Moreover, he has recently shown signs of exasperation with his 20-year pursuit of the middle way.
The sheer work of it, and lack of obvious clarity, calls for great patience and an ability to find the middle way.
His unflinchable Buddhist credo of always seeking the middle way and avoiding contentious decisions caused him to paper over the clash until it now threatens to consume him.
Mr Livingstone's private members' bill is expected to receive its second reading in the House of Commons in April - but it has been reported that the prime minister has become "attracted" to a proposal from the Middle Way group of MPs for an independent regulatory body for hunting.
Mr Whittingdale said giving event organisers a share in profits from resold tickets was the "middle way".
Pulled one way by Europe and another by Russia, Cyprus is stuck in the middle, uncertain of the way forward.
Over the long term, it has the opportunity, by the way, also to change the strategic landscape in the Middle East in a way that would be very helpful.
If they just got on with it then, apart from the money it would save the authorities not having to prosecute them, the goodwill (my middle name by the way) it would generate would go a long way to restoring trust in the financial system.
It's an interesting issue, it's always been a matter for free votes, as you know, my own particular position has been a minority one inside the Labour Party which is in favour of the so-called middle way option of better regulation at one of the options which was flagged up by the report of Lord Burns.
That's surrender to the same status quo that has hurt middle-class families and everybody who is striving to get into the middle class for way too long.
Penney, was disdaining the way Middle America likes to shop.
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Theories on just how the American crayfish found its way to the Middle East have reached urban legend status.
But Leicester have been nothing if not dogged over the years and just before the break Benjamin Kayser bullocked his way up the middle, Julien Dupuy went blind and Jordan Crane and Ben Kay sent the pacy Croft over in the corner.
This explains the meteoric rise of a new party (Yesh Atid) which said it would focus on the middle class and find a way so the ultra-Orthodox participate in burden-sharing by joining either the compulsory army or civilian form of mandatory service.
What if it turns out that the benefits that will fall to the middle class will put them way ahead of the game even if they were to contribute one trillion to the pot?
Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.
Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, our core mission is to grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.
But the response from the international community -- from Asia to Africa, from the United States, from Canada, from all of Latin America, from the Caribbean, from Europe, all the way to the Middle East -- this response, thanks to its swiftness, thanks to its size, was commensurate with the disaster.
Mr Blair said he had "misgivings" over the Israeli security fence but the only way of dealing with the Middle East situation was to sort out security issues.
They chose to get the slower 'medium' tyres out of the way in their middle stint and fit the faster 'super-soft' tyres for the final part of the race, as they were not sure if the softer tyres would last.
Looking at previous Opens here on TV, having watched film of Seve here in 1984, the key seems to be to get off to a steady start, score in the middle and keep it together on the way in.
They struggled to threaten the try-line and instead looked to their forwards to bulldoze their way through the middle.
It's a simple fact the more education you've got, the more likely you are to have a good job and work your way into the middle class.
It is critical that we continue the policies that are building an economy that works for the middle class as we dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession that began in December 2007.
The flights revealed by Mr Darling included one stopover on the way between the Afghan capital Kabul and Washington and others stopping on their way to destinations in the Middle East such as Amman in Jordan and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
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Complainants were split down the middle over the right way to stack wood.
As a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans pull themselves into the middle class in a way we haven't seen in nearly 50 years.
And if a currency board or (even more so) currency union should collapse, the harm would be such as to make the travails of middle-way Brazil seem hardly worth mentioning.
Regardless of how insignificant Norway is as a world player, it could distort the Western European perception of reality in South America in the same way it has done in the Middle East.
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Gun Fight by Professor Adam Winkler (full disclosure: a freebie) is intriguing in these partisan times, both because it is a very balanced, objective book and because the author makes the case for a middle way.
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