Do It, Get Out There, Be Hospitable, Live Richly or Think Different.

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Regulators should be hostile to rent-seeking by the established, and hospitable to the companies whose names we do not know.

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