His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition. |
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He is a city-dweller, a Whitehall centralist, a natural meddler, an interventionist at home and abroad. |
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I was always the best meddler in the family, and in the class. |
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But the little meddler covers her tracks so well that I can never be sure. |
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Patiently initiate conversations and act as a conciliator, not a meddler. |
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The World Bank is viewed with suspicion by hardliners, who see it as a meddler in the affairs of developing countries and a purveyor of ideas that could undermine party rule in China. |
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Part meddler, part economic liberal: who is Nicolas Sarkozy? |
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In all of his budgets in these first three years, he has been a microeconomic meddler, tinkering around with an array of tax changes, some of which seemed to make little sense, others to make little difference. |
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Google, the Great Meddler in the cloud, asks why we would resist strapping cameras and televisions to our heads. |
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