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She is positively hedgehog-like in her reifying of fox-like strategic expediency to reach her ends; Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem chief secretary to the treasury, signed off on the health reforms because he thought that was what he should do, but he is now opposed to the health reforms because that is now what his party has decided he should do.

Inside politics: Suddenly David Cameron's cabinet is looking rather foxy | Allegra Stratton 2011

Over 100 pavilions have been created, ranging from the UK's bizarre hedgehog-like structure to Mexico's sea of kites.

Shanghai World Expo 2010 Pavilion PHOTOS: See The 25 Best Nicholas Sabloff 2010

Over 100 pavilions have been created, ranging from the UK's bizarre hedgehog-like structure to Mexico's sea of kites.

Shanghai World Expo 2010 Pavilion PHOTOS: See The 25 Best 2010

Management books such as Good to Great chronicle the importance of a tenacious, hedgehog-like dedication to perfection in a single domain as the key to creating a profitable and enduring company.

From a War on Terror to a World at Peace 2006

But the voice was that of a robot - a clumsy, unmanned complex of machinery within a hedgehog-like agglomeration of receiving antennas.

The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

No less than three sections of Cactuses, viz., the above, Echinocactus, and Echinocereus, owe their names to their hedgehog-like stems.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

The chestnuts are never better than after harvest, when they are heavy-laden with their pale green hedgehog-like fruit and alive with people swarming among their branches, pruning them while the leaves are still good winter food for cattle.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

The first is a burrowing and aquatic creature, specialised in a thousand minute ways for his amphibious life and queer subterranean habits; the second is a spiny hedgehog-like nocturnal prowler, who buries himself in the earth during the day, and lives by night on insects which he licks up greedily with his long ribbon-like tongue.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Damon Galgut's superb new book, In a Strange Room, is about as hedgehog-like as a work of fiction can be.

Culture | guardian.co.uk 2010

The Republicans have a hedgehog-like focus on that one big thing.

Forbes.com: News leesheppard 2010