But for all their lack of youthful vigour, residents of Wittenberge tend not to be downbeat.
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The benefit of outbreeding might be explanation enough for the vigour of their offspring.
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But there is no reason why higher education cannot pursue outside funding with greater vigour.
Yet Mr Erdogan could call Mr Ocalan's bluff and pursue Kurdish reforms with greater vigour.
His campaign did not show the vigour needed to win media coverage for a third party.
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Sure enough, two strands of news emerged to give the bull market renewed vigour.
It may even choose someone with some vim and vigour, with a bent for reform.
America too may pursue a mooted free-trade area of the Americas with greater vigour.
Migrants usually help host-communities, bringing new skills, new vigour, demographic infill and fresh ideas.
Such sting operations may be dramatic, but sadly the courts are not matching the police's vigour.
Mr Obama's critics accused him of failing to support democrats and oppose theocrats with sufficient vigour.
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This similarity has not been lost on the Vermonters trying with renewed vigour to shut it down.
But recent events make it clear that many Latin Americans, doubting the vigour of their institutions, disagree.
Such clout and vigour persuaded Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the Daily Mail, to sponsor the 1908 Games.
Wakefield came out for the second-half with urgency and vigour as they attempted to reduce the deficit.
But thanks to the vigour of the new titans, it will stay above its 30-year average of 3.5%.
In sum, it is not yet clear whether Mr Obama will tackle the Middle East conundrum with renewed vigour.
Haunted by that memory, the Saudis pounced on the oil market with vigour.
When Microsoft feels vulnerable to competition it fights its corner with greater vigour.
In that field, certainly, Mr Zhu has re-energised flagging reforms with startling vigour.
"The stand-off over Kashmir should in our view have led to its application with very great vigour, " the politicians said.
He was an early advocate of privatisation, which in the West was pursued with vigour during the 1980s and 1990s.
As The Economist went to press, Mr Clinton, through the vigour of his denials, had clambered on to higher ground.
Her instincts, their instincts, were for a powerful brand of economic liberalism applied uniformly and with vigour across the United Kingdom.
And once a company loses its youthful vigour, it behoves the founder to leave, watch it suffer, then return as saviour.
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Barnsley started the second-half with vigour and inside the opening 60 seconds Jim O'Brien had tested the reflexes of De Vries.
So why were some Republicans angry with him, and why hasn't his boss, Mr Bush, backed the Cheney line with vigour?
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ran Mexico for seven decades until 2000, persecuted the church with varying vigour and imposed secularism.
Whatever Mr Kohl's vigour in helping to unite Germany and create Europe's single currency, his government is now tired and listless.
The MHC is also thought to act as a proxy for general outbreeding, with all the hybrid vigour that can bring.
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