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Mr Brown is at pains to say that all this does not amount to a blank cheque for the banks.

No doubt many participants will be at pains to stress how much progress has been made over the past year in response to the AIG shock.

Although at pains to stress how happy he is at Ewood Park, Hughes did little to discourage such a suggestion yesterday.

But Australia also walks a fine line and will be at pains not to upset its largest trading partner.

Mr Shermer is aware of this risk, and is at pains to reassure readers that his conclusions apply to everyone, even himself.

He is also at pains to say it takes time "to understand each other" , part of the reason for ICBC's late arrival in the Middle East.

However, the judges were at pains to stress that their opinion only applied to Kosovo, and that it does not have relevance elsewhere.

But as Dr Shane is at pains to stress, researchers like him are by no means genetic fatalists.

And both publicly and privately, Chinese officials seemed at pains to emphasise just how differentiated those responsibilities should be.

Said is at pains to make a distinction, therefore, between truth and value.

Even now, Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, is at pains to portray his plans as evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

She was at pains to make sure that we all understood.

Beijing has been at pains to argue that the big state-owned companies are commercially driven organizations that are forging their own path.

That won't be easy, however, if the crime of which you're guilty is, simply, to be yourself: something you'd be at pains to alter.

Do more than others expect you to do and do it at pains.

It's not luckiness to get the best finally. Sometimes , you should be at pains to have the haphazard meeting.

Mr. Geithner has been at pains to argue that exchange rate reform is in China's own interest, and up to China to decide.

Lest he forget it, his hosts were at pains to remind him that China is now the US's creditor-in-chief.

This time around, officials seem at pains to convey that the currency may move down as well as up.

She was at pains to get him the things to eat that he liked.

Gibbs is at pains to repeat that the documents all date from 2009 and earlier.

They had been at pains to examine all the statistics.

The comments will embarrass Brown, who has been at pains to insist that other countries were adopting his "fiscal stimulus" plans.

There is an interesting point being made here: She is at pains to present herself as sexy, but has forgotten why she does that.

Company goal: Accomplish every project at pains, leaving no hidden trouble and set your heart at rest.

FSG's commitment, they have been at pains to reiterate, is to winning.

But its exiled leaders, as elsewhere in the Middle East, are at pains to promote a non-violent vision.

President Lee Myung-bak has been at pains to present an amicable face to foreign business since his election.

As rhetoric, his remarks were at pains to declare a bold new moral direction.

The Chinese government has been at pains to quash any criticism of its relief efforts in the Tibetan region.

Those engaged in the most effete of occupations, such as bond traders or barristers, are at pains to emphasise how arduous their jobs are.

Dalglish has been at pains to insist his No 1 is happy with life at Anfield but will move swiftly for the Republic of Ireland keeper.

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But the curators are at pains to stress that their focus is on the society that created the dictator.

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