They might be the warmest people in the world, who would lavish on their adopted child the sort of palpable love advertised in greeting cards and on the collars of stuffed puppies.

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But the fact remains that without the sort of tough love that America alone can bestow, Israel will probably never be able to overcome its settler movement and make the deal that could win it acceptance in the Arab world.

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Though responsible for the sort of traditional media that bloggers love to mock including the business that has done more to drag down Viacom's growth than any other, radio Mr Moonves is unlikely to sit back and remain content with slow growth.

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That's the sort of stuff that we love.

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Clearly, these are the sort of phrases that Americans and their government love to hear.

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Since both inflation and the strong real are caused by growth, they are the sort of problems that many governments elsewhere would love to have.

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The housewife had not even had the lawyer's love of classical music, having never enjoyed music of any sort in the past.

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Rounded out by Nik Pfeifer on guitar and Brian Boesen on drums, Love in October is the sort of group that fans of Top 40 pop-punk have longed for.

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Every news organization would love to have access to the sort of document dumps Wikileaks gets, but no one relishes the thought of working with Julian Assange.

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When the American Film Institute released its list of cinema's greatest musicals this week, who'd have guessed they'd skip the sort of musical that really gets musicals the satires, the goofs, the shows that indicate a real love of form.

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