Iran may now be playing the same dangerous game of denial with a wink.
More charitable commentators tend to excuse Defoe's tactics with a wink and a nudge.
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In reaction, and with a wink from the army, antiguerrilla para-military groups have formed, further making the government appear weak and irrelevant.
Nor, he says, with a wink, will his fourth and last child, a long-awaited son born just four weeks ago.
By remaining inside the ABM Treaty, even with a wink and a nod, the U.S. would also be living a lie.
With a wink at fashion, Karl Lagerfeld included fur shoes, fur skirts, fur bags and even fur sunglasses in his Fendi collection.
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It helps that Bolt loves Earth, too, and does everything with a wink.
Instead, he played a coy game of denial with a wink and limited inspections apparently designed to give the impression that he had the weapons.
Not even the police blink when two heroin fiends push a refrigerator stolen moments before, with a wink from the victim's neighbour through midday traffic and past dozens of potential witnesses.
Long before Mr Edwards went on trial, Louisiana's politicians were assumed to greet anyone who tried to do business in the state with a wink and an upturned palm.
"The PRL's end is an easy target of parody, and we mainly talk about it with a wink of the eye, " says Mr. Gorski, who has also studied more serious history, such as Stalin's brutal imposition of communism on Poland.
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Some popular columnists, such as Sabah's Cengiz Candar and Mehmet Ali Birand, were not only sacked but, with a wink from the army's top brass, who disliked their liberal views on restive Kurds and alienated Islamists, were even attacked in articles in their own paper.
You may have sent introductory messages to only two people, and marked a few others with a wink a nonverbal expression of interest but Match will have hundreds of people in its database who have done a lot more on the site, and whose behavior yours seems to resemble.
They are a walking, talking, screaming moral hazard that's been in the American financial system for 70 years because they are exactly what I described - a private company that gets the benefit of any risks, but the government, for 70 years, has told the world - like you said, with a wink and a nudge - we're going to take care of them if anything bad happens.
Turkish officials simply go on renewing her old passport with a nod and a wink a practice, it seems, that is pretty widespread.
But that needs skilled staff of the type that used to fill even the lowest ranks of the Bank of England, famed for supervising with a nod and a wink.
"I always knew you were one of us, " an African-American friend told the senator with a nudge and wink.
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Complete with a doctrine that gives a cheeky wink to the Futurist manifesto - "We are enslaved to the Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades our privacy and forces us to ear Fast Foods" -- the organization today has spread to 80 countries, from Austria to Venezuela, with over 85, 000 members.
Afternoon tea is offered with a whisky-focused wink at the Prohibition era.
Lukewarm ratings may have some wary, but CBS continues to give a wink to guys with its first midseason replacement.
There is a very busy lobby scene, with the thumping, DJ-hosted Wink Bar and three restaurants that cater to an upscale local crowd as well as hotel guests.
We've followed up with Sony for more, but don't expect to hear much beyond a wink and a smile.
To do otherwise would be to give an unmistakable wink of approval to a number of allied capitals who would treat with Tehran and Baghdad tomorrow as full commercial partner if given the opportunity.
Clinique says Chubby Sticks, with color names like "Mega Melon" and "Chunky Cherry, " aim to add "a wink and a smile" to makeup application.
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