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Examples
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What a contrast this makes from the Treasury's kid-gloves approach to the City.
North Sea oil: Trading blows with Mr Osborne | Editorial 2011
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Given its reliance on lavish ceremony and kid-gloves treatment of Henry, the infrequently performed play seems transparently, expediently political, an example of early 17th-century spin.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII' Peter Marks 2010
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I will never understand the eagerness of some, such as Matthew Yglesias, to use the kid-gloves on such an individual. don Says:
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This crime is the only one with such an adjective, yet so many use kid-gloves when addressing solutions.
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This crime is the only one with such an adjective, yet so many use kid-gloves when addressing solutions.
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I will paraphrase it; if it is all right and proper to bomb and kill Muslims in a number of illegal or badly conceived wars, why must we treat them with kid-gloves at home? wrinkled weasel
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Would it not strengthen America's hand in bringing a faltering regime to the negotiating table by letting Tehran know in no uncertain terms that we have taken off the kid-gloves?
Allan Gerson: President Obama at the Crossroads: Freeing or Tying Up Iran's Opposition 2010
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That stance, in stark contrast to an international investigation blaming Pyongyang for the torpedo attack, reflects China's traditional kid-gloves approach to the isolated, impoverished and heavily armed dictatorship on its far eastern border.
China toughens stance toward North Korea, but doesn't back sanctions 2010
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(The recent Congressional kid-gloves Q&A sessions are not what I have in mind.)
Jacob M. Appel: Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise 2009
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If he kid-gloves her, then she's got something on him.
Feinstein Explains Her Reticence* About Panetta Nomination 2009
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