But its learning curve has been painfully long, its manners uncouth and its coalition partners loutish.

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Spurned by the British as a colonial, from an uncouth continent, he exacted the perfect revenge: he colonized their imagination.

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This obsession is socially uncouth, politically counterproductive and, too often, unwittingly revealing.

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And Lee took cast and crew to the Gobi Desert to film the scenes where Jen and the uncouth Lo meet and fall in love.

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About to go in for a prostate operation and in need of feminine comfort, Maurice makes the uncouth, slatternly young woman the nearest target for his seductions.

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Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and Banerjee have suffered even physical assaults by uncouth rivals, a remarkable pattern that reveals how high the odds are stacked against women politicians in India.

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In a fascinating paper published last year, Stanford law professor Bernard S. Black correlates market discounts for Russian firms with their tendency toward uncouth behavior (such as stripping assets or shafting minority shareholders).

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Younger workers are less likely than older ones to address uncouth behaviors through formal channels, preferring to handle it themselves, and are more likely to encourage their coworkers to seek out assistance from supervisors.

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"It was a little bit uncouth, " he said.

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Gee, who has taken heat previously for uncouth remarks, told members of the council that he negotiated with Notre Dame officials during his first term at Ohio State, which began more than two decades ago.

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