The king did his best to accentuate the positive in relations between Abraham's quarrelsome children.

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But is it possible to accentuate the positive, and reduce the inevitable negative, effect of sanctions?

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You know, you want to accentuate the positive, but you don't want to lie because they can find out.

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Yes these are off the highs of the day but the emphasis is very much to accentuate the positive.

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Awkwardly for those who like to accentuate the positive, some of the commonplaces of interfaith discussions are implicitly challenged by the vote.

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One has to accentuate the positive amongst all this gloom, however small.

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Diplomacy should not just accentuate the positive and ignore the negative.

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But Bush chose to accentuate the positive, noting favorable remarks about the concept of developing a missile defense by several nations, including Britain, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Spain.

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They have been intrigued to learn from the Russian media that despite his anger over missile defense and over Bush's appeal to the NATO members to give MAP status to Georgia and Ukraine, despite his shipping this week of "humanitarian supplies" to Serbs in Kosovo, Putin is planning to accentuate the positive in Bucharest.

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As with all such high-level diplomatic missions, he will doubtless be tempted to accentuate the few, putatively positive aspects of the Sino-American relationship, and gloss over the increasing number of negative ones.

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