"We treat them as more important than our children," he said huffily.
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"The matter is China's internal affair," said a foreign-ministry spokesman, huffily.
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Some of his more nationalist Arab colleagues huffily insisted that he was speaking only for himself.
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The government huffily retorted that the steps it had taken were "within the prerogatives of an independent and sovereign state".
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A few seconds later, a blonde woman about my age huffily pushed by me, annoyed that she had to brush past my backpack.
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It was also not worth the cost of my dog's affection, as she huffily stomped into the next room as soon as she was free from torment.
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In a call with reporters on Monday, he revised his position in classic Biden style: a bit huffily, and in a way that implied his critics were actually wrong.
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His discoveries, he wrote, a bit huffily, so infuriated a "particular set of scholars" that they "derived pleasure in indulging in the most unparliamentary language" questioning the identity of Kapilavastu.
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It's Javier who can't stand the stop-and-start quality of the talk around the dining table and has to act out his displeasure, huffily getting up and making a performance of his dishwashing at the sink.
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Defiantly, the supreme commander didn't appear at the military briefing that day, September 26, 1944, but announced huffily that he was no longer interested in the situation in the East, where the whole front threatened to collapse.
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Kate was supposed to have shuttled Ethan and Ella over in the morning — an event Linda had looked forward to all week — but then huffily declined after Linda caveated that she could take them for only two hours instead of the entire day.
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Ms. Ringwald, in long red curls, gives a satisfactory if perhaps insufficiently feisty performance as the self-involved Aurora, who disapproves huffily of her 18-year-old daughter's decision to marry a local boy, Flap Horton (Denver Milord), and predicts that the marriage is doomed.
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But in the wake of Brexit — after a glum day of chorusing "I can't believe it!" and staring huffily out the window alongside my coworkers — the numbing shock was converted to action, thanks to a targeted Facebook ad from FVAP, urging me to cast my ballot this November.
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It was the best worst job I ever had, with days full of classic rock on a radio we were never permitted to turn off; mountains of back-issue comics to be sorted and vintage toys to be dusted/de-scummed; and colorful regulars like the guy from the band Counting Crows, who once huffily handed me his groceries and told me we needed to bring out his weekly order ASAP, because he had ice pops in the bags.
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Only people with good reason to be abroad could then travel through the city. Anyone outside at night without reason or permission was suspicious and potentially criminal. Allowances were usually made for people who had some social status on their side. Lord Fielding clearly expected to pass through London's streets untroubled at 1 am one night in 1641, and he quickly became piqued when his coach was stopped by the watch, shouting huffily that it was a 'disgrace' to stop someone of such high standing as he, and telling the constable in charge of the watch that he would box him on the ears if he did not let his coach carry on back to his house.
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It was therefore no surprise that she was intercepted by a patrol of the Gouda Free Corps near the Goejanverwellesluis in the hamlet of Bonrepas. The Princess was not harmed and she was soon allowed to return to Nijmegen, but the fact that her captors had been impolite (one of them sat unbidden at her dinner table, which was a serious breach of etiquette; another stood with a drawn sabre in her presence) caused great consternation and outrage. Especially her brother the Prussian king now lost his patience with the Patriots, and the Dutch in general, and demanded in a first ultimatum to the States General the immediate reinstatement of the Princess in The Hague, and the exemplary punishment of the culprits of the Lèse-majesté. The States of Holland were less than impressed and urged that the ultimatum would be huffily ignored.
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