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It was audacious of him to try that.

TRYING to flog sovereign debt three days after the fall of a neighbouring president appears audacious.

It was audacious of him to tell me a downright lie.

The corners of her mouth voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an air of encouraging the audacious.

His heart thumped as he made this audacious declaration, that he almost choked in uttering it.

"Once upon a time, there was an ambitious young man who didn't read The Economist. The End, " read one particularly audacious ad from 2004.

But here an audacious experiment is about to try to replicate the cramped, claustrophobic conditions of a voyage across the Solar System.

It was an audacious if rather unwelcome entry: China officially recognizes only five religions, and Judaism isn't one of them.

Together, all this is in line with the company's audacious mission to "organise the world's information" .

He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes.

Of course, in a place like Dubai, this kind of audacious project goes relatively unnoticed, among the many others currently underway.

But it was original, audacious and exciting and a spot of wild implausibility did it no harm at all.

But this latest attack is even more audacious , right in the heart of one of the most heavily policed cities in the world.

"Janey! " said her mother; and Miss Archer blushed and tried to look audacious.

Now the president has won the first of those matches with an audacious checkmate snatched from a seemingly hopeless position.

The most audacious example of a targeted attack is thought to be an act of espionage rather than criminal activity.

Just take these past weeks. The insurgency has revived, culminating in a series of audacious and bloody attacks in the heart of Baghdad.

Given all that, how could such an audacious project get the go-ahead?

It sounds like an audacious, ridiculously ambitious project, but it isn't really.

Russia's Mediterranean plans pale in comparison with its audacious foray into the Arctic, the biggest recent story in the Russian media.

In fact, money was nothing to do with it. Button went to the last race in Abu Dhabi with the audacious deal tightly under wraps. . .

GEORGE BUSH has always been a gambler but this is his most audacious bet yet.

Many are even audacious enough to offer incorrect information about their competitors, assuming I ' m too stupid to know any better.

After we had waited for about twenty minutes, an audacious freshman came along and tried to get in at the head of our line.

It was a sunset that singularly fitted the scene, combining in audacious colour with the river's strength.

This dispirits those Democrats who yearned, after eight years of George Bush, for audacious change.

But Duan, based in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu, is working on an audacious project described as a "man-made sun" .

She was a designing, an audacious and an unscrupulous young person .

Mr McCain's next audacious move was his attempt to lead efforts in Congress to pass a financial rescue plan.

Indeed, if the European Central Bank were similarly audacious, the euro-zone might be better off today.

It is one of the most audacious engineering feats even in a part of China which excels at them.

A few months after Rio bought Alcan, BHP approached Rio with an audacious takeover bid worth some $135 billion.

On the contrary, he entertained millions of people around the world with a series of audacious and thrilling overtaking manoeuvres.

The dictionary tells us that to be bold means to be brave, daring, courageous, audacious, confident, brash, and self assured.

That was an audacious, almost silly-sounding statement for a child to make in the depressed world of 1941.

At a time when the average football fan's wages are stagnant, at best, throwing around such huge sums is audacious.

Yet even presidential candidates as audacious as Mr Obama find this strangely hard to say out loud before they are elected.

Liang, en route to his first ranking semi-final, had proved his undoubted talent and ability to take on audacious pots.

Not the primary colours of spring, brittle or delicate, the reds, yellows , and blues of audacious or self-effacing flowers.

But that audacious move set off what is now regarded as one of history's largest, fastest and most widespread migrations.

To Page , the only true failure is not attempting the audacious .

Turkish giants Fenerbahce are believed to be keeping a close eye on the Selecao ace and could launch an audacious bid.

For the audacious poet Walt Whitman, it was possible to explore other voices simply as himself. He embraced his multitudes.

It is audacious, disruptive and preposterous on the face of it.

Their beauty is in the unity of the simple and complex, the obvious and subtle, the audacious and demure .

THE most audacious move of the race so far is also, potentially, the most self-destructive.

Risking serious injury, the outfielder made an audacious leap against the concrete wall and caught the powerfully hit ball.

What's wrong with sharing your audacious goals with your closest friends and family?

" You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it, " cried David.

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In February 2007, a group of armed Tuaregs mounted an audacious attack on a military base in the Air Mountains. A new insurgency was born.

Good news now arrived from Tobruk, where the audacious and persistent enemy met their first definite rebuff.

Three weeks ago, a unit of the Seals performed an audacious, high-profile assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Attitude: active, responsible, cooperative, audacious, willingly bear the burden of hard works.

