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Ballard shunned the gossipy London literary circuit, preferring the company of a few close friends and family.

Israel did not send a representative and Hamas, shunned internationally as a terrorist organisation, was not invited.

Over time, he was sacked from his job, deserted by his wife and shunned by neighbors as the horn-like extensions covered most of his body.

But the bank's attempts to have Wikileaks shut down have brought exactly the sort of scrutiny that it had shunned.

Continental is the only major U. S. airline not charging for meals in coach and Southwest has shunned a la carte pricing, at least for now.

He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols , he avoided the sentinels.

As the animosity between the two girls escalated, Margarite felt shunned by an entire group of girls and was eating lunch by herself.

During the Cultural Revolution the sport was shunned due to its "bourgeois nature" , but it is now making something of a comeback.

At the airport, he found 'almost everybody' shunned and laughed at him secretly. 'I felt as if I had nothing on, ' he wrote.

He tried to hire a lawyer, he said, but lawyers shunned the case for fear of drawing the local government's wrath.

She was born in Independence, Kans. , the daughter of a Depression-era surgeon and a nurse who always shunned debt.

There are more unique types now, and what used to be a shunned job is now considered cool.

Noah shunned the Bucks by declining offers to work out for the team before the draft, and was selected by the Bulls at No.

His father soon died, his marriage broke up, he never got his degree and he was shunned by employers.

When he died in 1951 at the age of 88, she was shunned by his family and forbidden to attend his funeral.

For some days after that evening, Mr Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy.

He nourished it fearfully, and almost shunned the contemplation of it in earnest, lest facts should reveal the wildness of the dream.

Those investors who shunned the deal will find out whether their fears were warranted after the stock starts trading a week on Friday.

Dr. Johnson shunned tonight any discussion of the perplexed question of fate and free will.

JOURNALISM in Kyrgyzstan has long been a profession shunned by those who worry about their health.

To reassure them, China started to join the international organisations it had once shunned.

Indeed, if Mr Kim were minded to push ahead with the economic change that his father shunned, he would now be in a better position to do it.

This year America even appointed a special envoy to Myanmar, a country it had previously shunned.

He asserted that Ms. Bond had shown no care for his needs and was only concerned about money, and that his son had shunned him.

The janitor had spread the word about Kessler to the others on the floor, and they shunned him as a dirty old man.

Despite all the fuss, less favoured euro-zone borrowers have been far from shunned by the bond market.

My mother shunned him, or I'd like to think she did.

But China's rise also forces it to face up to an Asian identity it has always shunned.

The solid results and good news last week in the banking sector is causing investors who shunned Europe for most of the year to think again.

People who hold these beliefs tend to be viewed as eccentric at best, and are often ignored, shunned or discounted as incredible.

From the very beginning of his coaching career, Auriemma has shunned the convention that young women need a gentler hand.

Furthermore, our ancestors may have shunned change since life would have been challenging enough without risky experimentation.

Coconuts are no longer welcome, now shunned like the bubonic plague.

One reason why markets eventually shunned Greece, Portugal and Ireland was the uncertainty about how far their debts might rise.

A Bengali forced into marriage, she was jeered at as a paro, a term for female outsider in Haryana, and shunned.

Furthermore, as they were shunned, the defectors began to change their behaviour.

If I used a WYSIWYG editor once (maybe just to test colors? ) would I be shunned forever by all Web designers?

Yes, you read that right: Apple wants to patent a stylus, the very thing Steve Jobs famously shunned when he unveiled the original iPhone.

Once again Crytek has shunned the usual grimy sewers and sterile office buildings typical of shooter games for a jungle island setting.

One day, they are fired by their superior and ended up being shunned off by all the other major radio stations as well.

The breed requires moderation both in structure and presentation, and any exaggerations are to be shunned.

That the global financial crisis, the weather is like dust over the spinner, and is shunned.

Investors jumped back into the Treasury bond market as they shunned stocks for the safety of government debt.

China's relationsh­ ip with the shunned countries is laudable, at least they are being corralled in by China.

Mr. Kim also appointed his sister Kim Kyong Hui, who long shunned the spotlight, as a four-star general and to political posts in the party.

But even in this case, the depreciating currency will likely soon stop circulating as it will be shunned for the stronger currency.

US companies that became available to private equity in the first place were often shunned by the public markets and strategic investors.

