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Exactly as he did during the campaign, McCain rushed in and made yet another foolish, politically motivated grand-stand.
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In fact, what Lieberman wants to do is just grand-stand ....
The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases 2010
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The republicans had no plan on actually giving equality to blacks, only grand-stand with words and speeches, and pretend that just saying someone is free makes everything alright.
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In fact, what Lieberman wants to do is just grand-stand....
The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases 2010
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My pet hate is meetings of Full Council: five hours of torpor in which councillors grand-stand to no purpose in the unrequited hope of being quoted in the local paper.
Is there a life after politics? Stephen Tall 2008
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My pet hate is meetings of Full Council: five hours of torpor in which councillors grand-stand to no purpose in the unrequited hope of being quoted in the local paper.
Archive 2008-04-01 Stephen Tall 2008
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On the other hand, you grand-stand and claim that people "have to make a conscious effort" to change their reality in order to match your ideology.
Taipei Times Channels Me Michael Turton 2009
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On the other hand, you grand-stand and claim that people "have to make a conscious effort" to change their reality in order to match your ideology.
Taipei Times Channels Me Michael Turton 2009
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The women strained their eyes in an endeavour to distinguish him, men kept theirs glued to Leonie who was riding straight and apparently making no effort to check the Devil, and policemen, forgetful of their dignity, their status, and their red turbans, hung over the rails near the grand-stand entrance with a riff-raff of taxi chauffeurs, pukka chauffeurs and syce.
Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest
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Another thing to be said against this grand-stand style of play is that these players sometimes miscalculate the direction or force of a hit just enough to lose it, whereas if they had run hard at first the ball would have been easily caught.
Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward
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