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  • In a market where trades are conducted over electronic platforms, relationships built up over time with clients could play second fiddle to price.

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  • When he left power in 1998, it came about partly because Hariri was reluctant to play second fiddle to President Emile Lahoud, a former army chief.

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  • It shows that he is willing to put an intellectual in charge of an important issue. (Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, will play second fiddle to the university professor.) But it also shows that Mr Bush has a shrewd sense of how to use intellectuals to advance his agenda.

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  • Mr Kilroy-Silk looks at home in their company, seemingly happy to play second-fiddle to the UKIP leadership on the news conference platform.

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  • And so there is understandable tension in the currency market on Monday as investors swiftly conclude that recent squabbles over the role of private bondholders now seems to play second-fiddle to whether Greece wants any further part in an increasingly ugly game.

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  • Sarwan was content to play second fiddle and took 126 balls to reach his fifty.

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  • His thesis is that Europe's increasing friction with the U.S. is a natural outgrowth of the second-fiddle role the continent is destined to play in world affairs.

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