Yet as the chaos in North Africa has grown over the past month, investors have largely shunned the dollar and sought shelter elsewhere.

The men had huge, bulging heads and puny bodies and were so ugly and repellent that they were shunned by everyone.

The U. S. military once shunned robots as obstacles to traditional soldiering.

Kim has shunned China-style economic reform, fearing, despite the prevailing evidence, that change could undermine Communist control.

Indeed, Al Jazeera, long shunned in the West, is finally being acknowledged as a force for openness, debate, and progress.

But for more than a century afterwards, the new tuber was widely considered poisonous and shunned as "the devil's apple" .

Since June, large pension funds and buy-side shops have shunned Italian debt, forcing Italy to offer even higher interest on its debt.

In places where a widow's status is linked to her husband, she may find herself suddenly shunned and isolated.

The dumbest person in the entire town, often shunned by the rest of the community.

Such people have typically shunned politics, seeing Egypt's stage-managed version as a waste of time.

On weekdays, the marmosets steered clear of the roar of traffic, and on Sundays they shunned the clamor of visiting crowds.

(CNN) -- Shunned by Western investors, economically ravaged Zimbabwe has turned its sights to the East to improve its finances.

Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.

Ever since the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925, evangelicals had shunned the national political scene.

Then down the hill, where she had briefly pushed a pram with other mothers who now shunned her.

Bullying of children with autism disorders most often occurs as teasing and name-calling, being shunned from activities and hitting.

Being introduced to the class, I bravely put on a smile and took my seat, expecting to be shunned.

we have shunned all the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient Republics.

They were more lethargic and less pleasure- seeking than normal mice. They also shunned their pups .

The nature of the epidemic lies in its hand behind the push to play a powerful business machine, the art of this shunned.

He finds that these funds have shunned banks' short-term offerings, fearing that their money might not be paid back.

The incident cost him confidence in the stock market and he shunned from investing in stocks for a long time afterwards.

This urge to find community is especially strong for gay people, who may be rejected by their families or shunned by their co-workers.

Since then, investors have shunned the securities, which has caused a severe credit crunch and delayed a recovery in the housing market.

He shunned meeting any of his friends.

But the street-level organisers who sustain the nationwide protests have shunned the meeting, as have prominent parties and dissidents.

I forgot all else, I shunned all the world, I gazed in rapt contemplation at the image I HAD set upon the altar.

He was shunned by his former friends.

When Pitt met Beane he discovered "a funny fucker, sharp as a knife" , who shunned the limelight.

If, if you and the factory director divorce, you not only regret lifetime, you're shunned happiness.

Balsillie gave as an example the multitude of online videos done in Flash software shunned by Apple and publicly ridiculed by .

She was shunned by her former friends after she went astray.

Even start-ups and smaller funds, which were shunned by many investors in the wake of the crisis, are benefiting.

In the agricultural heart of Vietnam, farmers and their wives face HIV often alone, shunned by their communities.

Ms Mi-Young said some may be sent to remote rural areas of South Korea shunned by foreign English teachers.

They continued with the mortgage refinancing, but after it was done, the clients shunned Ms. Georgaklis at church.

Many have shunned the offering, few have accepted it wholeheartedly and others have tasted and remain undecided.

Investors shunned riskier assets as equity and credit markets were hit hard in September, fuelling dollar gains.

Kim said some may be sent to remote rural areas of South Korea shunned by foreign English teachers.

Hu shunned his usual coat and tie at a meeting of the Central Committee this summer.

At first, Japan had a widely held reputation for shoddy exports, and their goods were shunned by international markets.

The Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and U. S. dollar were beneficiaries as investors shunned risk in search of safe havens.

Chinese journalists reporting on Cannes for state news organizations shunned the film.

He has shunned his enemies and persecution, freedom of exploring the seabed, the loneliness of their lives deeply grieved.

Biomass and mini power plants have been shunned by state energy companies.

Her childhood feeling of being shunned made her accommodating.

During his illness he shunned all society, and in particular those who had been his dearest.

Burned by risky lending in past crises, the banks had shunned toxic subprime-mortgage securities.

He was shunned in black intellectual circles but won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.

On the acquisition front, the firm has long shunned megadeals, preferring to swallow smaller firms with technology and people it covets.

