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Reassuringly, at least in its relations with America, China for now seems to be guided more by pragmatism than by competition.

luke , sensing the jedi ' s ire , began to sniffle and obi - wan stroked his head reassuringly.

"Sure, " he said, reaching over and filling her cup with tea. "I'll help you. " She looked at him, and he laughed reassuringly.

But despite stepping out on the celebrity social circuit recently, Emma, from Oxford, said she remains reassuringly "normal" .

The movie, whose working title is the reassuringly prosaic 'Confucius', has no confirmed release date.

Thinking of dementors, Harry cast a look over his shoulder and grasped his wand reassuringly in his pocket.

For all its upheavals, there used to be something reassuringly ineluctable about the European Union.

I found it reassuringly seasonal, like the smell of oranges and pine needles.

He patted her reassuringly upon the shoulder, but Carrie felt how really futile had been her hopes.

And just as reassuringly, America is encouraging it in this.

There is, in that sense, something reassuringly familiar about Summerhill, once you get through the gates and behind the caricature.

If this came about, Estonia's politics would not just be stable, but reassuringly boring.

Reassuringly, India as an offshoring destination remains supreme when it comes to today's leaders.

Though an 'offshore' market, it was reassuringly familiar to Chinese fund managers and their clients alike.

The therapist says reassuringly that it is a natural to have such curiosity and such wishes.

Reassuringly, most captains prefer to take a few more.

Lately, the results of this "arm's length" banking model have looked reassuringly positive.

Amid head-spinning talk of trillion-dollar debt and credit-default swaps, old-fashioned farming seems reassuringly tangible.

On questions of policy, the views of the candidates were as reassuringly similar as their backgrounds were exhilaratingly different.

The others, reassuringly, correctly diagnosed migraine.

The reassuringly smooth lines on the graphs produced by climate modellers may not, as the sceptics have argued, be how things turn out.

The experience of Latin America after the economic crisis of 1998 shows that new democracies can be reassuringly resilient.

To German ears that sounds like reassuringly harsh punishment for Greece's fiddled accounts and profligacy.

Yet Time Warner Cable is reassuringly predictable, a fact it underlined with last week's dividend increase.

Yet, amid the strangeness, Tokyo remains reassuringly familiar.

The numbers may sound reassuringly low, large and colossal, respectively, but there is significant political sleight of hand at play here.

Some were reassuringly sensible things about risk and conduct of board meetings.

For the world's biggest economy, the US, the day of reckoning still seems reassuringly remote.

Snape can't prove it was you, said Ron reassuringly to Harry. What can he do?

Reality has proved reassuringly boring.

More reassuringly, Moody's, S&P and Fitch, the three major credit-rating agencies, all said France's rating was stable.

29 percent is a minority, but not a reassuringly small one, and other studies in the early 2000s came up with similar figures.

"We'll find them, " said Ginny reassuringly.

She heard the nervousness inhes voice, so she reassuringly said, "I'd love to. What do you want to do? "

His life is as reassuringly bland as his daily turkey-wrap lunch.

Ten years on, life in Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty seems reassuringly similar to the way it was under British colonial rule.