He was so unthreatening to American values that, in 1984, George Will went to see him.
As important, Mr. Ryan can make his case in a reasonable and unthreatening way.
They hoped that by presenting Redmond as unthreatening, he would become an acceptable alternative to Serna.
Despite a poor kicking day for Dan Carter, four tries were enough to see off largely unthreatening opposition.
The USSR believes it must maintain a militarily unthreatening buffer zone in littoral states, particularly to its west.
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So the answer was not strident or confrontational, but an attempt to sound unthreatening, a little humble even.
Not all of them will be as unthreatening to human health as foot-and-mouth.
Amiable but stiff, he comes across as soft and unthreatening--which may be exactly why he is still China's leader.
But they had a third reason to switch to the centre-right: a bright, attractive, young, united and, above all, unthreatening opposition.
Yes, I know the call for black-brown brotherhood sounds entirely unthreatening.
With or without campus jargon, the annoyingly unfair fact is that marriageable men tend to like women who are young, fertile and intellectually unthreatening.
The current series, against an unthreatening Bangladesh attack on friendly batting surfaces, would have been the ideal opportunity to play himself back into form.
But the image that it would like to cultivate, as a responsible, unthreatening, emergent superpower, is constantly being undercut by two of its leaders' habits.
And in our relentless search for another message, and another, that unthreatening and controlled environment of the text message, we end up treating others as things.
Fisichella would provide a competitive but unthreatening foil for Alonso, having already been overshadowed by the Spaniard at Renault during his championship-winning seasons in 2005 and 2006.
But with those now pinched by the recession, and with foreign direct investment also down, the unthreatening overtures of the ADB may be the best near-term hope.
Those kinds of events are soft in tone and unthreatening.
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Mr Bastrykin lacked expertise in investigation but knew Mr Putin from law school in St Petersburg traits that gave him the air of a man who is unthreatening and loyal.
Ronald Reagan's put-down of Jimmy Carter in 1979, "There you go again", encapsulated the feelings of many that the incumbent was a bit wordy and long-winded, and allowed Reagan to appear sharp and unthreatening.
Allen has a relatively low-key, thoughtful and unthreatening demeanor.
The gargantuan Irfan continued to have difficulties: with his fielding, with his bowling - which despite his great height was again wicketless and largely unthreatening - and then to cap it all, with his fitness.
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If Mr Chavez picked someone similar, to offset his own unpredictability, they say, he might calm jittery foreign investors, even while meeting some of his supporters' reasonable demands and calming their wilder ones with populist, but unthreatening, gestures.
As for other important states, in Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul close allies of Mr Cardoso face difficult run-offs against awkward opponents, while Rio de Janeiro's next governor looks likely to be Anthony Garotinho, an unthreatening foe.
It was curious to read a Frenchman writing about America when America was small, unthreatening, and admirable, when it was still something underappreciated that the French could claim as their own and champion, like serial music or the novels of John Fante.
He wants you to see them not as a party of nice, worthy, unthreatening people who "want to stop the world and get off" but as a party that looks and sounds like a party of power - a party that matters enough to make people angry.
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