But Russia's new attitude could also spring from a realisation that the world really is changing.
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We have to come to the rink with a new attitude and get through this.
It was surreal, different and amazing and he created a whole new attitude towards humour.
But not all of the new attitude is brash and self-mocking, insist market researchers.
Dr Frisoni speculates that the illness is causing people to develop a new attitude towards novel experiences.
The Palestinians, meanwhile, called for a new attitude on the part of whoever leads the Jewish state.
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If we change the words, maybe it will be the start of a new attitude towards people with disabilities.
In the late 1990s, we're seeing new teens with a whole new attitude.
Minor said he brought a new attitude to camp this year and that his struggles aren't getting to him.
There are signs of a new attitude emanating from Cupertino, extending across Apple's relationship management of customers and competitors.
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It may be that this new attitude reflects the same sort of tipping point-calculation that is at work among Iraqis.
His decision to open Los Pinos, the presidential palace, to visitors, is a small but potent symbol of the new attitude.
This new African maturity demands a new attitude from the rich world.
Far from being a new attitude, the concept of replacing government initiatives on poverty in favour of churches and charities is a well-tested model.
And according to many Dems, he's got new attitude, new energy.
Even some supervisors have been reluctant to accept his new attitude.
The deputy director of Jubilee 2000, Adrian Lovett, says he is encouraged by the new attitude, but that Western government and the IMF are still dragging their feet.
One of the really inspiring things about the new government was an apparent new attitude toward the War on Drugs, which both Clegg and Cameron had called a failure.
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What we require is a bold new attitude and a sense of humility that accepts the ambiguity of many of our so-called truths, habitual thought patterns and cultural reality tunnels.
Compassionate conservatism is essentially a new attitude towards poverty.
In Tina Brown era, supposedly the dawn of a new attitude, Newsweek has gyrated through a series of increasingly embarrassing attempts to goose its traffic by trying on different attitudes like cheap suits.
Armed with this new attitude, women pushed men off their pedestal (women had their own pedestal, but feminists convinced them otherwise) and climbed up to take what they were taught to believe was rightfully theirs.
However, the point that the speakers made was that the company only saw this as good PR rather than a formal channel of support, and more so, a new attitude on reaching out to customers to support them.
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On the union side, a new attitude of collaboration, working with management to grow the business to benefit everyone, is also something the panel, which also included Sports Illustrated legal analyst Mike McCann and NBA analyst Tom Penn of ESPN, would love to see.
So does that mean the new Tory attitude to devolution will see the party support the government's new Bill?
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Dimon too has responded in Chicago-style fashion, donning a new populist attitude last week.
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The PM's new strict attitude towards foreign travel is revealed in documents obtained by the BBC from his office.
If anyone thinks Mr Bush is not responsible for foreign policy, whether the general approach to China or North Korea, the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq or the new American attitude toward Europe, they are wrong, argue Messrs Daalder and Lindsay.
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