This auctioneer had attenuate hair and audacious eyes. he attired strangely and showed a funny attitude to attract her attention.

"This audacious website should be shut down immediately, " Manchin said.

Even when they're rifling through your bins, abducting your children or conducting audacious raids on privately owned pic-a-nic baskets.

One of the more audacious rumours doing the rounds was reported in the Sunday Mirror on 27 May.

But he may yet be able to impress them, if he can placate the one-time supporters who suspect that he has lost his audacious touch.

Check of yesterday celestial bodies, the doctor says my courage is very great, audacious , won't have what problem!

Then his audacious takeover attempt of Volkswagen collapsed under the weight of its debts.

In perhaps their most audacious act , Somali pirates have boarded a Ukrainian ship carrying arms .

The audacious radicalism of Gandhi's ideas is too often lost in the blandly universal reverence his name evokes.

And though Dimitar Berbatov may not arrive, United signalled their intent with their audacious bid for the Tottenham star.

The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here).

Audacious intellectual investors should now be sniffing around.

It's surmisable that researches on system criterion of citizen morality are an audacious attempt.

The pirates have become audacious lately, venturing out into deep waters to attack foreign ships.

In 1952, Buckminster Fuller presented a particularly audacious proposal for the Geoscope.

Google, Sony, CitiBank and even the CIA . . . they've all been victims of increasingly audacious cyber attacks.

Audacious timid around the world, can't do anything.

Average person not quite the color with too audacious venture, think or use white to compare safety.

That same year, Vivendi launched an audacious $34bn acquisition of Universal Music of the US.

This is an audacious agenda, but China, in particular, has the will and resources that make it feasible.

This should have enticing implications for investors and even for audacious governments.

Before dying, though, they wanted to attempt something grand and audacious.

The Taliban launched an audacious attack in the centre of Kabul, the Afghan capital, which security forces took 20 hours to quell.

Your plan of going abroad is an audacious decision.

For five minutes, ten minutes, an hour, it is gleefully fun, strikingly audacious.

Eg. He was known for risky tactics that ranged from audacious to outrageous.

You may be called upon to take audacious decisions.

An audacious genre reworking, They Came Back is philosophically rich and intensely, though subtly moving.

Ah yes, we start the bidding with the audacious former astronaut.

We have to take much more audacious steps.

This audacious Polish counterattack, called the battle of the river Bzura, created a crisis.

I admire those audacious warriors from childhood.

Stunning and verging on audacious, the five buildings were completed in the past year, in time for the Asian Games.

By mid-1944, a brilliant, audacious campaign by US submarines had cut off nearly all of Japan's imports of raw material and oil.

Why has Britain suddenly become audacious?

But audacious is what has happened many times before in history.

NLRB is playing an equally audacious role in pushing card-check.

The obvious thing to say is that most plans this audacious usually fail.

Her audacious attitude helped her win the contest.

The protectorate wAS so audacious AS to provoke its controlling state in a game of twisting the lion's tail.

The most audacious one I know was brought back from America by the artist Edward Burne-Jones to show his friend Lady Horner of Mells.

You been into some other audacious mischief when I wasn't around, like enough.

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Page urges his teams to believe in audacious ideas.

Its audacious bid for Equinox has just started.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

The Tarp rescue fund, at $700bn, was considered so audacious that Congress at first refused to authorise it.

Actually, it's because Korean society has become as audacious as him.

On Feb. 1, the software giant took its most audacious step yet, announcing an unsolicited $44. 6 billion bid for online rival Yahoo! (YHOO).

You won't be penalized for having audacious goals.

You are extremely audacious to steal a purse in broad daylight!

It is symbiotic, exploitative, audacious, and, at times, embarrassing.

While the football world is expecting Xabi Alonso to move to Real Madrid Manchester Cityare plotting an audacious bid of their own.

I grew more hardened and audacious than ever.

So really, this is a story about the audacious plans of young people with these dreams.

The over-prudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than the audacious.

Eg. He has made an audacious plan.

Her story is audacious, but really, is it that far off base from all our primal urges?

What release finally, the embrace: though we were wary -- it seemed so audacious --

First is about the planning of the first stage, which mainly demands for creativity and audacious reasonable concepts;

With sales last year of ¥ 586 billion, healthy profits and 770 stores in Japan and 70 overseas, his audacious aim is not absurd.

Tang Chen, the Most Audacious Thinker of Early