He was as punctilious about his honour, as fine a horseman and as deep in debt as any of them.

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The Germans and Scandinavians, notably punctilious in legal matters, are expected to hold out against any watering down of the court's statute.

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Williams was finally reported missing by a co-worker August 23, more than a week after the normally punctilious employee had last shown up at work.

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The North insists on punctilious observation by the other side of the small print of any agreement, yet will do whatever it can to flout its own obligations.

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Their coaching styles run the gamut from punctilious to playful.

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Which marks a tough moment for Sir Richard Wilson, who in January took over as head of the civil service and cabinet secretary from Sir Robin Butler, his punctilious, bewildered predecessor.

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It also had something neat and punctilious about it.

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You can never be too rich--or too punctilious.

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Many Arab governments, including Egypt's, had come to regard Salafism, with its focus on Sunni orthodoxy and punctilious personal piety, as a useful foil to the more politically engaged pan-Islamism of groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

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The members of the group, which includes an urbane young doctor, a vain and verbose prosecutor, a Gogol-esque clerk with a laptop computer, and a punctilious military officer standing guard, grow increasingly irritable as they slog through lonely and uninviting terrain.

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