"Put it this way: I don't wanna call you crazy, because I don't know you well enough to call you crazy, " he said politely when asked about the strategy.

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Some drilling companies politely said they aren't joining the new coalition, either.

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The cleric said he asked "politely, " but the girl's angry reaction and some pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital, according to an account Monday in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.

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The state officials running the meeting listened politely but basically said it was a done deal.

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He got a letter back, politely explaining that a limit was a limit, he said.

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He said, correctly, that he was an ordinary chap, but he politely answered reporters' questions about his life.

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