• The grandiose Barack Obama was the personification of that attitude, if not a caricature of it.

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  • Forget the grandiose paper plans projecting long-run spending reductions from changes to entitlement programs.

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  • According to founding partner Lyndon Neri, the South Bund provides a much-needed alternative to the grandiose environs of the old Bund.

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  • Still, some students are upset they will miss out on the grandiose day.

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  • The grandiose experiment in the Gulf could be enough to flatten it entirely.

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  • Left to himself, Mr Smith would have cancelled the grandiose Millennium Exhibition at Greenwich bequeathed him by the Tories.

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  • They will continue issuing the grandiose National Policy Statements, but would subject each one to a review by Parliament: vital, they say, to protect democratic oversight.

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  • Mr Nourbakhsh claims that the money will be spent neither on pre-election handouts nor on the grandiose industrial projects that have been a weakness of some previous governments.

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  • The grandiose property features a Champagne and caviar lounge with live entertainment, a spa and marble hammam and restored ballrooms once frequented by Elizabeth Taylor, the Beatles and Oscar Wilde.

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  • Meaning: Keep the cash machine going and rein in the grandiose visions of the investment banking side that seem to get Merrill into peril every seven years or so (see time line below).

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  • He is stuck, however, with the grandiose requirements of the Potter franchise, which deems that every installment should rise to a final joust between good and evil, whether we like it or not.

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  • Sandwiched on the Strip between two Steve Wynn-built casinos, the Mirage and Bellagio, Caesars Palace somehow lacks the grandiose aura it deserves for having singlehandedly invented the high-roller market in Las Vegas when it opened 36 years ago.

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  • There also are outposts in Russia, Turkey, and Israel, where Tel Aviv was dubbed the White City for its 4, 000 Bauhaus buildings. (One owned by Ronald Lauder opened as a Bauhaus museum in 2008.) The vast gulf between Tel Aviv's modest white homes and the grandiose glass Seagram tower bears witness to the staggering mix of Bauhaus influences.

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  • When Nicholas Negroponte, a tech guru at the celebrated Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the initiative in 2005, the vision was grandiose, but the implementation seemed beguilingly simple.

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  • It merely increases confidence and induces the more grandiose errors that overconfidence can feed.

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  • The result sounds as grandiose and delicate as the world it describes.

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  • He has spent most of his time trying to undo the damage caused by Nasser's grandiose strategy for turning the automaker into an Internet-oriented consumer company.

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  • Farther down the mountain, at Barisakho, stands a warning to grandiose plans in the forbidding Caucasus terrain.

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  • What confers an extraordinary value on the Sierra Nevada, in addition to its grandiose landscapes, are the numerous unique and endemic species of flora found in this area.

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  • So it is with the citizens' initiative, an idea adopted in the final days of a grandiose convention drawing up what was then called an EU constitution (becoming the Lisbon treaty after many misadventures).

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  • Indonesians have known about the empty stadiums and grandiose governors' mansions for a while.

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  • Mastodon, which came together in Atlanta during metal's commercially lean years, unapologetically embrace the genre's grandiose beginnings.

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  • Back among the wide boulevards and grandiose monuments of easy-going Yerevan, a bumper crop of museums are on hand to provide a crash course in Armenian culture.

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  • The centerpiece is a grandiose Ritual Hall, which has hosted traditional coming-of-age ceremonies, weddings, New Years festivities and birthdays for local villagers and Shanghai residents, using ancient costumes and rites.

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  • Often referred to as the jewel of the Caribbean for its grandiose colonial architecture, blue waters and sun drenched squares, Cartagena in Colombia combines old school elegance with a vibrant Latin soul.

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  • The result is a uniquely grandiose, profoundly affecting brand of art-rock that sounds entirely contemporary, but also hearkens back to the golden eras of Dylan, Springsteen, David Byrne and Kate Bush, among others.

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  • In the mid-1980s Francis had commissioned a grandiose headquarters near Paris that was modelled on the Palace of Versailles.

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  • The European Union's leaders met at a grandiose ceremony in Rome on Friday to sign the new constitution for the European Union.

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  • In historic Sultanahmet, where the Ottoman sultans sought to outdo each other with grandiose building programs, muezzins at each of the imperial mosque complexes give their vocal chords a vigorous morning workout, prompting the faithful to their prayers and hotel guests to their breakfast.

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  • Skyrim is a mature creative work by the very nature of its grandiose aesthetics.

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