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The cynics will tell you that she is back on the campaign trail with an eye on her legacy and maybe even her political future.

But let me remind the cynics among you that it was this sort of public school training that made the British empire what it is today.

Cynics note that this gives the industry just two years before it begins to forget the stresses and resulting lessons of the past three.

Cynics might argue that the government didn't have much of a choice on either count, but the outcome is all that matters.

Cynics thought it was all a publicity stunt by the Virgin Group of companies and its flamboyant British boss, Sir Richard Branson.

Yet after the wave of secular uprisings, it is the cynics who seem out of touch, and the idealists have turned out to be the realists.

But they have now come far enough to be able to thumb their noses at the cynics.

Cynics would tell you that Chrysler's bankruptcy filing was designed to be a role model for the much larger GM filing.

Cynics might scoff at GE's unwieldy "-magination" suffix, but it seems to have some kind of hidden mojo.

There is, though, more to giving than this. Cynics say it is all about avoiding tax, but the wealthy have other ways to do that.

Cynics said even Bibi, famously tentative, would be hard put to backslide now that the president had publicly announced the accord.

As cynics pointed out, Mr Brown should appreciate the advantages of an identity capacious enough to allow a Scot to govern England.

An early sign of that, cynics say, is a decision to boot a Georgian-run Russian-language television channel off France's Eutelsat satellite.

Cynics tend to dismiss politicians who talk about "change" as old candidates dressed up in new clothes.

Cynics might see some of the tougher safety precautions as a drag, but it turns out they're actually designed to make you smile.

A belief in spiritual as well as physical evolution has sustained me in an optimism still unshaken by cynics.

The BBC 's Zoe Conway says cynics may say there is more than a bit of politics in the mix.

But the women who notice these contradictions are often afraid to speak them in case they should be labelled cynics.

It seems the cynics were right: last week a gay paper dug up a long-lost questionnaire from 1996 in which he strongly endorsed gay marriage.

Cynics might say that's a devolution, but in the dynamics of fame, reality is always illusive.

The romantics would call this a love story: the cynics would call it a tragedy.

In any case, cynics suspect the problem with QE is that there may never be a moment when central banks feel confident enough to unwind it.

Cynics will say we've lost our ways that the American century is at its end. But again, the cynics are wrong.

Cynics accused Hillary and me of grandstanding to increase our popularity among people who would otherwise oppose any tax increase.

What China cynics worry most about is not the growth potential of this vast country.

After all, in the long run no one remembers the cynics who undermine any brave initiative.

Cynics don't get anything done. Stop talking to people whose first response is always skeptical. They will crush you.

The cynics say that Israelis and Palestinians are too distrustful of each other, and too divided internally, to forge lasting peace.

Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers? be they cynics or romantics.

A howl of tortured love and the agony of betrayal, it should be avoided by emotional cynics and literary ascetics at all costs.

And perhaps those cynics had reasons to be smug, after Beckham moved on loan to Italian side AC Milan a couple of years later.

It has made cynics of the young. It has sacrificed our future at the altar of the shameless and the greedy.

Some cynics spoke of a marriage of convenience, others asked how she could possibly stay.

Cynics are even saying that members of the social elite are "voting with their feet" in a no confidence ballot over the country's future.

Meanwhile, cynics who have seen this kind of thing before repeat the old saw that you can rent an Afghan, but you can't buy him.

Cynics counter that the former general, who turned 60 this week, is unlikely to shed the dithering habits of a lifetime.

He became totally obsessed with the frugal lifestyle of the Cynics, taking the disowning of materialism to new heights.

Cynics will call it corny, but it offends no one. In this, it resembles Mr Huckabee's weekly television show on Fox News.

Cynics may wonder if the Big Four's focus on talent is only cyclical.

Cynics say it was issued to capture a share of the international black market from the dollar, for which the largest denomination is $100.

Looking reasonable, say cynics, is a ruse to discourage investment in shale reserves and alternative pipelines.

It also led cynics to question whether Timo Glock had deliberately slowed to assure Lewis Hamilton of the title.

Despite all the Uncle Cynics, people from all walks of life came forward to fight for the bill.

The cynics warn us that the collapse of our resolutions will only make us more vividly aware of our shortcomings.

Cynics out there would say and agnostics would say that's phenomenon that comes from a dying brain.

Cynics might interpret this as an effort to attract media attention, but who knows?

Of course, Republicans aren't the only cynics.

Cynics say 798 has become a misleading showcase for liberal expression in a country subject to stifling censorship.

Even die-hard cynics were won over by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's emotional comforting of the survivors.

There are plenty of bad things to be said about the Democrats, who have their fair share of cynics and careerists.

Cynics note that the police have shot almost 500 Jamaicans in the past two years.

But cynics also saw an echo of Mr Putin's first state-of-the-nation address as president in July 2000.

To cynics, the target sounded like airy rhetoric designed to fit the fashion for "sustainable business" .

Cynics can scoff at the product's bubblegum blandness , but that's precisely what's helped make HSM a global hit.

Even the cynics, though, are having a hard time explaining this latest twist in the tortuous peace process.

Cynics called Slovenia 'the poor man's Austria'.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant.

Cynics scoffed, repeating the conventional wisdom that sanctions don't work.

Cynics will dismiss Sir Rod's effort as just another in a long line of reports.

Today, the men and women in this plant are proving these cynics wrong.

Cynics think Mr Bayh was also worried about being beaten in November (though he was ahead in the polls).

Cynics believe Mr Bernanke is using this public relations outreach to ensure he is reappointed.

Greek philosopher, founder of the Cynics.

Cynics may dismiss them as little more than recruitment fairs.

Cynics say that all of this suits Ms. Merkel.

Why then, cynics may ask, are there so few Communist parties in power these days?

Most Westerners, even the most jaded cynics, still take an innately romantic view of love and marriage.

Cynics have pointed out that he has scored only one Premier League goal this season.

Cynics in Cairo hold that they have none, just business inclinations.

That is why we cannot be cynics , cannot complain that "it is irrevocable. "

Cynics assume the answer is no, but when the NBS roles out its new data set on Friday 15th, it will have a chance to prove them wrong.

The cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.

But on this January night - at this defining moment in history - you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do.

The other knock on combat photographers is that they are cynics who have no loyalties or values.

In the short-term, however, I vote with the cynics in Shanghai.

The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation.

Let's show the cynics and the special interests that we still can.

The unfairness in our society always makes the cynics grind their teeth .

One lesson, which may surprise cynics, is that humans are more peaceful than chimps.

Justice, say the cynics, is what the judge had for breakfast. Now they have proof.

Justice, say the cynics, is what the judge had for breakfast.

Often see other people's good; The cynics.

Cynics see the country as irredeemably corrupt.

There is plenty more in the 63-page report for cynics to scoff at: a "matrix" of client responsibilities;

Millions of critics and cynics who feel just like me

And the cynics were outraged