But it is not just the arrival of a less ardent European as Germany's new leader that has put a spanner in the Franco-German motor.
But behind the smile there is also an ardent unionist with a sophisticated political brain.
She is an ardent advocate for a slimmer administration, with power devolved to units closer to residents.
Having one character narrate a story to an ardent and beautiful soul mate is a tame and cozy device, but what we see is fascinating.
Neil Armstrong was an ardent adventurer and a reluctant hero.
She has become best known outside France for her ardent defence of a policy to cut the working week to 35 hours the second stage of which she has just introduced which has enraged many employers.
Dr Peter Maguire, deputy chairman of the BMA's Board of Science and an ardent campaigner for a ban on smoking in enclosed public places, said civil servants in Northern Ireland would now enjoy safer workplaces.
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Dovzhenko depicts such ardent figures as a crazed monk who looms over the embattled forests, maidens at their riverside rite, and two grandsons on divergent paths (an ineffectual nationalist and a rationalist revolutionary) with a spontaneous sympathy for their diverse forms of zealotry.
As we have seen in previous investigations, sports memorabilia is inundated with a morally bankrupt cast of characters who prey on the emotions and vulnerabilities of ardent fans who yearn for a connection with their childhood heroes and icons.
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The city is Detroit and the film, made by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (who is a native), is both an ardent love letter to past vitality and a grateful salute to those who remain in place.
You won't find a more ardent defender of stock options as pay for the rank and file than T.
There was, curiously enough, a large group of ardent Lewis supporters who had flown in from South Africa, and a very occasional cluster of Brits, but they were overwhelmingly outnumbered by Massa fans.
In Mr Izetbegovic, therefore, the western powers had their first experience of a dilemma that has since become commonplace: whether or not they should help create, and whether they could live with, a possibly ardent Muslim state.
The President wants -- is a strong and ardent believer in our capitalist system.
Such behaviour has cost Turkey some support among Jewish Americans formerly ardent supporters of Turkey as a moderate Muslim republic that is friendly to Israel.
Still, the dapper lawmaker has a core of ardent supporters.
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But Mr Hayworth's considerable flaws as a candidate did not diminish his supporters' enthusiasm, nor their ardent desire to see Mr McCain bought down a notch or two.
While we of course know that the Super Bowl will attract an enormous audience, we also feel a responsibility to our millions of ardent Downton Abbey fans who are caught up in the story and looking forward to a new episode on Sunday.
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His Movement for a Democratic Slovakia itself heads a rum coalition of ex-communists and ardent nationalists, financed by industrial barons who have amassed great riches thanks to a privatisation policy that, as in many other former Soviet-controlled lands, hugely favoured government-linked insiders.
Also, is there a chance that a complete overhaul can occur and the Dodgers become ardent disciples of statistical analyses and hire someone similar to Bill James as a senior advisor?
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For ardent believers, arms control is a superstition, impervious to evidence of its futility.
But it is led by a popular prime minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, a Lutheran priest and ardent football fan.
He has put this ardent attention at the center of a beautifully told and emotionally satisfying story for children and their movie-loving parents.
Even Mr Portman, an ardent free-trader, sounded a harsh note on China during an appearance before the Senate finance committee on April 21st.
President Chavez is an ardent promoter of the concept of a South American oil company, which could include the state-owned companies of Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.
From what she tells me, it is clear Kim Hyun-hui has gone from one-time true believer in the Kim cult to an ardent hatred of the regime and a deep sense of personal victimhood.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ardent as ever, calls in a group of journalists to make her pitch about the productive Congress -- and begins with a list of achievements (health care, Wall Street reform, stimulus, small business jobs act).
Perhaps Mr Kim, an ardent family man, does not want a family successor.
He snorted at the way that one ardent young campaigner, when informed of a fact or two, argued equally ardently in the opposite direction.
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