Technology is favored by eight of our strategists and shunned by none.

In many societies, their languages, religions and cultural traditions are stigmatised and shunned.

A 2008 study by Paul Oyer of Stanford University found that Stanford MBAs disproportionately shunned Wall Street during a bear market.

Suelo may have shunned all the trappings of modern American life, but he is not an isolationist.

And he will be shunned by her angels, and Satan will have his dwelling in his body.

Toby's faced a lot of adversity, like being wrongly accused of murder and being shunned by society, but he's maintained good spirits.

TYPICAL USE: Duing his illness he shunned all society, and in particular those who had been his dearest friends.

Perhaps dieters are seeking out their shunned treats in regular nightly escapes.

Meanwhile, modern women shunned farm life, lured away by jobs and adventure in the city.

Voters decisively shunned ideology in favour of pragmatism.

They regard the ECFA as war by another means; a Trojan horse that Taiwan should have shunned.

He hated welding and shunned it. He felt bronze casts were too many steps removed from the real thing.

But unlike their Danish brethren they have been shunned by other parties.

In 10 years as prime minister, Blair shunned the single currency, backed Bush over Brussels and went to war in Iraq.

In earlier days, Charlie and I shunned capital-intensive businesses such as public utilities.

ICBC has been the most active of China's banks in pursuing overseas acquisitions, but largely shunned such high-profile deals.

In Calhoun's usual tone, it accused the North of aggression and shunned compromise.

Many of these are mortgage-backed securities, which investors have shunned as the housing crisis has deepened.

Given these shortcomings, Chinamight well be shunned by investors, but it is not.

Shunned by parents and weakened by demographic decline, Hauptschulen are dying a natural death.

He generally shunned the traps there were laid to allure him into discussion.

Prices for U. S. government debt rallied, while the dollar hit fresh four-year highs versus the euro as investors shunned risky assets.

When she became pregnant, Samantha, 39, shunned maternity smocks for stylish dresses in looser styles to accommodate her growing bump.

Until three decades ago, the country shunned capitalism.

Hayek found his ideas shunned by the academic world.

More surprisingly, the government has shunned any serious attempts at structural economic reform.

Saying you're "between opportunities" doesn't get you shunned at cocktail parties anymore.

Having shunned toxic assets, its four big banks look healthy.

Some patients were shunned by friends and relatives.

The males in my sample shunned figurative doodles altogether.

Escort agencies no longer offer work to Ms D'Addario who senses she has been shunned for breaking the code of discretion.

Communist chieftains shunned the people. Mr Yeltsin mixed with them, sharing their fury about the shortages and indignities of daily life.

They targeted firms such as MasterCard that shunned WikiLeaks after the transparency group began releasing secret diplomatic cables.

the current one, at Paro, is shunned by every national carrier except Bhutan's because of its terrifyinghilly approach.

A divorced woman was shunned and unlikely to marry again.

This very place the driver had specially shunned.

The Germans shunned Eurosceptics and the far right.

During his illness, he shunned all society.

Her father died of typhus in 1917, after treating patients his colleagues shunned.

Yep. Shunned i. f . you say anyth. ing considered "negative" .

He shunned tobacco, drank little and so attended to his health that at 45, he looked 35.

Many people shunned public transport because of its bad image, considering it unreliable, confusing and risky, he says.

families have shunned their loved ones for their sexuality.

Lacking his star quality, she has shunned the limelight.

The authorities not only shunned it but put up roadblocks.

The first point I'd like to make is that quick and dirty solutions shouldn't be shunned by the experienced programmer.

The gap, called a spread, has widened as risk-averse investors have shunned mortgage bonds, corporate debt and other kinds of debt.

When she and her baby went home, was she celebrated or shunned?

He was shunned by society.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

These 12- to 15-year-olds with red stickers quickly discover what it is like to be shunned.

So by giving a jazz CD, for example, the giver may be encouraging the recipient to enjoy something that was shunned before.

And in you I have found alonenessAnd the joy of being shunned and scorned.

This marks a big reversal from last year, when investors shunned this corner of the credit markets.

Hong Kong's transition to an industrial trading economy during this period was made possible only because it was a model that China shunned.

Right. Till I bought a blow dryer. Then I was shunned.

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day,

The thugs ruling North Korea lie and cheat for a living. But they can hardly be shunned

For years shunned by society