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Mostly who have been on the receiving end of scathing remarks?

I cannot help but think unkindly of one who, faced with the rural women's predicaments and sufferings, is reciting poetry with total indifference.

In fact, a person has been much more "cynical and mean" than we are ― he is LU Xun.

And I should like to take this opportunity to express my wish that his motion be spared further acrimonious criticism from so many people.

[...] [...] officials made records of those Members who were particularly harsh in their words, we have been very much refined [...]

While the income of front-line workers has been adjusted downward to an almost pitiable level, the trucking cost in Hong Kong has not dropped considerably.

[...] [...] stars at the request of the purchaser, by emphasizing a thin luminescent material that will shine in the dark after [...]

Therefore, I can hardly agree if one is to say that civil servants are badly treated or that the Government has been harsh on them.

To put it in an even more adverse light, some will say that it is a hypocritical and self-serving political gimmick aimed at allaying internal and international criticism against Britain for offering back Hong Kong on a plate to a Chinese regime which is incapable of upholding human rights.

[...] sometimes vitriolic language of threats and vituperation attending the political talks, or lack of them, our economy, has been thumping along, creating new records and embarrassing all those who predicted economic downfall and disaster, should the talks falter [...]

If an elite outside is willing to take up the office, we have to praise him for his willingness to sacrifice his considerable remuneration and admire him for his bravery in facing up to almost deliberate provocation, caustic remarks and labelling.

Honduras would like to congratulate the Government of Monaco and its delegation for the holding of an important workshop with leading specialists in the fight against ocean acidification, an important topic of the international agenda for the conservation of marine species and the protection of oceans.

If even the Government fails to properly implement the so-called elderly policy, no wonder those monopolistic public organizations, particularly transport operators, are so mean to the elderly.

His boss told him that if he took a day off, he would have to pay $150 (which is $50 more than Uncle YIM's wages) to hire a substitute worker.

Why is the Government, with such a huge surplus, is still so mean to these some 16 000 contract staff who have been working so hard all these years to serve the public?

We look forward to a continued relationship with IGEL,” adds Garlock. “We’ve not only been impressed by their technology, but by the high quality of their customer service, which continues to exceed our expectations.

[...] whether he is considered as being mean in saying this, but he [...]

Nevertheless, there was not a word about Hamas and its actions in the one-sided, politicized draft resolutions submitted under the agenda item, just as those simple facts had been conspicuously absent from many of the vitriolic statements the Committee had heard.

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I hope that in the small hours of the night, when all the world is engulfed in silence, he could give a few thoughts to the group of people who began to fight for democracy in the twenties and thirties, now they are in their fifties.

It is a pity that these veterans in the manufacturing industry could do nothing but helplessly watch the amount of their own severance payments or long service payments being cut in various ways owing to restrictions imposed by the harsh legislation.