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It both rose to the moment and transcended it: after days of noise and rancour, he carved out a moment of calm.

It was as if all the rancour of the mid-terms had been turned off like a switch.

Indeed, much of the BJP's rancour over his alleged giveaway was a bid to rally itself after a disappointing election.

Meanwhile, the two parties cranked up the rancour over health care, with each accusing the other of exploiting voter anger on the issue.

By the side of Victor Emmanuel every quarrel should be forgotten, all rancour departed.

Their desire to catch up by doing business with America and other former foes has helped dispel any lingering rancour.

For three decades it has been the subject of intense debate and rancour, preventing as many as 400 million births - mostly of baby girls.

But such rancour has largely been absent from discussion about President Barack Obama's response to the unfolding drama in the Arab world.

Far from adding star power, BillClinton has proved a source of rancour and controversy.

Americans often complain about the rancour in their political debate. President Obama is daily reviled, seldom mocked.

Despite this shift, Taiwanese politics has lost little of its rancour.

Either way, the bill has revived the rancour that long reigned between Rio and the rest of Brazil.

Partisan rancour could paralyse action on taxes and lead to a dramatic fiscal tightening.

What David Goldblatt describes as a "vast buzzing cacophony of rancour" is many fans' chance to air their opinion about the game they love.

An ability to raise contentious issues without rancour.

The profession itself is suffering from guilt and rancour.

Shed hate and rancour, they hurt you more than they do others.

This is a relationship steeped in historical rancour.

What did the makers of America believe about God and religion? The subject is stirring the very rancour they wanted to avoid